Monach Islands, off North Uist: a Scottish paradise

The anchorages around the Monach Islands in the Outer Hebrides offer total isolation for the intrepid sailor, as Jonty Pearce discovers

Reducing condensation on your boat

Yachting Monthly reader Mike Watts considers how to keep condensation at bay on your boat over the cold winter months

Installed properly, your diesel heater will last for years, but done badly, it could prove fatal. Theo Stocker discovers the difference

Duncan Kent examines the implications of switching from red to white diesel and what you can do to avoid fuel contamination

Theo Stocker turns up the heat with a test of one of the new generation diesel heaters - the Eberspacher S2 D2L

If successful, Katie, 14, could take the mantle from Timothy Long of being the youngest person to sail solo around Britain

Getting to grips with a few skills and checking your boat carefully will give you a more enjoyable yacht charter holiday, says Toby Heppell

The Sebago Portland Tumbled is a twist on the US shoe brand's classic deck shoe but does it live up to the much loved original? We put a pair to…

The RNLI has said it will continue to rescue people at sea, regardless of how they came to be in the water

Barry Pickthall considers the best options for communications at sea where even the most modern boat might look to old technology for answers