Features

• The Med for less
  Mary and Richard Neate prove it?s possible to cruise the Med in comfort on a shoestring budget of £15 per day

• The cruising news
  BBC journalist Michael Buerk promotes cash- back cruising by chartering out his Westerly Oceanquest 35, Airwaves, in the Med

• Cape crusaders
  Part three of the O?Grady family?s Antarctic voyage sees them battle through treacherous storms from South Georgia to Cape Town

• Spring fit-out Special:
  ? A-Z checklist for fitting out, plus RNLI safety checklist
  ? Buyers? guide to new antifoulings
  ? How to fire-proof your engine
  

• Westcoasting part two: Around Land?s End
  Ken Endean goes rock-hopping around the Cornish peninsula in London Apprentice

• Digital reckoning
  Raster v vector: In the second of our three- part series on electronic navigation, Simon Jinks zooms in on digital chart decisions
  
  
• Destinations: Cork Harbour
  A great maritime history and a rugged natural beauty are complemented by a warm Irish welcome, writes Peter Cumberlidge
  
  
• Love at last sight
  A crippling injury to his beloved old boat forces blue water sailor Herb Payson to admit to the emotional bond between a man and his first yacht

• Cape of good boats
  Mike Kopman returns to his South African roots to discover a burgeoning boatbuilding and sailmaking industry
  

Sailing Skills

• A Question of Seamanship
  A sunken wreck throws up a navigational conundrum in the Channel Islands

• Learning Curve ? why we had to scuttle our yacht
  Peter and Zara Davies recount their agonising experience during the 2002 ARC

• Yachtmaster Class
  Tom Cunliffe gets serious with his scope and ground gear for a lesson in extreme anchoring

• Better Boat Handling
  In the first of a two-part series, Simon Jinks focuses on sail trim basics and adjusting your genoa to improve performance

• Knots
  The Carrick bend

• Sailing Quiz
  Win a Gerber River Shorty knife

• Sea sense
  Safe buoy-hopping buoy-hopping tips
  

On Test

• Bénétéau Océanis 423
  Does the successor to the hugely popular 411 match up? James Jermain finds out

• Elan 31
  While she has been designed for performance, James Jermain finds more than just a hint of cruising potential

Every Month

• Editorial

• On Watch
  The best sailing news pages
  
  
• Readers? letters

• Any Questions?
  Avoiding oil from the Prestige

• Next month and YM books

• Libby Purves
  Not really round the world
  
  
• YM subscriptions
• Blue Water Letter
  Rod Heikell finds the meltemi missing from the Aegean
  
  
• New Boats for 2003
  80 New Gear
  
  
• A-Z of second-hand boats
  The start of the Ns

• Around the coast

• Property

• The Confessional