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CRUISING
Know your boat: six ways to discover her true potential
How to understand the key performance indicators that explain why she sails the way she does

10 Rules for when your wife is a better sailor than you
Charles Jennings presents a bluffer’s guide for cruising cowards and cads

Over the sea to Skye
Alastair Buchan reports on a memorable cruise from Newcastle to the Inner Hebrides via the Great Glen

Seduced by a temptress
Mark Fishwick paints an intimate picture of his remarkable yacht, which has been cruising under sail for 100 years

Flushing: gateway to cruising in Holland
Dick Durham guides you up the mighty Schelde to a gem of a town that gives access to Holland’s huge network of inland waterways

SAILING SKILLS
How to use sea breezes to your advantage
Ken Endean explains how a shrewd skipper can make the best use of thermal winds on coastal passages

A Question of seamanship
In the Alderney Race with a gale expected ‘later’ – where to shelter?

How to draw your own weather charts
Simon Keeling explains a key skill that many sailors don’t have, and others have forgotten

Learning curve
How a Yachting Monthly contributor rescued a man overboard and saved his boat

Skipper’s tips
RNLI coxwain’s top towing tip; When not to lift a dinghy outboard leg; Why it’s often right to rip out old deck gear; and more

Any questions?
Why you can’t use ‘explosive dumping grounds; When a spade is a plough; French canal tips...

BOATS AND GEAR
New gear
From non-toxic antifoul to nautical beanbags, a round-up of the latest kit on chandlers’ shelves

How to give old anchor chain a new lease of life
The cheaper option: get it re-galvanised

Group test: battery chargers
Why every boat needs a modern battery charger – and which one to buy

Used boat test: First 38
How an old offshore racer makes a fine ocean cruiser... at a creek-crawling price!

New boat test: Dehler 45
Is this fast cruiser the last ‘proper’ Dehler?

REGULARS
View from the helm Editor’s letter
Cruising news Threat of no-anchor zones all around the UK coast
Letters Readers write: ‘dangerous flaw’ in AIS system, and more...
Libby Purves: ‘Word of mouse’
Tom Cunliffe: Buying a boat – why the heart always has the last word
The Confessional Readers own up to their sailing sins and beg absolution