Inside your March 2015 issue…

SAILING SKILLS

Expert On Board
Tracks and travellers: Tom Cunliffe explains how to control your sailpower for fast, comfortable cruising

Skipper’s tips
– Relieving the load
– Be kind to your guardrails
– Get yourself a proper grab bag

Practical seamanship
What to check on a shakedown cruise

Learning curve
Paul Baker is towed, flogged and lashed on a Baltic cruise

A question of seamanship
‘Where would you chose to anchor?’

Any questions?
– Fitting out for a UK circumnavigation?
– Safe from diesel bug?
– Too much for kids?

CRUISING

Ready to cross an ocean
How six crews prepared to cross the Atlantic

Home waters
An early spring cruise To Northumberland’s Holy Island

Pilotage: Laugharne
Visit Dylan Thomas’s home by boat

Heritage
The yachtsman saving Britain’s oldest chandler’s

Cruising log
Readers’ cruising yarns

The oldest yacht
Could this be it?

Don’t dismiss in-boom reefing
Why Tom Cunliffe wouldn’t go back

Escape from Calais
Hoping for home

Anchorages
Choice spots in Jura, Yorkshire, Essex and the Canaries

BOATS & GEAR

New gear
Duncan Kent rounds up the best new kit, from inflatable cockpit tents to wind generators

Tried and tested
Bluetooth GPS, Hands-free action camera, MOB light, NMEA 2000 AIS transponder

How to tackle sea-toilets smells
Nigel Calder explains the best way to eliminate odours from your heads

New boats
Graham Snooks casts a critical eye over four of the latest new yachts to hit the water

Used boat test: Mystery 35
Bob Aylott savours the classic delights of this Stephen Jones design

New boat test: Sirius 40
Graham Snooks test the most spacious 40-footer he has ever seen