• Buyers beware
  
  In the wake of Westerly Yachts’ bankruptcy, Miles Kendall tells boat buyers how to protect their money
• Western Reproaches
  
  Sod’s law steps aboard a two-handed yacht race. James Jermain confesses all

• Small world cruiser
  
  The intrepid Campbells have the world in their pocket-cruiser. She’s just 26ft LOA

• To the rock and beyond
  
  Mark and Amanda Long chase the sun from Gib to Sardinia, en route to Greece in their Pionier 10

• Learning by laptop
  
  Is training for RYA courses easier by computer or book? Simon Jinks sails through a host of tutorial CD ROMS to see which is best
• Living to tell the tale
  
  Attending an RYA Sea Survival course could mean the difference between life and death.

• Free chart
  
  Peter Cumberlidge visits B&233;nodet, at the heart of south-west Brittany’s summer cruising grounds

• Plain sailing in cyberworld
  
  Hugh Marriott examines e-mail at sea by SSB radio, satcom, mobile phone and cybercafe

• Cruise of the ancients
  
  Martin Thomas organises a cross-Channel jaunt for his father’s near-octogenarian sailing cohorts.
• Rally cry
  
  Miles Kendall signs up as crew with the oldest competitor and smallest yacht in the 28-strong fleet of YM’s Rally Portugal
• Swedish perfection
  
  Second-hand focus: Simon Jinks sails the Hallberg-Rassy 34

• Miami nice
  
  Paul Gelder charters a 45ft catamaran in Miami and sets off to explore Hemingway’s Key West haunts

• Shipwrecked!
  
  Nigel Porter recounts the loss of his 45ft Sadler Barracuda off Fécamp in a spring gale

• Sailing Skills
  
  
• Question of seamanship
  
  
• Learning Curve – No escape at Fécamp
  
  
• Tom Cunliffe’s Yachtmaster Class
  
  
• Quick Tips
  
  
• Des Sleightholme’s Sea Sense
  
  
• Pilotage quiz – win a hand-held VHF
  
  

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