Contents for Yachting Monthly June edition.

CRUISING

  • COVER STORY: WIN A PC WORTH £1,500 – MAPTECH PC COMPETITION
    Win a flat screen PC, chart software and GPS
  • 10 TOP MED TIPS – HITCH-HEIKELL’S GUIDE TO THE MED
    Med guru Rod Heikell answers your questions
  • DISCOVER IRELAND – EIRES AND GRACES
    Graham Snook charters from Dingle to Kinsale
  • AVERAGE WHITE BOATS
    Where’s the joy in a plastic boat? asks Ken Munn
  • ROYAL BACKING FOR GIPSY MOTH IV
    The latest exciting news and pictures
  • FREE WAYPOINT CHART – LANDFALLS: SOUTHWOLD
    Dick Durham explores this delightful Suffolk backwater
    PLUS, free waypoint chart
  • BLUE WATER LETTER
    Colin Lowe completes his circumnavigation
  • COULD YOU DO IT?IN THE WAKE OF HEROES
    Paul Heiney prepares for the solo transatlantic race
  • GET AHEAD OF THE RACE
    Top tips for the Round the Island Race from Jeremy Rogers
  • BOOKS OF DELIGHT
    The winners of the YM/RYA Log Competition
  • COLREG CHAOSCLOSE CALLS WITH SHIPS
    Ken Endean on the hazards of shipping around the UK BOATS AND GEAR
  • OCÉANIS CLIPPER 343
    Space and speed combine in this
  • IS YOUR YACHT INVISIBLE?
    Can you see me?Radar reflectors
  • THE RED SUN SHINES
    The Jeanneau Sun Fast 36 is a racer with real cruising capabilities
  • NEW GEAR
    Eco-antifouling, instant advice and more

    SAILING SKILLS

  • WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO REEF?THREE REEFING SYSTEMS TESTED
    Tom Cunliffe tests three systems in 40 knots
  • LEARNING CURVE
    Saved by a spare RIB: disaster threatens when a yacht’s steering locks off Chichester Bar
  • ROPEWORK
    Step by step guide to whippings
  • QUESTION OF SEAMANSHIP
    Stuck without an engine – what would you do? MOB recovery, sacrificial string and more
  • ANY QUESTIONS
    Buying an ex-charter yacht, the merits of DSC VHF Radio and heads without the plumbing

    REGULARS

  • EDITOR’S LOG
    The view from the helm
  • OPENING SHOT
    Bishops Bay, western Scotland
  • NEWS
    Breton berthing bargains
  • READERS’ LETTERS
    The right way to anchor
  • THIS CRUISING LIFE
    Libby Purves goes cold turkey
  • CUNLIFFE ON CRUISING
    How well do you know your shipmates?
  • NEXT MONTH
    Sneak preview of what’s over the horizon
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  • AROUND THE COAST
    What’s been happening in your home waters?
  • CONFESSIONAL
    Yachtsmen share their sailing sins