CRUISING
COVER STORY: DONALD CROWHURST SPECIAL
SAILING INTO OBLIVION
40 years after the Golden Globe Race, Dick Durham and Paul Gelder talk to Simon Crowhurst about his father’s fateful voyage

QUIET SCOTTISH SOUNDS
Ken Endean and family enjoy a peaceful, idyllic cruise from Oban to Kintyre aboard their Sabre 27, London Apprentice

CRAFTY CRUISING
Disposable egg cups, storage nets, sail bags and sewing machines – Bob Cooper makes do and mends

WINTER AT EASTER
While waiting for spares to repair their furler, Susan Payne and family enjoy Easter Island’s cold statues and warm people

THREE MEN IN A BOAT
Over a pint or two, John Roberson talks two friends into a round trip from Fowey to the Isle of Wight in a 20ft open boat

BLUE WATER LETTER
Andy and Ulla jump ship in Brazil to cruise a remote part of the Amazon basin

AROUND THE CORNER
Kieran Flatt short-cuts Ushant to take his 28ft sloop from Brittany’s Channel coast into the Bay of Biscay

THOUGHTS AT ANCHOR
A dream anchorage turns into a claustrophobic nightmare

SAILING SKILLS
COVER STORY: MAST CLIMBING MADE EASY
EXPERT ALOFT
There’s more than one way to climb a mast…

SKIPPER’S TIPS
On-deck navigation, impassable passages and more

A QUESTION OF SEAMANSHIP
Can you share a mooring without making problems for yourself?

KNOCKDOWN IN PARADISE
When their Ovni 385 was rolled in the Caribbean, it was 30 years’ shared cruising experience that got the Balducci’s back on track

ANY QUESTIONS?
Keeping kids safe on board, drying out, and bumper blooms

BOATS AND GEAR
COVER STORY: BRITISH HUNTER LINK 30
NEW BOAT TEST: NO DOUBTING THOMAS
David Thomas, designer of many of Britain’s best-loved boats, is back with a new 30-footer inspired by gentlemen’s racing

LIBERTY BELLE
After a lifetime of short-handed sailing, Geoff Hales has settled on the Liberty 23. Jeremy Evans finds out why

NEW GEAR
Onboard intercom, stick-on stainless steel anti-chafe pads, LEDs and more. Ben Meakins cherry-picks the best new gear

COVER STORY: MULTI-TOOL TEST
THE GOOD KNIFE
Screw loose? Lost your nut? A good multi-tool absolves a multitude of maintenance sins. Chris Beeson tests 18 models

A-Z OF USED BOATS
We take a look at the past and craft of two favourite marques from the 1970s, Contessa and Contest

REGULARS
EDITOR’S LOG
View from the helm

OPENING SHOT
Fife and Herreshoff’s masterpieces- a grand spectacle in the Solent

NEWS
The secrets of Olympic success

READERS’ LETTERS
Your views and opinions

LIBBY PURVES
On the homeland’s Cape Horns

CUNLIFFE ON CRUISING
Foul weather friends

NIGEL CALDER’S TECH TALK
Manuals – information indigestion

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AROUND THE COAST
RYA bottles on boat bridge

THE CONFESSIONAL
Yachtsmen confess their sailing sins