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TECHNICAL FURLING MAINSAILS

Some sailors swear by furling mainsail systems, others swear at them. Graham Snook looks at ways to keep your furling mainsail in check.

The art of solo cruising

Toby Heppell looks at the art of sailing alone and considers what constitutes good seamanship when it’s only you on board

‘I was jammed. Without my phone I'd be dead'

Martin Blount was fortunate to have survived getting stuck head-first inside his cockpit locker while working alone on his boat

Sailing across Sweden

Mark Blackburn recalls happy memories of his final cruise with his father David along the Göta Canal

MERVYN WHEATLEY ONE LAST ADVENTURE

Toby Heppell speaks to Mervyn Wheatley as he looks ahead to his sixth OSTAR, now re-scheduled to take place in 2021, and ponders the changes in sailing through his decades-long career

ADVENTURE ISLAND ODYSSEY

Erin Carey and her young family cruise the Leeward Islands and discover the region’s distinct cultures and topography

GLENCOE, SCOTLAND

Brian Black discovers history, hill walking and fine dining in this sheltered Highland anchorage

HOME WATERS RETURN TO GUERNSEY

Solo sailor John Willis battles back injury, seasickness and engine problems as he sails the 330 miles from southern Ireland to St Peter Port

A WEEK AFLOAT BRITTANY

The Gulf of Morbihan provides Nick Chavasse with delights aplenty, including quaint anchorages and medieval towns ripe for exploring

SAVING ADLARD COLES' YACHT

Cohoe IV has been in the Osborn family for more than 30 years, but she was commissioned by none other than Adlard Coles

BOSUN'S BAG

PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

PARISIAN POWERBOAT PIONEER

Founded in 1905, Despujols was one of the rst great names of international powerboating. Its nal boats built in the 1960s mark the end of the golden age of varnished wooden runabouts and artisanal yards

TOM CUNLIFFE - THAT SINKING FEELING

Experience may trump theorising, but who thought plugging cracked seams with soap was a good idea?

ON THE WINDS OF THE WAR

General Patton’s plan to sail When and If around the world was never realised – current owner Seth Salzmann intends to full the boat’s destiny

SETH SALZMANN -Thinking big

After a lifetime love affair with schooners, Seth makes manoeuvring his 141-footer look easy

PAINT Finishing TOUCH

We asked Thames boatbuilder Colin Henwood, who teaches finishing to students at the Boat Building Academy, to give us a crash course in paint and varnish. In this second part, he tackles the subject of a perfect traditional gloss paint finish

GROWN GRAB RAILS

In the second of our ‘lockdown projects’ series, we make good use of a wooden windfall

10OF THE BEST SAILING DINGHIES

In years gone by, you’d have had a 12 or 14ft clinker-built, lug-rigged dinghy with a pair of oars, but there is now a plethora of boats to buy, or build from kit or plan

Unseasonality

You can’t rely on the weather in Shetland

If it ain't broke, don't break it

Getting stuck into lockdown inventions

New generation electronics

A few years ago I felt there was a risk that marine electronics manufacturers would find it impossible to compete in a changing marketplace.

How to troubleshoot your engine electrics

If your engine won’t start, knowing how to fi nd the source of the problem will help you get under way quickly, says Rubicon 3’s Bruce Jacobs

Groundbreaking affordable watermaker

Desalinators operate on a simple principle, but to date have generally been prohibitively expensive for many.

Environment review backs highly protected marine zones

Seas around England and Northern Ireland could receive greater protection as a result of a new review by former environment minister Richard Benyon.

Algorithms will aid search and rescue

Researchers at one of the world’s top universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified a new algorithm which could improve search and rescue techniques.

Who Was Really The First To Discover America?

A historical replica voyage has proved that the Phoenicians may well have reached the shores of the new world a full two millennia before Columbus

New School

Slingshot’s windsurfing brand manager, Wyatt Miller, has noticed that kids are drawn to playing with wings and puts forward an interesting case as to why he thinks this could help entice them and others into windsurfing.

Changes

Wave sailor Flo Jung reflects on our changed world during his lockdown in Germany.

THE LAST WAVE

Lockdown stirred the creative juices of reader Björn Alfthan, who peers into the future to present a fictional story set in the wild waves of Norway, five years from now.

STILL IN THE GAME

After a horrific fracture in his leg from a crashed aerial in 2018, Alessio Stillrich is back! John Carter talks to the highflyer from Gran Canaria about his move to the Simmer team, recovering from injury and how he learned to windsurf in Gran Canaria!