Dragons and Demons Sailing the exotic islands of Indonesia, Fred and Jacquie Lockey encounter the Komodo dragon and stowaway spirits...
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- Dragons and Demons
Sailing the exotic islands of Indonesia, Fred and Jacquie Lockey encounter the Komodo dragon and stowaway spirits
- Landfalls
YM’s new series of homewater cruising stories. Win a watercolour of your boat
- Reaching new heights
A ladder can make mast- climbing easier. We put four to the test
- Mediterranean maelstrom
Justine Oliver discovers that the Mediterranean Sea is not always a ‘calm lake’
- Selling a dream
Laurie Lewis sold his boat as the bills increased … and wished he hadn’t
- New books reviewed
The latest pilot books and cruising companions - Destinations – with Free chart
Inside information on the picturesque Normandy port of Honfleur on the south bank of the Seine Estuary
- No holiday for the skipper
Matthew Power ponders the fact that sailing can sometimes prove to be purgatory as well as paradise – yet we keep doing it
- Cruising Korfezi
Caroline Stevens discovers Turkey is ‘perfect’ and a far cry from the East Coast mud and Suffolk shingle - God’s little Isle
A Scottish island so lovely, the residents bought it! Christopher Bruce pays a visit to Gigha - Gear test
Honda 4-stroke 10 hp outboard - Duel of two Swedish 40ft deck saloons
James Jermain tests the CR400DS and Arcona 40DS
- Second Look
The Carter 33, an IOR-influenced cruiser-racer - A-Z of second-hand boats
Buying a used boat? Our cut-out-and- keep series continues with the Gibseas, Galion and Golden Hind
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- Editorial
- On Watch
- Readers’ letters
- Any questions
- How to subscribe
- Libby Purves –fear and loathing on the ocean
- Next month & YM books
- Blue Water Letter –Rod Heikell in Turkey
- Blue Water Postscript –new books reviewed
- Around The Coast Property
- The Confessional
Sailing skills
- Question of Seamanship
Loss of steering - Learning Curve
Medical emergency at sea - Better Boat Handling
Piles without the ouch!
- Yachtmaster Class
Compass controversy - Knots: a new series
The Perfection Loop or Flying Bowline - Sea Sense
Roughing it out
- Pilotage Quiz answer
Answer to the January quiz. The last in this series
On test