Features

• WIN a laptop!
  The ultimate electronic charting system in YM’s competition

• The great escape
  Matthew Power’s boss gives him an eight week sabbatical and then joins him for a trip to north-west Spain, exploring the Rias

• Home waters
  East Coast sailor and cartoonist Mike Peyton reminisces about his favourite cruising grounds for the last 50 years

• Art of glass
  In the first of a two-part series, Peter Nielsen looks under the skin at how GRP boats are built

• Goat on a boat
  In the South Pacific, Jack Gush finds himself shipping a live goat on an inter-island passage to an Indian restaurant in the Fiji islands

• Obedient outboards
  Tim Bartlett gives a nine-step guide to a servicing your outboard engine

• Leagues ahead
  More than 100 years ago, Jules Verne devised a unique method for shipwrecked sailors. Mike Harris put it to the test

• A-Z of second-handboats (Part 3)
  ‘B’ for Bénéteau: the first of two articles, starting with the Bénéteau First range

• Alderney
  Peter Cumberlidge visits the most quintessentially English of the Channel Islands. Free fold-out chart inside

• Sat phones
  Simon Jinks looks at the latest in satellite communications; from email onboard to fax, telex and phones with built-in GPS

• Castaways
  Sarah Button and family sail on the West Coast of Scotland and discover the BBC Castaways on the island of Taransay

• Glossary of sea terms
  Confused by nautical slang? The inimitable and incorrigible Des Sleightholme comes up with some home-grown definitions

On Test

• New gear
  Tek-Dek artificial decking;
  handheld wind meter; ‘smart’ scrub brush

• Legend 290
  Peter Nielsen sails the first of the American boatbuilder’