Contents: December 2001 - Yachting Monthly

The most dangerous sandbank in the world
Dick Durham steps on the hallowed banks of the Goodwin Sands ñ know as the ëship swallowerí ñ graveyard to thousands of sailors
Small boat Atlantic adventures
Don’t let size put horizons on your dreamsí, says Alastair Buchan, who sailed the Atlantic in a Hurley 20
To the tiller born
Hannah Cunliffe reflects on growing up afloat ñ it all began with nappies changed on the chart table
Last of the Summer Time
Autumn is the time of mellow fruitfulness as Dick Durham squeezes in one last Channel passage as the nights begin to draw in
Wired for safety
How to avoid an electrical meltdown and fire at sea ñ part four of Nigel Calderís boatownerís guide
Laying-up time blues
Roger Morris tucks up his boat for the winter
Destinations
Peter Cumberlidge visits the classic South Coast haven of the River Yealm and Newton Ferrers in Devon
Christmas gifts
From pen-knives to pocket chart plotters, YM blazes a trail through the chandleries for the festive season
Rockiní up the Red Sea
Shadowfax and her intrepid crew battle up the Red Sea – even the Foreign Office got involved
Did you hear the one about?
True or false? Rod Heikell and Paul Gelder relate some tall tales of the sea
The wild west
On a challenging charter in the Scottish Western Isles, the Jackman family find a hidden paradise

On Test

Tartan 3700
Catana 401
James Jermain reports from the South of France on a sophisticated French catamaran
Moody Eclipse 33
Simon Jinks puts a deck saloon cruiser from the 1980s under the Second Look spotlight
A-Z Second-hand boats all about Dehlers well-built, innovative cruisers from Germany plus cruising Drascombes

Regulars

Sailing skills