Yachting Monthly June 2010
On sale: Thu, 6 May 2010
Perfect passage planning
Pilot book author Peter Cumberlidge presents his top tips and recommended routes for a cross-Channel summer cruise
Learning curve: Heavy weather impact
A Nicholson 31 slammed into wave troughs so deep that the impact crazed her gelcoat
Skipper's tips
Back-to-front buoyage explained
Hazards on vector charts
How to make sense of zone time
Leech line tweaks
Weather wise: model meteorology
Flummoxed by conflicting forecasts? To read between the lines, you need to know about the computer weather models that create them
Know your kit: e-Navigation
How long before your chartplotter calculates your passage plan like the satnav in your car?
A question of seamanship
Caught out by an approaching storm in Biscay with a novice crew - how can you avoid the worst of it?
Any questions?
Low-tide antifouling
Diesel bug
Petrol-powered bilge pumps
Composite gas bottles
Lifejacket servicing
Natural navigation
How to navigate with no electronics, no charts - not even a compass!
Secret Sardinia
A day's sail from the crowded Costa Smeralda lies the blissfully deserted Asinara Marine National Park
Destinations: Calais
Cross the world?s busiest seaway to discover a vibrant, historic haven
How I fell in love with Scotland
Mark Fishwick describes how a cruise round Britain changed his life
Me and my chart table
Navigation aboard RNLI chief exec Paul Boissier's Island Packet 380
The Pacific's best-kept secret
Rod Heikell waxes lyrical about New Caledonia: A little bit of France with a splash of the tropics?
Libby Purves
God bless yachtbrokers!
Tom Cunliffe
Radio gaga
Nigel Calder
High-energy batteries
The Confessional
Readers own up to their sailing sins
Used boat test: Sigma 33
Does this well-proven offshore legend make a good cruiser?
New boat test: Swedestar 370
A first date with a sleek, sexy new Swedish supermodel
Gear test: 14 inflatable tenders
The cheapest, toughest, lightest and best-value dinghies on the market - our rigorous test reveals all
New gear
From 'smart screen' electronics to leopardskin fender socks
Tried & tested
Oilskin tops n Navigator's watch
View from the helm
Cruising news
Letters
Readers' views and opinions
