Nigel Calder and Chris Beeson explain how to use boat statistics to understand your boat, or choose the right boat for you and your cruising
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Diagnose and fix marine diesel engine problems
Tim Bartlett explains how you can diagnose some common marine diesel engine problems, and fix most of them
Sea toilet smell? Get a fresh heads
Are you gagging at the smell in the heads? Nigel Calder explains the best way to eliminate that sea toilet smell from your heads and holding tank
New boat test: Elan 360
What’s she like to sail? At 5 knots or less on an even keel, the Elan 360 felt a bit sleepy on the helm, but as soon as she reached…
New ideas to improve your life on board
It’s one thing to build a new boat, quite another to design a genuinely new feature that solves a problem on board. Graham Snook picks his favourite new ideas from…
10 tips for night sailing
Yachting Monthly experts have sailed tens of thousands of miles around the world, thousands of them at night. Here, they share their ten top tips for night sailing
‘We were up the creek without an anchor’
At anchor on a falling tide, at night, and faced with grounding, Kitiara Pascoe finds her CQR irretrievably fouled
Sailing by…or not – The Shipping Forecast
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Shipping Forecast. Sailor Carolyn Brown reads it out. Here she reveals why the radio studio can be an area of high pressure
Sunbeam 28.1 – Yachting Monthly review
Sunbeam has been building yachts in Austria for the last 60 years, so where better to test its 28.1? Graham Snook sailed her on Lake Attersee
More than 1,000 sailors prepare to cross Atlantic
ARC gets ready