Yachting Monthly

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Yachting monthly is at the heart of the British yachting market and is for people who actively sail their boats - whether cruising across the channel, around the coast or further a field in blue waters. It provides an entertaining mix of vital information for cruising yachtsmen with all levels of experience, which maximises their enjoyment, increases their skills and gives them the confidence to broaden their horizons.

IMPERFECT PARADISE

Orcas sink a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar

Quadriplegic adventurer sets off…

NEWS IN NUMBERS

Greek government revises Transit Log rules

Call to save tall ship Tenacious

Ella Hibbert to sail to Norway and Russia in Arctic preparation

MAIB publish Orkney grounding report

Mile-long RNLI flotilla for 200th anniversary

J Class legend Shamrock V relaunched after restoration

LETTERS

DON’T MISS NEXT MONTH

Yachting Monthly

Why Pip Hare needs you now

The day the sky turned red

FIRST TEST DUFOUR 41 • This new addition to the Dufour range seems to promise everything the modern cruising family might want. David Harding sees how she measures up

DUFOUR 41

SKIPPERS’ TIPS & YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Why does our fresh water smell?

What to do with an unwell crew member?

ARE YOU READY FOR YACHTMASTER? • In an age of digital navigation and walk ashore pontoons, how hard can the RYA Yachtmaster Offshore be? Theo Stocker prepared to take the test to find out

THE YACHTMASTER CREW

SWATTTING UP

YACHTMASTER OFFSHORE PREREQUISITES

LET THE PREPARATION COMMENCE

SAFETY BRIEF ITEMS

MARINA MANOEUVRES

LINES AND FENDERS

NAVIGATION

BLIND NAVIGATION

Picking up fore and aft moorings • Mooring fore and aft can be a fiddly process, never more so than in Cornwall’s Polperro. If you can do it here, says Rachael Sprot, then you can do it anywhere

LASSOING

APPROACH OPTIONS • We weighed up the options for the approach, each with their advantages and disadvantages.

THE BEST LAID PLANS

‘NEVER BEFORE HAVE I SAILED IN SUCH WILD WEATHER’ • When Jeremy Edwards and his sister were hit by a ‘weather bomb’ en route to Tonga it gave him a new-found respect for his sister’s skippering ability

LESSONS LEARNED

CRUISING HOW TO DODGE GALES IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY • Ken Endean tries a two-anchorage strategy

CRUISING EXPLORING THE RUGGED FAROES • Albert and Claudia spent five weeks slowly cruising through the 18 islands of the volcanic Faroe archipelago last summer, getting to know the local people and navigating the strong tides

CRUISING NOTES

ADVENTURE THE CALL OF THE SOUTH SEAS • What is the call of the South Seas? The Hoiland family were curious to find out, so they set off west to explore. This is the story of their year sailing through the islands and atolls of French Polynesia

CRUISING NOTES

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ADVENTURE RACING AROUND THE WORLD • First Mate Rachel Burgess tells YM what it was like to race 28,000 miles around the world to win the Ocean Globe Race with her all-female crew aboard Maiden

‘READY TO TAKE OFF AT THE NEXT WAVE’

YOUR CRUISING COMMUNITY

A tragic trade

BOOK CLUB • Julia Jones reviews the latest maritime reading

NEW GEAR • Dennis O’Neill reviews the latest products designed to make sailing safer and easier

TECHNICAL PURCHASING POWER • Sam Fortescue explains how to check you have the power needed to handle your running rigging safely – and how to fix it if you don’t

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Types of purchase

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