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August 2024

Yachting Monthly

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

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Greater Forces
Like any microcosm, the world of sailing simultaneously pales into insignifcance alongside some global issues – the world-changing events of the Second World War, the battle for gender equality, and the growing climate crisis – yet it can also be the
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French Protocol To Boost Visitor Numbers
Sailors planning to cross the Channel to France this summer should have an easier time checking in and out, thanks to a new French protocol introduced on 1 June in response to a big drop in yachting visitors. Yachts arriving in France from outside th
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Wreck Of Shackleton’s Ship Found
Wreck explorers have located Quest, the ship on which explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage to Antarctica, on the seabed off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Shackleton, an Anglo-Irish explorer who made three expeditions to Antarctic
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News In Numbers
26,000 The owner of a day fishing vessel was fined £26,000 for repeatedly travelling the wrong way along a shipping lane in the Dover Strait in 2022. 2,735 There were 2,735 civilian search and rescue helicopter ‘taskings’ in the UK in the year to Mar
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Clean Water Campaign For Water Sports
The governing bodies of seven water-based sports have united to call for clean open water around the UK. Representing 450,000 members as well as athletes and participants, the Clean Water Sports Alliance includes the Angling Trust, British Rowing, Br
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Nominations open for YJA Journalist Award
The Yachting Journalist Association (YJA) is inviting entries for the Young Journalist of the Year award. It is open to anyone under the age of 30 who is writing, filming or taking photographs. Entries must be submitted via the YJA website by August
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RNLI Lifesavers Honoured
Eight RNLI volunteers and staff have been recognised in The King’s Birthday Honours for a combined 304 years of dedicated service to saving lives at sea. Former volunteer at Longhope Lifeboat Station, Angus Heddle, has been awarded an MBE for 75 year
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Team GB set for Paris 2024 Olympics
No sailing nation has been more successful at the Olympic Games than Great Britain; a mammoth 31 Olympic gold medals for Team GB in the sailing arena is 11 more than second-placed United States on the all-time medal table. An additional 21 silver and
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Expedition To Study Climate Change
A crew of world-class explorers, award-winning filmmakers and young scientists have embarked on a four-month sailing expedition through the Northwest Passage to study the key climate ‘tipping points’. The crew will film their journey from Norway to A
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Geoff Holt Completes Record-breaking British Voyage
Geoff Holt MBE has completed a circumnavigation of the UK, with the goal of raising £1.2m for The Wetwheels foundation, a charity he set up in 2011 to enable disabled people to access the sea barrier-free in purpose-built, state-of-the-art motor boat
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Letters
Dear Theo, I admire your courage in taking the Yachtmaster course. There was one programme that did calculate the course to steer called Neptune Navigation. It only applied to UK waters, because the tidal diamond information is related to the chart.
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Editor Theo Stocker 07984 026406, theo.stocker@futurenet.com Deputy editor Heather Prentice 07751 746468, heather.prentice@futurenet.com Technical editor Dennis O’Neill 07928 506927, dennis.oneill@futurenet.com Senior sub-editor Sarah Williams Group
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The Glory Days When Water Was Scarce
Water management isn’t something we talk about enough on our cruising boats. Blue-water sailors think about it a lot, obviously, and we have, in our time, installed – and mothballed – two watermakers, both hungry for power (meaning fuel) and time. Th
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Cruising With A ‘Hot Little Sailor’
There’s a scene in the film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where outlaws Paul Newman and Robert Redford watch from a crag as the distant posse chases them. To their dismay they recognise, from his white hat, a tracker whose tenacity invariably
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Saffier Se33life
Nine! Nine point five! Ten! Eleven! Eleven point five!’ Watching the boat speed climb into double figures in the gusts was addictive; we were broad reaching back up the Needles Channel towards Hurst Castle with a Force 5 up our stern, a smooth wake f
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SKIPPERS’ TIPS & YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
HARRY DEKKERS is an RYA YAchtmaster Offshore. He was formerly Commanding Officer of the Royal Netherlands Navy’s sail training vessel JAMES KENNING is an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore. He has crossed both Biscay and the Atlantic, and is now in the Med abo
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How Do We Choose New Sheets And Lines?
Q I wonder whether one of your experts could advise on some replacement ropes for our yacht, a 1980s Dehler 31 with a displacement of a little over three tonnes? Rope technology seems to improve all the time and we want to make good choices taking lo
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Take The Yachtmaster Practical Exam
The RYA Yachtmaster Offshore has long been the qualification that cruising yacht sailors, both amateur and professional, have aspired to. Quite aside from the fact that it is the gateway to working in the yachting industry if the desire so takes you,
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A Question Of Seamanship
Q Martin and Barbara, along with their teenage son, Rob, have sailed across to the Channel Islands from the Solent in their 10m yacht. Rob has crewed regularly and already has a better idea of how to use the new electronic chart system and AIS than h
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‘There’s A Rat In My Kitchen!’
Rat in Mi Kitchen, one of the greats by UB40, proved to have a whole new meaning when sailing in Greece this year. A rodent infestation was far from my mind as we slipped between idyllic anchorages, enjoyed breath-taking sunsets, stunning vistas and
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Conwy To The Inner Hebrides
SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE AWARD Bleary eyed, we stumbled out of our sleeping bags as the boat rocked gently on her berth. Fumbling around we clad ourselves with nautical attire, had some breakfast and prepared for the high seas. It was three in the morning
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Spirit Of Adventure Award
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Sailing The Normandy Beaches
After the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in June 1940, Winston Churchill promised, ‘We will return’. Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied landing operation which took place on this part of the Normandy coast
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Sailing’s Invisible Woman
For the first time in its history, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will achieve gender parity. For sailing, this means four women’s events, four men’s events and two mixed events – therefore equal chances for men and women to win medals. At the 194
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Your Cruising Community
Graduates from the Boat Building Academy and Furniture School (BBA) at Lyme Regis recently launched their new hand-built boats in the town’s historic harbour, in a ceremony hosted by Mayor Councillor David Ruffle in front of hundreds of well wishers.
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Scurrying to Skagen
Cruising yachts in Scandinavia make a beeline for the Danish town of Skagen over every Ascension Day holiday in May. Nearly all of the entrants are production cruisers. This, along with the international fellowship, makes the event feel more like a c
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No Turning Back
www.yachtingmonthly.com/books Peter Webb and his companion, Royal Marine, Phil Ashby (Shaggy), were attempting to row and sail Kotick, an open boat, round Spitzbergen and had reached a point where they must either turn back or continue. When I woke u
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New Gear
www.fischerpanda.co.uk/marine A new range of compact, lightweight lift-in-and-out lithium electric ‘generators’, designed for small to medium requirements of onboard portable power, with a built-in sine-wave inverter, giving both 12V and 230V suuply.
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HOW IT WORKS TENSIONING WIRE & ROD
If you want to trim your rig correctly you should have some idea of the tension in the shrouds and stays, either by rules of thumb or a more exact method, such as this. Here, you measure the stretch of the wire as a percentage and then establish the
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Power Management On Board
I confess, I’m not a marine electrician, and my understanding of boat electronics is at best rudimentary, but I’ve now been managing my boat’s power generation and consumption for three seasons and have developed an approach which seems to work well.
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How To Improve Onboard Battery Management …and Power Generation
Before increasing the capacity of your service battery bank you need to calculate your total power requirement by multiplying the amperage of all the equipment by the period of time it will be run over a charge cycle (usually 24hrs). Tally up the amp
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Bavaria 30 Cruiser
After starting to sail less than 15 years ago, TREVOR CARD took his Yachtmaster, has chartered a range of boats overseas and is also an active dinghy sailor. The Bavaria is his first cruiser When you’re looking for a second-hand boat, it’s often easy
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Alternatives To Consider
Bill Dixon’s design from 1994 was one of the ‘sporty’ Moodys, designed to compete with the lighter, faster and roomier performance cruisers from across the Channel. Moody’s idea was to offer a boat to appeal to people who considered the traditional M
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The Confessional
Simon Hiles It was a holiday weekend in 1997, the good weather had caused an exodus from the Clyde marinas and everyone had the same plan; a quiet night at anchor. It was teatime when The Skipper (TS) and First Mate arrived at the Wood Farm Rock anch