It's been great to sail aboard the 1984 28ft Heard cutter Isabel in the Sussex Yacht Club pursuit series of races this year. Owner Aidan Tuckett, a former wooden boat sailor, recently bought the boat and has been enjoying the sometime novelty of being able to sail whenever he likes, with a well found GRP [...]
Setting a watersail is something you can do in light airs to give you that extra half knot of speed. Typically watersails hang below the boom of a fore and aft sailing vessel, and mostly, on yachts, they are old jibs, or even the spare number two or three where you attach the tack to [...]
We have some great stories this month. Our coverline: Boats on a budget reflects the amazing bargains that can be snapped up at present - particularly some of the superb seaworthy glassfibre classics from the 1970s/80s... can a sailor, we asked, buy a cabin boat for less than £4K and then run it for under [...]
