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Why more cruisers should go wireless
Nick Charman makes the case for all cruising yachts to change tack
Parker 660 Pilothouse
Peter Poland test drives the Parker 660 Pilothouse
Sailing The Martello Coast of Corsica
Owen Moorhouse recalls wonderful cruising and friendships made in Corsica in the 1980s
Sailing solo to the Isles of Scilly
In the summer of 2020 Katie McCabe (aged 13 at the time) sailed her newly restored classic yacht solo to the Isles of Scilly
North Sea dash
With Covid and Brexit bureaucracy melting away, Saskia Groen-in’t-Woud enjoyed her first North Sea crossing – despite rough return weather
Cut and thrust of sailing
The best ways to call a halt to proceedings
Cook's challenge
Scraping the food locker bare at the end of the season requires some culinary creativity
Boater's biplane rescue at air show
A powerboater and her family sprang into action when a biplane crashed into Poole Harbour on the south coast, narrowly missing yachts, rocks and a chain ferry.
Beachcombing
Searching out landing stages and boat noosts
How To Replace Worn Rudder Bushes
Hedley Ritchie shows how he changed the wobbly bushes on his transom-hung rudder to improve his Westerly Konsort’s steering
Whale-watching in Quebec
Liveaboards Belinda Chesman and Kit McAllister mix culture with cetaceans as they cruise Canada’s great St Lawrence river
Remote paddling
The simplest vessels are so often the best
Mind how you go
It’s time to exorcise those mystic influences
Inland innovation
Wilf Lower relives a European inland adventure
Up a creek with no water to paddle
Mike Humphreys calls on his ingenuity and practical skills to rescue a family marooned on a mud bank by the falling tide
Small boats, big cruising
Rupert Holmes describes a selection of very capable small boats for cruising on a budget
God vakt!
Marsali Taylor recalls every detail of a day aboard the tall ship Sørlandet off the coast of Norway
Boat Electrics 101 course review
Nigel Calder and his team of marine electrics experts have hit the mark, says Rupert Holmes
Viking adventure
Sam Griffiths and his dad camp out under the stars in a 12ft dinghy to enjoy the delights of an historic German waterway
Red herring
Seaspiracy is righteous rather than right
Restoring Andromeda
Clive Robertson swaps a London media career for four years in a boatyard and restores a wooden gaffer from scratch
Steam-bending a new toe rail
Greg Manning shows you how to laminate and steam a plank so that it can be to be bent across its width
The right look
Peter Poland tests the second-hand Swedish production powerboat that just looks ‘right’ to so many ex-sailors
Fleeing a volcanic eruption
Kia Koropp and family up-anchor and grab their face masks when a cloud of black ash descends on the Grenadines
Make or break situation
How you can get snookered when sailing
Old gaffer to Ushant
Max Liberson suffers concussion, ghostly apparitions and crew desertion on a tiring voyage to France
Fitting a new water tank gauge
Measuring your boat’s water capacity is essential for any cruiser, yet is surprisingly hard to get right, discovers Roger Hughes
Fast track to Yachtmaster
When Covid scuppers Josh Lindley’s gap year, he takes on a demanding 5-month sailing course instead to qualify as a skipper
Weather forecast models and apps
Rupert Holmes unpicks the tech behind the data that underpins all weather apps and highlights his favourite software
Short-handed harbour manoeuvres
Øyvind Bordal has some tips for single- and double-handers