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LAND SOF FOUR KINGS

A YEAR CRUISING INDONESIA IS A CHANCE TO EXPLORE DESERTED ISLANDS AND UNFORGETTABLE UNDERWATER LIFE FOR CATHERINE LAWSON

A full-on 50th Fastnet Race

Saturday 22 July dealt up a wild start for the record entry 430 yachts taking part in the 50th Rolex Fastnet Race

MASTERCLASS

RACHAEL SPROT ON MANOEUVRING UNDER POWER

MULTIPLE СНОIСЕ

GETTING A MULTIHULL READY FOR A BIG BLUEWATER ADVENTURE REQUIRES THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT CHOICE AND SPEC LEVEL. WE GET REAL-LIFE ADVICE ON HOW TO PRIORITISE

PLUS ÇA CHANGE

THE 2023 EDITION OF THE OCEAN RACE WAS ALL CHANGE FOR THIS HISTORIC EVENT. HELEN FRETTER GETS THE INSIDE STORY FROM THE TEAMS AT THE FINISH IN GENOA

TURN UP THE VOLUME

DUFOUR HAS JUST CHANGED THE GAME WITH HOW MUCH BOAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO GET IN A 40-FOOTER BUT IS THAT A GOOD THING?

EXTRAORDINARY BOATS

HELEN FRETTER ON TRIMARAN TRINITY

Traditional Broads motor cruisers

Why large wooden traditional cruisers such as the 43ft Silver Jubilee class are Clive and his wife's favourite holiday charter vessels

Build your kit boat like an expert

Polly Robinson shares her best practice for constructing a boat from a pre-cut kit, and how to troubleshoot potential problems

Routing in tide

Professional meteorologist and expert sailor Chris Tibbs explains how to navigate more efficiently through tidal waters

Boats for cruising around the UK

Duncan Kent chooses the best sail and motor boats under 40ft for circumnavigating the islands of Britain and Ireland

Do I need my vessel re-certified?

Surveyor Ben Sutcliffe-Davies gives his advice on the implications to be considered when making changes to your boat

How to fit your own autopilot

Gilbert Park shows how he installed a new autopilot on his Trusty T23 motorboat

WORLD'S FASTEST NELSON?

I’ve always had a thing about Nelson 40s. The first one I bought back in the mid-1980s was an ex-Abu Dhabi police launch that could only be described as a wreck. I found it lurking at the back of an industrial boatyard on Hayling Island. In fact there were two of them but one had a Nelson- shaped hole in the side from a previous encounter with its stablemate. Even the undamaged one was in a right old state; the hull was delaminated, the superstructure was rotten, it was full of water and none of its systems or fittings were salvageable – not even the machine gun mounting points on the flybridge and foredeck. More’s the pity – there were times when they could have come in handy on a summer’s day in the Solent!

BALLISTIC XP80

Is Ballistic's new XP80 really \"The Ultimate Adventure RIB\"? We head to Trafalgar Wharf in Portsmouth to test its mettle

JEANNEAU CAP CAMARAT 10.5 CC

If you want a boat that can do it all, the flagship centre console model from Jeanneau's famous Cap Camarat line might be just the thing

AEGEAN ADVENTURE

Thomas and Jutta Kittel continue their cruise from Albania via Corfu to the Ionian islands of Lefkas, Sami and Zakynthos

Death of the compass?

Navigation-what's hot and what's not

Long-haul cruising CHECKLIST

Jimmy Cornell boils down decades' worth of world cruising surveys to find the factors that affect voyage success

Portable toilet buyer's guide

Ali Wood checks out the best places to go... when you really need to go

HOW TO BERTHA PILOTHOUSE BOAT

Look around any marina in the UK or abroad and you will almost always see a fleet of small pilothouse motorboats dotted around the pontoons.

BUYING A FLYBRIDGE CRUISER

Henry Firman trawls Europe's best shows in search of a new boat

How to design modifications for your boat

Yacht designer lan Nicolson explains how to make changes to living space on board

Fair winds to yachtsman Duncan Lougee

Tributes have been paid to a solo skipper who disappeared while sailing his 25ft Folkboat from the UK's south coast to Ireland as part of the Jester Baltimore Challenge.

Calm day antics

Getting close to seabirds, achieving a level horizon... and not dropping the camera

A narrow escape

Dave struggles to remember why owning a classic boat is such a privilege...

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY.

With the level of boating luxury he desired out of his financial grasp, David Vandyke had resigned himself to a boat-free life... until he read an MBY feature about shared ownership

Sinking pontoons and a twisted knee

John Latham experiences an inauspicious start to his cruise from Dublin to Northern Ireland when hit by gale force winds in harbour

SUNSEEKER SUPERHAWK 55

After a 14-year hiatus the Superhawk is back this time tapping into the trend for luxury open dayboats. But does the go-fast spirit of the original live on? Editor Hugo gives his verdict

BOAT CUISINE

Ever heard of a huffer? Nor had Phil Sampson, but he has now!