Yachting Monthly January 2011
On sale: Thu, 16 Dec 2010
CRUISING
The stress-free way to buy or sell your yacht
Essential advice from the professionals and readers who have bought and sold
Yachtsman?s guide to London
Cruising guide to St Katharine Docks and the capital
Barbados or bust
Blue water cruising legend Les Powles owns up to a classic blunder
?Quick-witted crew kept us safe in a snowstorm?
Winter conditions and tricky pilotage for this East Coast crew
Unholy Christmas cruise
A couple survive a white Christmas at sea in a four-day storm
Me and My Chart Table
Navigation from the bridge of a working tug boat
SAILING SKILLS
How to get more out of light winds
John Goode?s easy and safe way to fly your cruising chute
Skipper?s Tips
Datum shifts, using charts to read rocks, sea fog or land fog? Plus new monthly nautical jargon buster
?How we saved our rig when the forestay snapped?
Real life drama
Sailing skills quiz
Test your nautical know-how in our fiendish festive quiz
Get the bigger picture from the Shipping Forecast
Draw your own weather charts with forecaster Simon Keeling
A Question of Seamanship
What?s the best place to break your passage for a sleep?
Any Questions?
Racing or cruising draft for new yacht, VHF direction finding to end, what you can throw overboard
REGULARS
View from the helm
Editor?s letter
Cruising news
New guidance for yachtsmen following Chandlers? release
Letters
Readers write
Libby Purves
Is the RNLI becoming a nag?
Tom Cunliffe
Can we still read the conditions?
Competition
Win Tacktick instruments
Confessions
Sailing sins revealed
BOATS & GEAR
London Boat Show preview
Yachting Monthly cruising chute demo for ExCeL
Ultrasonic antifouling
Read the results of our long-term test
Why computers STILL can?t beat paper charts!
We test the latest passage-planning software
Why an old racer makes a great cruiser
Used boat test: Sigma 362
New boat test: Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 409
Is this set to become one of the world?s most popular cruisers?
Is this the best winch in the world?
A radical winch design, a fuel cap lock, high-tech harnesses and lots more new kit
