For those dreaming of the joys of owning a yacht, Nick Ridley offers encouragement as well as a look at the harsher reality of financing your dreams

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

Far from being a lightweight trailer sailer, Nic Compton finds the third version of this modern classic to be a serious little cruising boat capable of handling far more than a little creek crawling

Gilbert Park swaps his ageing Mitchell 28 for a soft-riding Seaward 29

OWN UP TO YOUR SAILING SINS

www.yachtingmonthly.com/books In December 1969 Adrienne Howley ...