Yachting Monthly UK Magazine - January 2025

In this issue

A QUESTION OF SEAMANSHIP Can I squeeze over this tidal sill on neaps?

GOING TO GOES Discovering Dutch delights on the North Sea’s far shore.

CRUISING COMMUNITY 60 years RNLI volunteering Wooden boatbuilding.

Winter brings excitement and opportunity

Oddity’s double glazing, insulation and heating create a warm, homely environment as I bash out this column.

3 mins

ARCONA 50

The new flagship for Swedish yard Arcona represents a new era and a bold new direction. Theo Stocker went to find out whether there is still a family resemblance to her smaller siblings

10 mins

HOW THE PANAMA TRANSIT IS GETTING EASIER

Transiting the Panama canal was an epic milestone for Andy and Julie Pag. It required practical seamanship, bureaucratic navigation and help from onboard guests

6 mins

PILOTAGE DONE PROPERLY

Chartplotters are an amazing aid, but can detract from your real-world pilotage if not used with caution, says Justin Morton

10+ mins

'MAYDAY, GRANDAD OVERBOARD!'

When David Richards and his grandson Henry went out racing from lowey, they didn't expect their sail to end with a lifeboat rescue

4 mins

ADVENTURE MAISIE GOES TO GOES

To depart or not to depart? That is the question. Is it safer to stay, or suffer the wind and weather of a rough North Sea?

7 mins

ADVENTURE SAILING TO HAITI

After spending two months in the Dominican Republic, Andy Brown sails west to Haïti bringing medical and school supplies to the town of Mole Saint Nicholas

8 mins

In celebration of bad sailing

New owner Monty Halls tests his sailing skills with his family aboard their Colvic 34 ketch, Sobek. A recently qualified Day Skipper, Monty faces a few unexpected challenges...

3 mins

Midsummer on Hanö

This wonderful little island in the south-east of Sweden is a real gem off the beaten track

3 mins

Sailing siblings

Mabel Stock, her brother Ralph, a friend Steve and an unnamed paying passenger passed through the Panama Canal in December 1919 on the sturdy Norwegian cutter Ogre. They were towed to a quiet anchorage in Balboa away from the boat traffic but within rowing distance of the shore.

5 mins

TECHNICAL MAINSAIL MODIFICATIONS

Safety and performance improved hugely when Mike Reynolds reduced the size of his mainsail and re-configured the systems controlling it

8 mins

VERTUE

For a 25-footer, the Vertue has a huge reputation and has conquered every ocean. So what makes this little boat quite such an enduring success? Nic Compton finds out

10+ mins

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Yachting Monthly UK Magazine Description:

Published by Time Inc (UK). 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.