• Gripping stuff!
  
  Fed up with dragging anchors? Our six-page special will renew your confidence in the sailor’s best friend

• First stop Falmouth
  
  Mark and Amanda Long sold up to sail to the Med. In Part One of their story, they fit-out and sail to Falmouth
• The best cruiser ever?
  
  Peter Nielsen meets the maker of a legend, boatbuilder Jeremy Rogers, who made and lost a fortune with the Contessa 32 and 26

• Eastern promise
  
  Miles Kendall falls under the spell of barge yacht sailing on the East Coast aboard the Norfolk Trader 45

• Red Sea perils
  
  In Israel Paul Gelder meets sailors on the Blue Water Rally, nearing the end of their circumnavigation

• Destinations: Dieppe
  
  James Jermain visits Dieppe, a popular starting point for a Normandy cruise. Plus, free pull-out chart

• Handheld VHFs
  
  Smaller, better waterproofed and longer battery life – but which one? Mark Turley and Simon Jinks compare

• Braveheart
  
  At 85 Jean Keppie is still cruising her 50-year-old McGruer classic in Scotland. Barbara Wright met her

• Inside job
  
  Peter Nielsen tests the David Thomas-designed Hunter Channel 31- with its new-look interior

• Second-hand focus
  
  James Jermain takes another look at the the Dufour 29

• Boat buyers’ guide
  
  A first cruiser for the family

• Rod of the Rovers
  
  Rod Heikell sails to Haiti, gets press-ganged to play soccer with the locals, and discovers ‘quite simply the best place in the Caribbean I’ve visited’
• New gear briefing
  
  Simon Jinks checks out the latest equipment for you and your boat

• Sailing Skills
• Question of seamanship – Mooring dilemmas
  
  
• Learning Curve – Run down or rescued?
  
  
• Tom Cunliffe’s Yachtmaster Class
  
  
• Seamanship tips
  
  
• Pilotage quiz – win a new handheld VHF worth ‘350
  
  
• Des Sleightholme’s Sea Sense
  
  

Regulars

• Editorial
• On watch Including Marina Spy, Club Call and Pub Guide
• New boats
• Readers’ letters
• Any questions
• Next month/Subscriptions
• YM books
• Libby Purves
  
  On the thrills and spills of white-water rafting
• Blue water letter
  
  From Rod Heikell in Barcelona
• Blue water postscript
• Around the coast
  
  Latest news from our correspondents
• Waterside property
• The Confessional
  
  Readers own up to their sailing sins