Features

• Vane sailing
  Mike Kopman looks at windvane self-steering systems

• Landfalls: A tale of two sailors
  One boat (a Dufour 38), one couple, one journey, one December gale and two wildly different experiences
  
  
• Navigating New Zealand?s Northland
  Sailing up from Auckland on his Twister 28, Miles Hordern explores an alluring variety of anchorages along the Pacific coast

• Nobody loved us
  Mike Peyton swaps rag and stick for stinkpot to crew a friend?s motor boat from the East Coast to Sweden

• Boom and bust
  When her father?s yacht gets knocked down off the Pacific coast of the USA, Meg Clothier discovers that her novice crew is in fact a crack survival team
  
  
• Cutting your losses
  Coping with a dismasting requires reliable, fast-working equipment ? Mike Kopman tests rig cutters
  
  
• Which charts are best?
  Simon Jinks and Dick Durham compare the different makes of charts for popular cruising areas
  
  
• French island hopping part 7
  The series concludes as Ken Endean visits Ile d?Oléron and Ile d?Aix, Napoleon?s last French home
  
  
• Destinations: Fowey
  Toby Hodges visits an historic Cornish port which combines efficiency with charm
  
  
• Stability part 5
  Expert Andrew Blyth considers the stability issues affecting multihull yachts
  
  
• Southampton review
  The YM team reports on the new boats and gear at Europe?s largest show on the water
  

Sailing Skills

• A Question of Seamanship
  What would you do if you lost one of your spreaders?

• Knots
  The Eskimo bowline is the latest in Geoffrey Budworth?s series 96 Sea Sense Fender facts with Des Sleightholme

• Yachtmaster class
  Dropping the pick with Tom Cunliffe

• Learning Curve
  Aground on a Fijian reef, Jack Gush describes a long and tense night aboard his steel-hulled Jackella

• Better Boat Handling
  Simon Jinks on how to recover a MOB from the water

• Sailing quiz
  Win a pair of Steiner Commander V binoculars worth £595
  

On Test

• Nauticat 37
  Build quality headed a list of impressive features on this new heavy-displacement Finnish deck saloon

• Maxi 1000 ? second look
  Simon Jinks sails this fast, well-mannered Swedish cruiser

Every Month

• Editorial

• On Watch
  The best sailing news pages

• Readers? letters

• YM subscriptions

• Any Questions?
  Which type of mainsheet traveller?

• Next month and YM books

• Libby Purves
  Gurus? guide to clean living

• Blue Water Letter
  Niki Perryman in Panama

• Blue Water Postscript
  A junk-rigged cruising catamaran

• A-Z of second-hand boats
  Legends and Leisures are amongst this month?s Ls

• Around the Coast

• Property

• The Confessional