Special Features

• YM Cruising Seminars
  
  Your last chance to sign up for YM’s January seminars

• Sail through the Centuries
  
  1000 years of nautical history, great inventions that have shaped the way we sail, musings from Des Sleightholme and Libby Purves, and much more
• The Greatest Cape
  
  A singlehander finds rounding Cape Horn a humbling yet enriching experience

• Destinations – Chenal du Four
  
  Peter Cumberlidge peers through the gateway to South Brittany

• Night of horrors
  
  Jack Gush breaks a golden rule in a lonely Australian anchorage

• When Sally met Sabrina
  
  Two grand old ladies pick up their skirts and relive their youth in a dash to the West Country

• Bigger Blue
  
  What’s happening at Earl’s Court? Our guide to the first international boat show of the new millennium
• Into the deep
  
  Is it a shark? A giant grouper? No, it’s James Jermain plumbing the depths on a Caribbean dive charter
• Shoe business
  
  A score of deck shoes on test, supervised by Miles Kendall; no mean feat

• Murray prints
  
  Neither seaboot stockings nor pink bloomers could come between Des Sleightholme and his first boat

• Centre stage
  
  Moody’s new centre-cockpit 34-footer has good accommodation and a fine turn of speed

• Running rigging
  
  Peter Nielsen untangles the latest developments in marine ropes

• Building the Starlight
  
  How do you reconcile performance with seaworthiness? Stephen Jones, designer of some of the most radical race boats around, discusses his new Starlight 46 with James Jermain

• Sailing Skills
• Question of Seamanship
• Learning Curve
• Des Sleightholme’s Sea Sense
• Pilotage Quiz – win a GPS
• Tom Cunliffe’s Yachtmaster Class