If you're anchored next to an obstruction, you can set your bower anchor and kedge to make sure you don't swing more than two boatlengths, says Duncan Wells
Yachting Monthly
London Boat Show offers chance to get afloat
The 2016 London Boat Show will offer visitors the chance to get afloat on the 'Mediterranean Bay' to try out new kit and techniques
Phil Sharp sets Length of Britain sailing record
Jersey's Vendée Globe hopeful Phil Sharp and his crew raced from Land's End to John O'Groats in just under 84 hours, setting the inaugural record
Jonty Pearce: An Ex Purt
As our experience and sailing skills grow, sailors may become at risk of considering themselves experts. Indeed, those of us foolhardy enough to dare to put pen to paper are…
20-year plan for River Thames improvements
The Port of London Authority has unveiled an ambitious plan to develop use of the Thames, including improvements to navigation
Marine Conservation Zones consultation open in Northern Ireland
Sailors are being encouraged to express their views on four Northern Irish sites that have been nominated to become protected Marine Conservation Zones
January 2016
See what's inside the January 2016 issue of Yachting Monthly
Land’s End to John O’Groats record attempted for first time
Jersey-based offhsore sailor Phil Sharp, who won his class in the Solo Route du Rhum race in 2006, has set off from Falmouth today aiming to set a benchmark sailing…
An expert’s guide to stern to mooring
If you charter in the Med, you’ll find yourself mooring stern to. Theo Stocker finds out how from Barrie Neilson
How to plan and sail a passage round a headland
James Stevens stands by as Yachtmaster Coastal Laura McLachlan attempts to plan, sail and skipper her first passage round a headland