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Teach Your Autopilot To Be Your Best Crewmember

Rupert Holmes looks at how to set up your pilot so it will steer better than you can

300MPH IN AN AEROPLANE COULD BE DESCRIBED AS QUITE MUNDANE. In a car, it's ludicrously fast. BUT IN A BOAT?

Everyone knows the story of Donald Campbell’s tragic crash on Coniston Water but few remember another all British attempt 15 years earlier. Now a new book reveals what really happened to John Cobb and his jet-powered Crusader

FUEL FOR THOUGHT

What better way to test the production version of the Cox CXO300 than on the brilliant Axopar 37? Is this a new dawn for diesel-fuelled outboards?

MAREX TO THE RESCUE

Monitoring Ch16 turned a routine return journey into a rescue mission for Richard Hall

AQUAHOLIC

Nick Burnham: Boating doesn’t have to be fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants stuff to be fun. Sometimes a chilled weekend aboard is just what the doctor ordered, as Nick attests

THE ULTIMATE UPCYCLE

Why upgrade to a newer boat when you can make your current one look as good as new with the aid of a designer refit service?

FERRETTI 1000

LOA 98ft 10in (30.1m) BEAM 22ft 4in (6.8m) ENGINES MTU 16V 2,217hp – 2,638hp TOP SPEED 28 knots PRICE FROM €8,400,000 ex VAT CONTACT www.ferretti-yachts.com

AZIMUT GRANDE TRIDECK

LOA 125ft 4in (38.2m) BEAM 25ft 11in (7.9m) ENGINES Twin MTU 2,400hp-2,600hp TOP SPEED 24 knots PRICE TBA CONTACT www.azimutyachts.com

NIMBUS C11

The C11 sits at the top Nimbus’s sportsboat tree but can this twin diesel wheel house cruiser justify its hefty price tag?

SUPERMARINE SPEARFISH 32

With the faultless Alan Burnard Fairey hull at its core, can this modern interpretation of a 1960s classic live up to the reputation of its iconic predecessors?

TRAILER TROUBLES

Scratched topsides get stopgap repairs while a Bluetooth-compatible stereo turns up the fun for Hugo Andreae

Whale-watching in Quebec

Liveaboards Belinda Chesman and Kit McAllister mix culture with cetaceans as they cruise Canada’s great St Lawrence river

Remote paddling

The simplest vessels are so often the best

Mind how you go

It’s time to exorcise those mystic influences

Inland innovation

Wilf Lower relives a European inland adventure

Up a creek with no water to paddle

Mike Humphreys calls on his ingenuity and practical skills to rescue a family marooned on a mud bank by the falling tide

Small boats, big cruising

Rupert Holmes describes a selection of very capable small boats for cruising on a budget

God vakt!

Marsali Taylor recalls every detail of a day aboard the tall ship Sørlandet off the coast of Norway

Boat Electrics 101 course review

Nigel Calder and his team of marine electrics experts have hit the mark, says Rupert Holmes

How To Replace Worn Rudder Bushes

Hedley Ritchie shows how he changed the wobbly bushes on his transom-hung rudder to improve his Westerly Konsort’s steering

Viking adventure

Sam Griffiths and his dad camp out under the stars in a 12ft dinghy to enjoy the delights of an historic German waterway

Red herring

Seaspiracy is righteous rather than right

Restoring Andromeda

Clive Robertson swaps a London media career for four years in a boatyard and restores a wooden gaffer from scratch

Steam-bending a new toe rail

Greg Manning shows you how to laminate and steam a plank so that it can be to be bent across its width

The right look

Peter Poland tests the second-hand Swedish production powerboat that just looks ‘right’ to so many ex-sailors

Fleeing a volcanic eruption

Kia Koropp and family up-anchor and grab their face masks when a cloud of black ash descends on the Grenadines

Make or break situation

How you can get snookered when sailing

Old gaffer to Ushant

Max Liberson suffers concussion, ghostly apparitions and crew desertion on a tiring voyage to France

Fitting a new water tank gauge

Measuring your boat’s water capacity is essential for any cruiser, yet is surprisingly hard to get right, discovers Roger Hughes

Fast track to Yachtmaster

When Covid scuppers Josh Lindley’s gap year, he takes on a demanding 5-month sailing course instead to qualify as a skipper