Special Features

• Trouble in paradise
  
  Reader Allan Taylor finds his Caribbean charter rudely interrupted by Hurricane Lenny. Further south, 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela, solo sailor Alastair Buchan faces Lenny alone…

• North by North-West
  
  James Jermain signs up for a delivery trip of the Ocean Youth Trust’s new Oyster 70 from Ipswich to Scotland

• Multihull special
  
  Cat Man: Peter Nielsen meets Tony Smith, an expatriate Brit who now builds the USA’s top-selling multihull. Multi Choice: fat cats, slim cats, spindly tris… Peter Nielsen discovers how they sell multihulls Stateside

• I’ll take the Low Road
  
  Rod Heikell sails his new yacht, Seven Tenths, home across the Atlantic via a more direct route from the Caribbean to the Azores

• Guernsey full circle
  
  David Jefferson circumnavigates Guernsey anti-clockwise with the experts

• Destinations: Camaret
  
  Peter Cumberlidge calls in at this beguiling Brittany stopover nestled in the crook of a rocky headland. Plus, free pull-out chart

• Light fantastic
  
  In the black of night, Duncan Kent puts eight night vision scopes to the test

  Court in the act
  
  Our nine-page London Boat Show special starts with Peter Nielsen’s pick of 20 showstopping ideas above and below decks. Then there’s five pages of new gear that caught the eye of YM’s experts

• Spanish highs
  
  Acton man Miles Kendall and pals try out a revolutionary charter yacht on a late-season break in Mallorca

• Win an ‘8,000 holiday
  
  With our easy-to-enter competition

• Sail power
  
  In part 15 of our series, Peter Nielsen looks at free- standing rigs, like the AeroRig, junk sails and catboats

• Sailing skills
  
  

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

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• On watch
  
  including Marina Spy, Club Call and Pub Guide

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• Blue Water Letter
  
  From Hugh Marriott in Malaysia

• Libby Purves
  
  This cruising life

• Yachting Monthly books

• Around the coast
  
  Latest news from our local correspondents

• Waterside property

• Second-hand focus
  
  James Jermain on the Scanmar 33

• Buying a boat
  
  Part 6: Choosing a surveyor

• The Confessional
  
  Readers own up to their sailing sins