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Kelefesia, Ha’apai Group
If your idea of paradise is anchoring off a deserted island with palm trees and white sands, then look no further than the Ha’apai Islands in Tonga. Most yachts choose…
Jonty Pearce: Doing the Prop Walk
Our Southerly 105 ketch is a heavy old girl with high freeboard, a raised cabin, and lots of rigging to catch the wind. Her 1 ton triangular cast iron keel…
Jonty Pearce: Brexit
So, the die is cast and the country has voted to leave the EU. After months of media hype and disinformation I had naively hoped that after the event we…
Libby Purves August 2016 Podcast
It was a particularly vile, early-season shakedown passage to Ostend. We crossed a North Sea which threw up its trademark jerky, irregular grey-brown chop: we hammered hard on the wind…
Tom Cunliffe Summer 2016 Podcast
Life used to be so simple, didn’t it! It wasn’t all roses though. Back in the days before the general comforts of electronics, I had a few bad trips in…
Dick Durham Summer 2016 Podcast
A tiny screw nestling in a part of my engine has defeated all my passage plans. By now I should be bowling northwards with the wheel’s kick and the wind’s…
Summer 2016
What’s inside your Summer 2016 issue? Expert On Board: New advice that could save your life There’s a problem with jackstays, but simple changes could keep you safe Skipper’s…
USED BOAT: Westerly Centaur
Westerly Centaur review See the January 2013 issue of Yachting Monthly for the full test What’s she like to sail? She’s not the most close-winded of boats and weather helm…
Jonty Pearce: Boaty McBoatface
I doubt that the Natural Environment Research Council realised what a furore they would raise when they decided to hold a national vote to find a name their new £200m…