Special Features

• Win a £1,500 liferaft
  
  Enter our easy competition and this prize could be yours

• Marina rip-off?
  
  James Jermain investigates price differences from the Solent to Scotland – and on the other side of the Channel

• Eastward ho!
  
  Maurice Griffiths’s last yacht, Kylix, goes home to the East Coast with her new owner

• Fitting out special
  
  Twelve jobs you should do before launching
  
  

  Save your mast: James Jermain calls in an expert
  
  

  Seacocks/through-hulls – ignore them at your peril
  
  

  Electrical health check – Nigel Calder’s DC diagnosis
  
  

  Striptease – Paul Gelder checks out four ways to strip off seven years of antifouling

• Spring reading
  
  Dominic Byers leafs through some new titles

• Inside story
  
  James Jermain talks to designer Jonty Sherwill about the shaping of a yacht’s interior design

• Helford River
  
  The crowning glory of a West Country cruise. Miles Kendall surrenders to the timeless joys of the Helford River. Plus, your free Destinations pull-out chart

• Charting Chile
  
  Miles Hordern stumbles on an undiscovered island in the Patagonian wilderness aboard his 28ft Twister

• Earl’s Court encore
  
  YM’s team of experts picks the best of the rest of the new gear at the London Boat Show

• Sails for running
  
  In Part XVI of Sailpower, Peter Nielsen considers the options for downwind sailing

• The shower scene
  
  Tom Cunliffe grabs his loofah and says it with showers

• Aussie rules
  
  Duncan Kent charters a catamaran on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and encounters turtles, stingrays and kangaroos in the Whitsunday Islands

• On test: Catalina 310
  
  The American Catalina 310 comes complete with a TV set – Pete Nielsen sails her up a different channel

• Herm truths
  
  David Jefferson pilots you round the rugged rocks to the tiny Channel Island gem of Herm

Sailing skills

• Question of Seamanship
• Learning Curve – Trial without jury
• Tom Cunliffe’s Yachtmaster Class
• Pilotage quiz answer
• Quick tips
• Des Sleightholme’s Sea Sense

Regulars

• Editorial
• On watch Including Marina Spy, Club Call and Pub Guide
• Charter news Stardust under new ownership
• New boats Vancouver 44 Pilot, plus Dudley Dix designs
• Readers’ letters
• Any questions?
• YM books
• Next month/subscriptions
• Blue water letter From Rod Heikell in Barcelona
• Libby Purves All at sea in Tinsel Town
• Second-hand focus Vancouver 32, a sturdy cruiser
• Buyers’ guide Surveyors’ jargon-buster
• Around the coast Latest news from our local correspondents
• Waterside property
• The Confessional Readers own up to their sailing sins