Yachting Monthly - April 2016

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April 2016, Number 1,

THE COVER

SAILING SKILLS Expert tips and know-how

16 ON THE COVER Expert on board: A yachtsman’s guide to shipping
To stay safe around shipping, you need to understand it. John Lang explains
24 A question of seamanship ‘How much cable should you veer’?
26 Any questions? • ‘The best ocean yacht?’ • ‘Why stick with old anchors?’

• ‘Add or subtract for GMT? • ‘Why is my chain rusting? • ‘Safe to dry out?’
  28 Learning curve Nigel Calder: ‘I watched my anchor drag – from the shore!’
  30 Skipper’s tips • Katabatic winds • Magnetic disturbance • Tacking a cutter
  32 ON THE COVER Practical seamanship: Pilotage in fog James Stevens
  fi nds himself sailing in fog and brushes up on his poor-visibility pilotage

CRUISING Practical advice & real life sailing stories

34 ON THE COVER Home waters: A shortcut through Scotland Mike Cooke
fi nds a quicker and cheaper way to get from the east coast to the west coast
38 ON THE COVER What makes the Folkboat great The 50th Folkboat
Festival was a celebration of a yacht that is still ‘the boat of the people’
42 Adventure: Put to the test in Greenland Sailing a small boat in the high
Arctic isn’t meant to be easy. Weather and ice test Bob Shepton’s mettle
48 Cruising: Still sailing solo at 94 Peter Garrod has sailed since 1955 and
still cruises the Westerly Renown he bought at the 1971 London Boat Show
52 Anchorages From the Thames to St Kilda and Cornwall to the Caribbean
60 ON THE COVER Piltage: Estonia Dick Durham explores the coast of Estonia,
where yacht harbours are being built in a lost world of forests and islands
68 Cruising log Readers share their cruises in Scotland and the Essex creeks

GEAR & BOAT REVIEWS Useful kit, new & used yachts

76 New gear • Deck fi llers • Soft shackles • Lightweight radar • Durable foulies
78 ON THE COVER Tried and tested • A wind scoop that works • Fuel polisher
82 ON THE COVER Reasons to be paranoid about fuel As emission regulations
tighten up, Nigel Calder warns of unforseen problems for yacht engines
86 ON THE COVER New boat test: Wauquiez PS 48 Graham Snook went to
fi nd out if a proper deck saloon that also has style was too good to be true
90 New boats Four innovative new yachts launched at Europe’s biggest show
92 ON THE COVER Used boat test: Rustler 31 Compact and superbly built, the
Rustler 31 is ideal for a two-man crew. Bob Aylott sails a 1981 model

REGULARS

3 Editor’s letter ‘It’s easy to see ships as enemies’

4 News • Border Force scrutiny of yachts • Olympic

sailing pollution • Record whale mass-stranding

6 Letters • Performance pressure • Never drag again

10 Libby Purves Not all sailors want more marinas

12 Tom Cunliffe Good seamanship is always required

14 Dick Durham Estonian yachts were chain-sawed

50 A good read CC Lynam’s Blue Dragon sinks in port

112 The Confessional Readers own up to their sins...

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Fog can turn a pleasant sail into a navigator’s

nightmare. James Stevens offers some tips

92

Bob Aylott heads

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the legendary Rustler 31

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