Features

• Beating the crime wave
  On patrol with Britain’s busiest marine policemen, Dick Durham discovers why crime afloat is thriving

• Circumnavigating Alderney
  David Jefferson explores the coastline of Alderney and discovers a variety of safe anchorages for intrepid rockhoppers

• Landfalls
  Sailing home from France, Bob Murray finds himself running before a gale to the sanctuary of Plymouth

• Moody in the lagoon
  Andrew Smyth sails his Moody Eclipse into the heart of Venice and navigates its hectic canals in his tender

• Shoal searching
  Astley Jones reports on the shifting shingle banks that guard Suffolk’s River Deben

• Lucky 13 for Blackjack
  Flying in the face of sailors’
  superstitions, Mike and Pat Pocock set off from Newfoundland on their 13th Atlantic crossing

• Destinations – free chart: Carentan
  Four miles inland from the Baie du Grand Vey, this pretty Normandy town, with its historic D-Day associations, is an off-beat destination for cruising yachts

• Rigid boom vangs
  Michael Kopman examines eight boom vangs

• French island hopping – Part 3
  Ken Endean explores the Iles de Glénan and Ile de Groix: the heart of French sailing country

• Stainless reputation
  Colin Lowe boards the ketch Leona, built entirely of stainless steel 20 years ago

On Test

• Sun Odyssey 32
  James Jermain puts the latest Jeanneau to the test

• Bénéteau Océanis Clipper 42CC
  Does this new centre-cockpit design compromise performance?

• Moody 37 & 376
  Simon Jinks sails the stable family cruiser which still impresses 15 years after production stopped

Regulars

• Editorial

• On Watch

• New Boats

• Readers’ Letters

• Any Questions – Battery charging

• Next Month

• YM Books

• Libby Purves – Yachting and the young

• Blue Water Letter
  from Rod Heikell in the Med

• Blue Water Postscript – Ocean gypsies
• New Gear

• A-Z of Second-hand Boats
  Buying a used boat?
  Our cut-out-and-keep series continues with Hunters and moves into the ‘I’s

• Around the Coast – Local news

• Property

• The Confessional

Sailing Skills

• Question of Seamanship
  Problems with plotting

• Learning Curve
  Ducking and gybing
  
  
• Better Boat Handling
  Helicopter Hi-line transfers

• Yachtmaster Class
  Go by the book, says Tom Cunliffe

• Knots
  The post hitch

• Mini Quiz
  Win a ‘250 McMurdo MOB wristwatch
  
  
• Sea Sense
  Playing it safe in rocky waters