November 2000: Contents - Yachting Monthly

Helen Anderson copes with an unexpected emergency on a cruise off Scotland's West Coast, aboard her 27ft sloop

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Atlantic at 65

Clive Imber was 65, with just six years sailing experience, when he set off singlehanded across the Atlantic. His four part adventure starts here
Argyll adventures

Helen Anderson copes with an unexpected emergency on a cruise off Scotland’s West Coast, aboard her 27ft sloop
Fjord fiesta

We go to Norway to join the Risor Wooden Boat Festival
Warp factor

Almost at the end of a 9,000-mile Atlantic circuit, Alastair Buchan gets a rope round his prop off Selsey Bill
Surreal thing

Paul Gelder packs his sombrero to sail down Mexico way with two fellow gringos and a senorita in the Sea of Cortez
Uninvited guests

One of the uncharted ‘hazards’ for yachtsmen sailing to idyllic destinations is the long lost ‘friend’ who turns up for a holiday. Sheila Blackburn recalls a few ?
Highland fling

Celebrated Brixham sailing trawler Leader comes home from Scotland to Dartmouth for the first time in over a century. Our man Dick Durham was aboard for the passage

20 tips for laying up

From masthead to bilges and engine to electronics, the essential guide to laying-up
Water wheels

In the wake of the petrol crisis, we put six folding bikes to the test
Jacques of all trades

We sail Jeanneau’s Sun Odyssey 37 (above)
Second-hand Moody 336

The Moody 336 was built to fill the gap between the Eclipse 33 and the centre-cockpit 346. Simon Jinks finds the 336 anything other than a stop-gap
Try before you buy

In our second-hand Buyers’ Guide, James Jermain highlights what to look for in a trial sail