Subic to Boracay, racing off Langkawi and the 29th Four Peaks Race  •  quiet ‘givers’, Kai Tak receives visitors, criminalization of seafarers, Star Ferry’s Harbour Tour, Russian visitor, justice denied, Simon Murray challenged  •  Burma’s river fleet scuttled and East India Co  •  patrol craft for Hong Kong and blurred roles for China’s men o’war  •  German wines

China Cup, King’s Cup, the Raja Muda and Round the Island for the racing fraternity, also some physical competition for the swimmers in Victoria Harbour  •  Lung Mei, marina in Macau, Lamma options, sailing apps and the resilient Hunter Impala  •  scanning the scroll  •  the world of liqueurs  •  Japan boosts defences, Taiwan responds, expats in the marine police  •  roundup of regional shows

Opening and Autumn Regattas, Phuket Raceweek and Hebe Haven Yacht Club’s Typhoon Series  •  Diaoyu heroes, Lamma quarry worry, Xiamen shipping hub, Tsuen Mun waterfront and pirates are getting smarter  • HMS Hood, goodbye Tung Chung and were the Phoenicians the first  •   putting a Dominator 62 through its paces   •  supporting China’s maritime ambitions  •   showed out

Racing in Koh Samui, racing in Subic Bay, dragon boat racing, Top of the Gulf Regatta and a rally for Classic Yachts  •  containers overboard, HKPN ratings migrate, Tung Ping Chau, asylum seekers and IIs   •  Tai O Heritage Hotel and Huan on display   •  Aussie warship project, Sino-Russian naval exercises and Scarborough shoal standoff   •  Qingdao and Gold Coast shows 

The Boracay Cup, a regatta for paraws in Iloilo and a Hobie Challenge, preceded by the classic China Sea Race, rounded off with the popular Nations’ Cup  •  mother smugglers, arming and harming, Belitung wreck controversy, Adastra, mini junks and invading hairy crabs  •  Cutty Sark reopens  •  the forgotten Spratly claimant and containing Chinese expansion

King’s Cup, Four Peaks and Macau Races, Southside, Raja Muda and Langkawi Regattas  •  harbour for developers, underage circumnavigator, fill in Po Toi gap, Baroque on the rocks, case of déjà vu, Francis Liu, giant headaches, Escape from Hong Kong, appeal for justice, Clube Náutico De Macau’s problems, solar panels, Beidou, powerful tugs  •  Cheoy Lee Alpha 76 review  •  Bordeaux and Burgundy  •  Asian navies deploy, Seychelles support for Chinese, piracy on Mekong  •  Marina Cove and London shows

A race to Vietnam, China Coast Regatta, China Cup and Round the Island Race  •  Kai Tak forever, cross harbour swim, Chinese utopia  • Green Island Lighthouse  •  mariners go to prison, Nautical Institute seminar  •  mmmm, paella  •  Russian battle cruisers for Cam Ranh, Vietnamese build warships, Philippine security  •  Southampton and Macau (sort of) shows

Opening Regatta, Phuket Raceweek and the near perfect Typhoon Series  •  bewildering bridge, fish sizes, star wars, Hengqin’s ascendancy, too few crew, Satnav woes to think about  •  review of a Fairline Squadron 42  •  British guards for Chinese ships, Chinese carrier sets sail, Aussie naval air power  •  investment in wine
worth considering

Racing in Koh Samui, Top of the Gulf Regatta, a rally for classics, Dragon Boat Carnival  •  dangerous waters, sizes does matter, rocks we know, too much sailing, hearts and minds, Macau gets bigger  •  preserving our dockyard heritage  •  Indian Navy goes nuclear, unchecked Spratlys audacity, Japanese in Djibouti  •  Seawork, Gold Coast and Qingdao shows

Across the pond to San Fernando, Subic Bay racing, Bay Regatta gets bigger  •  8-metre waves, wet protest, handicaps, shelters to marinas, model man, Reverend Ellis, HK$100 chart plotter  •  patterns of piracy, Philippine Navy aims high, amphibious ship for Oz, Vietnam responds to disputes  •  review of two French boats: the Prestige 60 and Jeanneau 57

Four Peaks Race, Boracay Cup, Philippine Hobie Challenge, Langkawi and Straits Regattas, the classic Hong Kong to Macau Race at Chinese New Year  •  Asia’s second-class city, tempting fate, Rainbow Waffler, mutinous cadets, sailing off Cambodia  •  helmets deserve display, First Opium War cannon, forts and museums of Humen  •  hospital ship diplomacy, Russian carrier coming soon, RAN amphibious fleet  •  London Boat Show and Asian Work Boat

Round the Island and King’s Cup, Southside Regatta and Raja Muda, 2nd Asian Beach Games and China Cup  •  lost years, scraping the bottom, Hong Kong needs a shipping secretary, sink or swim, Sailability, walking from Sheung Wan to Kennedy Town  •  Passagemaker 60 review  •  Russians return to Cam Ranh Bay, 21st century piracy  •  the Marina Cove show must go on

China Coast Regatta and 24-hour Aquathon, Port Shelter Regatta and Hobie 16 Worlds  •  interesting articles about the Guia Light, licences to sail, the waste cycle, Anglo-Eastern’s academy, wetlands under threat, HKPN dual scoring, shark’s fin-ished  •  Macau’s Museu Maritimo  •  Monterey 355SY sea trials  •  Diaoyus or Senkakus? •  Southampton and Qingdao boat shows

Typhoon Series, Koh Samui Regatta, Phuket Raceweek, Borneo Challenge and Dragon Boat Carnival  •  class act, maintaining a proper lookout, ruining Victoria Harbour, Nicholas Brooke, salvage, when the oil runs out  •  looking at Sauternes and Barsac  •  Seychelles takes on the pirates, Chinese warships for Timor, US throws down gauntlet

The ABC’s Classic Yacht Rally, Stanley dragon boat racing, Typhoon Series and Top of the Gulf Regatta  •  port storm, how fragrant is our harbour, slick operation, Carrie Lam, belaying to a cleat  •  Nanhai No.1, money for heritage divers  •  putting the Aleutian 65RP through its paces  •  fishing ban and maritime plan, big warships for RAN  •  Gold Coast boat show

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s Spring Regatta, China Sea Race and Commodore’s Cup for competitive sailors  •  MYC vs SBYC, arguments between friends, contained explosion, Christine Loh, Kayu Manis, terminal update, shipping fights back, Wan Chai to Sheung Wan and a book that changed the world  •  sinking of Korean warship and Taiwan navy support

8th Royal Langkawi Regatta, grueling Four Peaks Race, all the way to Macau and back, Kowloon Cup, Southside and Straits Regatta  •  comments on redundant America’s Cup boats, Harbourfront Enhancement Committee, Winston Chu and Paul Zimmerman, ambling from North Point to Wan Chai  •  Guangzhou heritage, sonar settles mysteries  •  eastward shift in power and stealing sand

The annual King’s Cup, Andres Bonifacio and Raja Muda Regattas  •  Beidou, harsh sentences, flawed system, murky waters, Roger Tupper, walking from Shau Kei Wan to North Point, shark man  •  escape from Hong Kong in motor torpedo boats  •  bread  •  test driving a Grand Banks 41 Heritage EU  •  Chinese warships for Pakistan, China’s carrier ambitions, piracy scourge

China Coast Race Week, Round the Island, racing for charity, Port Shelter Regatta, China and Weihai Cups  •  Extreme 40s in the harbour, China Navigation leaves town, a bridge more far, nasty ships, monitoring the port, MHQ pulls a crowd, licensed to sail anywhere, Mike Horn  •  bread  •  good old Dyna 65  •  China and India and hovercraft  •  SIBEX ‘quality attendance’, Southampton show

World Games in Kaohsiung, Samui Regatta, Phuket Raceweek and the ever popular Typhoon Series  •  PIPPS will get you, pier imagination, Winnie Ng, Pier 8 update, tunnel crossings, Bay of Concrete, Doulos days  •  Shau Kei Wan   •  OPV built in Thailand, Taiwan warships for Africa, Korea Coast Guard  •  consuming the first oyster  •  Asian Open Regatta supplement

Lamma 500, Spring Regatta, Tsing Ma Regatta, Typhoon Series, Top of the Gulf and Aberdeen Dragon Boat Race  •  Greying Positioning System, Plastic Pacific, recycling of ships, Hebei Spirit two freed, Waglan Lighthouse needs a wealthy patron  •  piloting a Nacra Infusion  •  stealth frigates for Singapore, Malaysian and Vietnamese subs, Var  •  Qingdao show still going

17th President’s Cup Regatta, San Fernando Race and the unique Iloilo Paraw Regatta  •  no justice, Kai Tak proposals, cruise initiative, 40th anniversary for Sir Robin, walking from Kwun Tong to Lei Yue Mun  •  riverboat straightened out, Tai Loy and seabed mapping  •  Barry Hill’s Jeanneau cruiser/racer  •  marine police status, UN deadline, PLA Navy fleet review

Neil Pryde takes the Raja Muda, there’s a race to Vietnam, a King’s Cup, China Cup and 24-hour charity dinghy race  •  waterfront dreams and battles, Korean justice, winds off Clearwater Bay and a walk from Hung Hom to Kai Tak  •  China, India jostle for influence in East Timor and the Malaysian navy off Somalia  •  South African braaivleis  •  showtime Phuket, London, Marina Cove

China Coast, Opening and Autumn Regattas, along with the Phuket Raceweek  •  plan for a rescue, saving the Sokos, wave power, cooking in the Australian navy, winds south of Lamma  •  China in Africa, the Brits return, Somalis capture Hong Kong vessel  •  barbecues in Britain, Oz and the States  •  Southampton Show still setting standards

The Beatrix Cup, Typhoon Series and sailing in Samui  •  Sokos saga, the death knell of HKPN, pursuit racing, bai san, a walk from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hung Hom, winds in Port Shelter  •  winemakers who mess up  •  review of the Atlantis 50 HT  •  warship visits and offshore disputes, target Taiwan’s offshore islands, Burmese Navy blues  •  Seawork 2008

A rally for vintage and classic craft, Spring, Tsing Ma and Top of the Gulf Regattas, China Sea Race  •  clean shipping, sunny side down, Nargis hits Yangon Sailing Club, seafarer shortage, winds in the harbour  •  pirates have rights, Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean, RAN heritage  •  China Maritime, Boat Asia, Qingdao and Gold Coast boat shows

Four Peaks Race, Iloilo paraws, Manila to Boracay, Pearl River crossing, Straits and Langkawi Regattas  •  starting the China Sea Race in the harbour, Neftegaz-67, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Asia’s Surf City  •  Bavaria 37 Sport and Jeanneau Merry Fisher reviews  •  Thais revive subs, RAN in rough seas, 
Kitty Hawk and Nimitz prowl off Taiwan, plundering fish stocks

Sportsboat championships, King’s Cup, Raja Muda, SEA Games and Hong Kong’s popular Round the Island Race  •  pier pressure, cruise hubbub, wharf of fame, Heibei Spirit, rambling Yau Ma Tei, mangroves and money  •  mustard, cork  •  Indians go nuclear  •  114 craft at Marina Cove show, PIMEX  •  Philippine Hobie
Challenge supplement

China Coast Regatta, Hong Kong to Hainan, Middle Island Regatta, first China Cup, 24-hour dinghy race for charity  •  Alexander Grantham, criminalization of seafarers, dealing with disasters, Doulos doing good, bumboats, blossom boys  •  Diesel Duck 382 and Sebrie-28 reviews  •  Cambodian navy transforms, Kiwi navy the best  •  Southampton boat show

Phuket Race Week, the Opening, Autumn and Port Shelter Regattas, Typhoon Series  •  rules is rules, boat sharing can work, Qingdao Naval Museum, the fascinating Rambler Channel and Tsuen Wan Bay  •  sweet wines and food  •  a look at the China-assembed ArrowCat 30  •  PLA raises its profile in Europe, Orions for Taiwan with subs to follow?

Typhoon Seres, a race to Macau, Discovery Bay and Koh Samui Regattas  •  fishing follies, web weather, Beneteau and the China Cup, yo ho ho and a bottle of mao tai, resurrection of J Class, examing the Ma Wan Channel  •  a Cranchi 47 review   •  Aussies buy Spanish, police go hitech, SAREX 2007  •  Asian interests at Sea Work International

Top of the Gulf and Tsing Ma Regattas, across the Asian Sea to San Fernando, Spring Regatta in Victoria Harbour  •  Galileo had no clothes, history is bunk, marine art, paddling against poverty, bare boats and bare facts, Queen’s Pier  •  Riviera 56 review, RIBs rule  •  ops tanker for RAN, subs and carriers paramount  •  Qingdao Show persevering, Boat Asia 2007

All the way from Manila to Boracay, all the way to Macau and back, President’s Cup  •  bores we’ve known, Battles of Britain, early charts of Hong Kong waters, tech-savvy club, Phil Blake, Yangon Sailing Club, toons and tubs  •  cheese  •  Jeanneau and Azimut boat reviews  •  taking on the pirates, China’s naval air power  •  Gold Coast Boat Show

Four Peaks Race, Paraw, Straits and Langkawi Regattas, a Wizard perspective  •  Galileo meets market forces, typhoon twitchy, course navigation, Garden City to Water World, Tung Shun Lung  •  survey of cheese-eating nations  •  trimaran for Ozzie customs, frigates for Malaysia and OPVs for Thailand, missile corvettes to boost Jakarta’s power

King’s Cup, Class Regatta, Round the Island, Waterski, Wakeboard & Barefoot, the Raja Muda  •  save the Sokos, Beneteau Rendezvous, brandy for the parson, new regs, Mana from Bintan, the Star Ferry: who cares?   •  Hammerhead review  •  Aussies go in again, Taiwanese police vessels  •  London, Langkawi, Marina Cove and PIMEX boat shows

China Coast Race Week, Oppie Nationals, Middle Island Regatta, Hobie Asian Championships, Macau Race and racing for charity  •  fish aggregating devices, volunteers needed, Johore to take Singapore, Port Hamilton, Trengganu rising, Diaoyu want to know a secret  •  review of a Princess 67 Flybridge  •  Philippine navy against terror, Hanoi challenges Beijing

Autumn and Opening Regattas, Disney Islands Race, Typhoon Series and, down south, the Borneo Challenge  •  Sokos scheming, now hear this, sails pitch, go jump in the harbour and Strait expedition on a jet ski  •  Sri Lanka sea war escalates, drawn to East Timor  •  Southampton Show still one of the best  • two supplements for the Darts and the Hobies

Phuket Race Week, Koh Samui Regatta, Typhoon Series and a Wakefest in Hong Kong  •  alcohol effects, DB developments, Roger Tupper, white sails, try a Tirion, lights in the Taiwan Strait  •  cork fights back  •  review of a Seahorse 52 trawler  •  Chinese sea missile on target, another warship disaster, piracy in the Malacca Strait  •  Sea Work show

Top of the Gulf, Classic Yacht Rally, China Sea Race, President’s Cup and Spring Regattas  •  no forecast, no pay, polluting merchantmen, Tai Tam tales, fear of sailing, lighthouses south of Shanghai  •  fine dining  •  the Sunseeker Predator 55  •  trouble in the Spratlys, Indian warship sinks, problems for Taiwan’s navy  •  Pattaya and Qingdao shows, Boat Asia

Langkawi Regatta  •  trouble over bridged waters, heave ho, medals and meddling, Liaotung peninsula lighthouses, blood from sand, wet but worth it, a misplaced dream, Alexander Grantham  •  sausages  •  upping the stakes in the Spratlys, Camobdia gets warships from China, undersea Indonesian firepower, Malaysians follow the trend  •  Gold Coast Show, China Maritime and Boat Tech China

Paraws racing in Iloilo, Straits Regatta, Boracay and Four Peaks Races, all the way to Macau and back  •  windage, sailing PR, three Chuas, hip, hip, hip, Singapore beats Hong Kong to it, sunset for P&O, Hai Nguyet, Bobbotti made in Myanmar  •  champagne and sparkling wine  •  subs for Singapore, changing face of piracy, Sri Lankan sea war erupts again

King’s Cup in Phuket, Sydney Hobart Race, lasers, Round the Island in Hong Kong  •  maritime myths, badly delivered, maritime museum, lights around the Pohai Sea  •  bad wine labels  •  two Kidds for Taiwan, more power to Australia’s Coastwatch  •  Marina Cove show, PIMEX and London show  •  Four Peaks Race supplement

China Coast Race Week, Wakeboard Worlds, Wee Su Meng, charity race,  Port Shelter Regatta  •  hot air, Não and then, Scots cartographical saboteur, northern lights, magnetic attraction, tow, tow, tow the boat  •  olive oil  •     China . . . a naval superpower, offshore spat, China to build ships for the RN?  • boat show in Cape Town

Opening Regatta, autumn races to Macau and in Victoria Harbour  •  Asia leads again, threats to the Soko Islands, Galileo fudge, Maritime Museum opens, lights around Shanghai, Taiwan in China  •  binge drinking  •  review of a Vitech 75  •  Sarex 05, Burmese Navy expansion, York and Black Rover in Hong Kong  •  big Southampton show

Typhoon Series, Macau Race, Up to Longcheer, gold for Chen Li-li, Phuket Race Week  •  birds died, growing pains, Galileo gropes along, happy anniversary, one for the money, Alexander Grantham, Cheung Chau charm, Lights China Coast (3), bye, baby bunting, for export to Norway  •  potato  •  flat-top for South Korea  •  Sydney show, Seawork 2005  •  Asia Open Regatta 2005 notice of race

Borneo Cup, Top of the Gulf and Tropical Island Regattas, Classic Yacht Rally, Typhoon Series and DBYC Pursuit Race  •  El Nino takes a break, no sweat, make a forecast, another talk fest, reptile rescue, the bells, hooked for sure, lights for Hong Kong and approaches  •  Australia and Asian wines  •  private security in Malacca Strait, veteran police vessels retire  •  Qingdao show

China’s America’s Cup bid, San Fernando Race, President’s Cup, Spring Regatta  •  AIS revisited, China’s stake in Galileo, maritime myopia, Shanghai-ed, Loick Peyron, 80 liveaboards later, why Hong Kong?  •  guide to buying wine  •  surge in Singapore sea power, Asian maritime dispute, China to the rescue, Brunei’s dead corvettes  •  Gold Coast Show and Boat Asia

Langkawi and Iloilo Paraw regattas, Boracay Race, Chinese New Year Macau Race, softening of the Four Peaks Race  •  Dame Ellen succeeds, Automatic Identification . . . Sometimes, Galilean fudge, GMDSS, around the world in 50 days, six yachts caught in the Cultural Revolution  •  Beneteau First 44.7 review  •  care of the Senkaku ‘Light’, Taiwan tests waters

Singapore Straits Regatta, Hobie Challenge in the Philippines, Round Ubin Race  •  fellowship of the sea, Ukraine for Galileo, post-tsunami hydrography, GPS usually wonderful, tsunami tides, Chalong horror, Kata chaos, Orca talk, the shores of Johore and Pahang States  •  O-tofu  •  US military returns to Taiwan, piracy trends, USVs . . . warships of the future  •  London Boat Show

Raja Muda followed by the King’s Cup, Roung the Island Race in Hong Kong  •  Galileo zooms on, watch out Ellen, Western navies collapsing, impotent seahorse, Power Cruising, Japanese kamikaze boats (shinyo) on Lamma  •  Silverton 34 Convertible  •  China Maritime Safety Administration, maritime tensions, au revoir Peter Burbidge King  •  Marine Cove and Phuket shows

China Coast Race Week, Tsing Ma Regatta, Macau Race, Five Pubs, 24 Hours Dinghy Race, Hong Kong to Vietnam  •  take the money, unwritten secrets, moor or less, stiffed by a jelly fish, looking astern  •  saffron  •  zooming around in a Cranchi Endurance 41  •  PLA frigates, North Korean incursions, China’s hegemony challenged  •  Cape boat show

Akiko Sakai, Autumn and Opening Regattas, the ever popular Typhoon Series  •  text messaging the answer, Galileo games, Mirabella V, told you so, not quite leviathans of the deep  •  squid  •  Sunrunner 33 sea trial  •  seapower crucial as conflict looms, carrier plans revealed  •  pleasant location for the Malaysia show, Southampton again

Our national sport, Typhoon Series should evolve, Singapore regatta  •  missed the boat, lawful occasions, it’s a gas, new harbours in Malaysia, charting for chums, harbour blues, final hours of the 2nd MTB Flotilla, which waterfall?  •  Bordeaux 2003 en primeur  •  US changes carriers over Taiwan, security in
the Malacca Strait

First four races of the Typhoon Series, Open Dinghy Regatta  •  once a lemon, all quiet on the windy front, Dizzyland, plastic beaches, fair exchange, piggy’s paradise, marine life, no fuel like an old fuel, Spirit of Outward Bound Hong Kong, the MTBs, why is Repulse Bay?  •  cinnamon  •  Princess 65 and Azimut 40  •  Chinese in Iraq, new life for RNZN  •  HHYC open day,
Seawork International

In Thailand, the Koh Samui Regatta, in Hong Kong, the Tsing Ma and Spring Regattas  •  converting the old Marine Police HQ into a heritage hotel, harbour theme park, club publications, keeping marinas afloat, slippery character, waterfront encounters, Z-Tech tugs  •  new marine police commander, pirates or Indonesian Navy, PLAN shows who’s boss  •  Qingdao show

Paraw Regatta in Iloilo, President’s Cup in Subic and China Sea Race  •  pontoons everywhere and too few yots, pure as nature intended, conservation, hidden treasure, how many beans make five?   •  cashew nuts  •  offshore missile barrier, SAR asset for Japan, Spratly moves, Thais brighten the gloom  •  Dubai and Shanghai shows, Boat Asia in Singapore

Singapore Straits Regatta, Macau Race, Australians rule, Ranger recreation  •  moor . . . to the point, trunk call, Galileo shmoozes with GPS, browner and browner, water everywhere, poached fish, have a whale of a time, a Senhouse slip, don’t lose the plot  •  blachan  •  Japan’s carrier, boost for Vietnam sea power, pirates beware  •  Gold Coast and London shows, PIMEX

King’s Cup, Bruno Peyron’s Orange, Laser Class championships, Raja Muda Regatta  •  lies, damned lies, swing yuloh, cod wars again, red herring, lucrative filth, ice with yours?  •  sherry  •  Pershing 52 review  •  SAR ships for Philippines, Singapore Navy
off Iraq, US Navy in Vietnam, tension in the Taiwan Straits  •  supplements for Gold Coast Show, Hobie Challenge and
Four Peaks Race

China Coast and Port Shelter Regattas, Hainan Race, Perfidious Albion and Hobies on Lake Taal  •  mistaking puff for fame, curious industry, rights of passage, legal position, no maritime history in Hong Kong, planning with GPS matters  •  Bordeaux vintages, kilawin  •  PLA goes international, Spratlys dispute revived  •  Marina Cove show returns after eight years

Opening and Autumn Regattas, dragon boat enduro, dinghies in Port Shelter  •  the worldwide spread of dragon boating, Pacific ambitions, radar reflectors, rambling tale, back to Magellan and Drake, off the menu, essential GPS equipment  •  foie gras  •  anti-terror blockade at Changi, Aussies host exercise, celestial navigation  •  Shouthampton Show

Typhoon Series, Cowes Week, Omega sponsors Asian Yachting Circuit, Round the Island  •  blue surge, dialing 999, why a sheet, the harmless albatross, Delano more, distant Ophir, tours get close to nature, Borobudur ship expedition, puzzled reflections, HKYA notional authority  •  William the Conqueror, corks  •  Manila to upgrade Peacocks, PLA Navy’s long-range ambitions

Typhoon Series attracts 57 starters, Karl Kwok and the Transpac  •  yotreps, alphabet soup, death by a thousand chitties, Galileo’s future in doubt, Madame Maurène’s 50th, dolphin mania, monster jellies, new order for Adventure Ship, Götheborg project progresses, about Hong Kong’s national sailing authority  •  abalone  •  Dyna 48 review  •  illegal immigration,
trouble in paradise

Consistent 52 starters for Typhoon Series, Spring Regatta,
Zapcat thrills, Koh Samui a worry for King’s Cup  •  international boating licences, the kraken awakes, mere prejudice, catch 21.352145, cruising places for gunkholers, El Niño fades away, muddy waters, the new tug Lamma  •  Bordeaux, Gulf War, Parker  •  Taiwan’s growing sea power, ship security, Merlins for Japan  •  Seawork 2003

Iloilo paraws, President’s Cup Regatta, Not the San Fernando Race  •  Galileo rolls on, SARS backwards, lotus effect, fewer typhoons, GMDSS just not in gear, crafty speech, destination Penang  •  sesame  •  Riviera 47 Flybridge Convertible  •  RAN seizes drug ship, disaffected elements within PLAN  •  Shanghai show  •  Typhoon Series supplement

San Fernando Coastal Race, 61 boats for inaugural Langkawi Regatta, Round Cheung Chau Canoe Race  •  cleaning up, Flag Q, spring is sprung, paddlepower, nanny’s horns, RIB adventure, Pangkor and Lumut, galley proof, nice day out  •  Prowler 9000 from Thai Marine  •  cheers to real ale makers  •  prelude to Inchon, PN takes on terrorists, Sea Tigers ignore peace deal, Wessex warhorse bows out

Philippine Hobie Nationals, Hobie Challenge, Manila to Boracay, Phang Nga Bay Regatta, Andaman Sea Rally, Chinese New Year Macau Race  •  head case, mad sailor, Sea Witch record challenge, Macao’s Captain Bligh, up the Malacca Straits, Billy  •  star anise  •  Princess 45  •  warships for Vietnam, power challenge in Taiwan Strait, go-ahead for giant carriers  •  San Fernando
Race supplement

Straits Regatta, Four Peaks Race, freshwater sailing in Taal Lake Volcano Series, Uin-na-Mara Series  •  safety for bureaucrats, pork-barrel pelican, flippin’ poles, accidents at sea, cheap talk, Melaka, ocean currents prediction  •  cider  •  Laster SB³  •  tragedy off Pedro Branca, sea terror, Japan raises ‘spy ship’  •  Gold Coast Boat Show, London Boat Show

Round the Island Race, Raja Muda and King’s Cup, Varuna Cup, Tsing Ma Regatta, 24-hour charity dinghy race  •  go nap, stiffing the past, a feast for lawyers, a last frontier, left stranded, Peninsular Malaysia North, bored to death  •  Cranchi Zaffiro 34 review  •  Singapore’s defence industry tentacles spread, warship projects  •  Philippine Hobie Challenge supplement

China Coast Race Week, Asian Games  •  keeping in touch, indestructible charts, America’s Cup in Singapore, confusion, race relations, Samurai in Spain, Götheborg III, cruise giants merge, Kuala Terengganu, magnetic field detectives  •  Ferretti 730  •  Chinese ‘spy ship’ off Taiwan, JMSDF review, Philippine Coast Guard emerges  •  Four Peaks Race supplement

Macallan Regatta, COA Macau Race, Autumn Regatta  •  GMDSS slammed, junk fiction, the bottom line, sharks and rogues, green with terror, STS Esmeralda, Peninsular Malaysia South, HSBC finances voyages, trick or treaty?  •  Chinese frigates for Pakistan, RAN base for Christmas Island  •  reviews of Ferretti 810 and Aquascape 17  •  Southampton Show

Dragon Boat championships, Cork and Hamilton Island Race Weeks, Five Pubs  •  Banyan bye bye, cut loose, jigged venture, whales, French connection, Riau Islands, International Meddling Organisation, canal life archive  •  sea cucumbers, finest foods  •  marine police assets, camouflage at sea, African security from Asia  •  Fairline Phantom 46, Cheoy Lee 125

Typhoon Series, Jilin Pro Jump  •  GMDSS, timing, oceans will get warmer, wherry funny, light’s rights, interview with Sithu Moe Myint, Myanmar’s place in Asia, Nongsa, Powerfoil rules the waves, safeguarding maritime inheritance, Triton makes design waves  •  bird’s nest soup, wine of India  •  Indonesians unfit for battle, destroyer on the rocks, undersea arms race  •  Azimut 55  •  Qingdao Show

Yachting world agog, no more self-destruct liferafts, electronic charts and SOLAS, second thoughts, don’t rely on it, out like a light, turned turtle, whale worship, squall stories, ocean stirring affects climate, siren tames ocean depths, Cheoy Lee’s tug, Voyager in Asia  •  Korean maritime conflict, Hong Kong’s missile craft, Kiwi navy’s new course  •  Typhoon Series, All China Sports Meeting  •  Seawork 2002

Lost the plot, Galileo flies again, the Kra Canal awakes, saw you coming, maritime crime web, less foul news, Langkawi, sock it to them, VAT’s news, fire-fighting capabilities improved  •  frogs  •  Vietnam makes headway, carrier project gathers speed, seaplane revival, PLA Navy goes global  •  Open Dinghy Regatta, Volvo Ocean Race, Tsing Ma and Spring Regattas, Coronation Cup  •  Shanghai Show

They’ve gone nuts, mobile phone menace, damned copyright
again, Big Uncle blinked, agent no gent, Koleks, Singapore, Charlestown revisited, adventure in wood, plight of the albatross, fishy future  •  crocodiles  •  Malaysia’s response, Taiwan subs built in Europe, Varyag reaches China  •  China Sea Race, President’s Cup Regatta, paraws racing in Iloilo, America’s Cup  •  Southerly 135 review

Galileo, a boat is now an it, not much help, bridge over troubled waters, Ling Ding Marina Club, acronyms, sheep shape, home strait, the perfect tender?  •  wine, love for tea  •  Brunei corvette, private navies  •  Hong Kong to Macau and back, Uin-na-Mara Series, Hobie Cup, records for yacht heroine, Tall Pall Memorial Race  •  Pershing 45  •  President’s Cup Regatta supplement

Cetacean secretions, copyright blues, the hard world of the market, homo delphinus, sailing research lab, one and a half hulls better, Horsburgh’s monument, attacks at sea, MMSIs, jubilee attraction, home is the sailor, bumboat, wooden boat rig  •  avocados  •  Canberra tightens screw on illegals, destroyers for China, new Asian navy, the Irish are coming  •  Hobie Challenge, Four Peaks Race  •  China Sea Race 2002 supplement

Sailing’s virtues, mad reflections, crewed joke, that sinking feeling, junk trade, fishy story, light rekindled, EPIRBs, the roar of the traffic, weather eye  •  German wine  •  Japanese sink intruder, jump jets for Taiwan?   •  Phuket King’s Cup, Singapore Straits Regatta, Admiral’s Cup in Ireland?   •  Italyachts 28.5  •  Gold Coast and London boat shows  •  Hobie Challenge supplement

Tall stories, relative motion, pushme pullyou, Windjet record, dangerous waters, 20,000 words to learn to shout help, speed records, Garden of Eden, Dane and Chinese row the Atlantic, electronic tagging beats boat thieves, smart engine breakthrough, slow but sure  •  scallops  •  keep your distance  •  Round the Island, Optimist Champs, Taal Lake Volcano Regatta  •  Gold Coast
Fair supplement

Losing it, unlighten our darkness, idea takes shape, running the gauntlet, kayak across Atlantic, developments at Hydrographic Office, junk fiction, a ski racer with teeth  •  how tea can keep you on top  •  some anti-piracy successes  •  Sailor of the Year
awards, China Coast Race Week, Magics championships,
Tsing Ma Regatta, Coronation Cup, Port Shelter Regatta  • 
Four Peaks supplement

Self-triggering batteries, guidebook to an unfamiliar coast, wet feet, bottoms clean, pirate alley, invest in a hole in the water, Hebe Haven Yacht Club, testing sun screen lotion, welding underwater, sea bream, virtual hospital  •  snail space  •  Israeli subs for Taiwan, PLA in Europe, China’s sea patrols  •  Hyatt Macau Cup, Opening and Autumn Regattas, Uin-na-Mara Series, The Weekend  •  Southampton Show battles the gloom

Fortress Australia, pirate kings, Galileo, maps don’t lie, sound and fish, et in terra pox . . . a Christmas message, Irrawaddy Flotilla Co, gamblers at sea, Yachting Ventures, Port of Hong Kong, ship console redesign  •  French and New World wine offerings, university team likes it hot  •  new SAR choppers  •  Typhoon Series, IRC council meeting  •  Azimut 74 Solar review

Navigational futures, copy cats, strike a light, mobile phones while racing, two decimal places is enough, GMDSS is a biased lemon, sails gone to pot, bureaucrats want rules, city limits, a future for the fishing industry, beating barnacles, pleasures of Palawan, Ferretti expands, canal restorers achieve the impossible  •  Mother rice, wine  •  missiles for Pratas, sea alert  •  Typhoon Series, forgettable Macau Race  •  Monte Fino 82 review

Rallies and the learning curve, clean sweep, nanny goes nuts, smart charts, beware the red light district, just desserts, globalization, sail training today, exports roped in, relaxed restrictions, the answer to marine fouling, Maya-Maya Yacht Club  •  crab wise  •  Chinese missiles for Pacific islands, Kiwis under Oz defence umbrella  •  Typhoon Series starts, DB Regatta  •  Seawork 2001  •  Gold Coast Yacht & Country Club

Flare up, tough stuff, not Vancouver, maritime motorways, frozen in time, protecting sea life for future generations, wave-energy generator, pilot project, landfall Shang Chuan, Sunsail away  •  coffee drinking  •  Russians return, subsmash  •  San Fernando Race, Paraw regatta, Aussies triumph in Hobies, April Fools Rally

A sense of scale, majesty of the law, eye eye sir, mad pirate disease, roll model, freak waves, Egypt hasn’t changed, Riau Yacht Club, return of the classics  •  Beneteau First 47.7  •  modern chefs  •  Spratlys harder line, JMSA for anti-pirace work, India’s naval strength, rescue hovercraft  •  President’s Cup revived, Ellen’s next challenge  •  San Fernando Race 2001 supplement

Space cadets, human scale, trad nav lives, a race too far, dry ship, money for new rope, on your marks, cruise ships go green,
deep-sea sub, nature’s sailors, GMDSS lets the rellies know  • 
new look for AMC’s grill room  •  Chinese warships for Sri Lanka  •  Phang Nga Krabi Regatta, Four Peaks Race, Singapore Straits Regatta  •  President’s Cup Regatta supplement  •  London and AMC boat shows

Out of the frying pan, crossing the line, hot topic, just like in the movies, mercy ships, dawn of the cruise market, sharpening skills, search for global warming clues, mariners and modern art, building ships of the future  •  galley gash  •  new role for Macau police, Cam Ranh Bay available, carriers for Japan, naval boost for Taiwan  •  King’s Cup  •  AMC boat show supplement

Toy assisted crunches, Selat Tambrau, the Navtex story, Philippine batelle, flogging a dead horse, Kas on the nail, compensation for Chagos islanders, commuter roars back  •  Scots know how to party  •  Royal Thai Navy emerges, subs lead, Myanmar Navy in turmoil, OPVs for Malaysia, Spratlys boredom  •  Raja Muda Regatta, Taal Lake Volcano Race, DB to Gold Coast, Round the Island and Hainan Races, ASEAN Regatta

overSubtle Difference, fit to sail, saintly corruption, deviant harnesses, a moderate sea is a rough sea, dated charts, blowing off steam, Esmeralda  •  salty tales  •  Jolo Island offensive, Indian carrier, nuclear safety  •  China Coast Regatta, Swan Cup, Hyatt Macau Cup, Port Shelter Regatta  •  Four Peaks Race Instructions

Blackbeard rides again, dottiness, colour and power for nav lights, mother’s perimeter, boatie dorks, wheel forgetfulness, bitten to death, mistiming meltmis, surf landings  •  Harcourt’s carrier lives and lives, Taiwan Strait power, fish spooks, subs for Malaysia  •  Autumn Regatta, RB victorious, Opening Regatta  •  Southampton Boat Show  •  Hong Kong Maritime News supplement

Cheaper EPIRB, all fouled up, duff thinking, two sides to every tail, superficial rubbish, self-destruct buttons, launching the lorcha, Feadship in Gold Coast, spectacles cause fire, Pacific instability, sail training ship Tenacious, dory from Burma  •  figs  •  PLA resumes oversea trip, Chinese amphibious forces, Taiwanese amphibious forces, Sri Lanka Navy boost, Vietnam throws down the gauntlet  •  Cork Week, Typhoon Series  •  Dufour makes a name in Hong Kong

Nasty stuff, piracy news, mussel bound, compass eye, comfort factor, interesting Customs, Hirado scrolls, back in harness, ferry nasty, calling a spade an anchor, double celebrations fo Grand Banks, the cruising Dragon  •  seaweed  •  SAR vessels, Singapore’s maritime reach, Japan rising  •  Swan Cup, 47 boats for the Typhoon Series  •  Seawork 2000, Sydney Show

That M word again, down the dotted line, economic might is right, vestigial vigias, good wheezes, dropping in, avoid tax ­– stay at sea, prampan, down to the sea in chipas, Lay-Osborn flotilla, heat sink, new tugs, the Halvorsen tradition  •  caviar  •  Fijian naval leader, PLA spy ships  •  Tracy Edwards, Longcheer visit, making the cut-off to Macau  •  Hong Kong Maritime News

Blow into this, race to the top, spelling prowess, dial H for help, the law’s an ass, unsqueaky green, Hakuna Matata, hot air, soldier sailor lascar, GPS and satcoms, there’s accuracy and accuracy  •  lobsters  •  piracy doubts, carrier boost for Indians, Sri Lankan terror, China blocks joint piracy operations  •  Spring Regatta, China Sea Race inshores  •  new Currents Flash, new Hobie Club Bulletin

Mine’s bigger than yours, enlarge the brain, pining for the sea, in harness, home for old museum pieces, beware bureaucrats, bonjour matelot, a bit of a blow, blown out, highway to The Dome, safer submarines, harnessing green power  •  the Gout Anglais   •  Aussie amphibious squadron, Indians fight piracy, US naval upgrade  •  Iloilo’s paraw regatta, China Sea Race  •  Boat Asia down but not out, Shanghai Show

Ouroboros, reworking the plot, twitching antennae, GMDSS still a lemon, Hong Kong’s unbeaten record, courtesy flags, not so dumb doggerel, 1999 piracy highest in a decade, having a whale of a time, fishes royal, boating for the future, Cheoy Lee’s new yard  •  chillies  •  Shenzhen for diplomatic missions, Portugal’s Asian naval presence  •  Philippine Hobie Challenge, President’s Cup Regatta, Disco Bay to Gold Coast  •  China Sea Race supplement

No hands and no wheel, mobile phones, electronic navigation update, Nelson’s footsteps, completely potty, mute swan colony, the X test, troubled oil on the water, the Bruckmann legacy, tanker turned icebreaker  •  premium wines from Chile  •  patrol vessels for Vietnam  •  Macau Race, Platu 25 champions, BT Global Challenge  •  Earl’s Court 2000, money money money  •  President’s Cup
Regatta supplement

Log rolling, CT38s, zapping the jetskis, shark repellers, shamateurism meets the information age, dive the Titanic, bureaucratic RelationShip, something’s rung a bell, onward cruising sailors, Malaysia and Vietnam push Spratlys claims, Millennium Carnaval, Beneteau Owners’ Rally  •  oranges and lemons  •  new destroyers for China, coast guard for Taiwan  •  13th King’s Cup, Discovery Bay Regatta, America’s Cup Jubilee, hearing re-opened

Hong Kong’s lost chances, satphone wobble, Tabarly remembered, Y2K, pussy galore, turtle tale, recognition for a lifeboat, tips for hotshots, tides of change for ferries, cruising into the next century  •  making up for no-show navies, Malaysian frigates  •  Four Peaks, Hainan race, Round the Island, Straits Regatta, perfect China
Coast Regatta

GPS at a price, boats for Anti Smuggling Task Force, schooner Voyager, EuroVAT and visitors, biodiesel, Port of Hong Kong, Flores incident, aftermath of York, is your VHF obsolete?
•  Singapore veterans for Timor, Aussie sea surveillance boosted, ‘hospital ships’  •  Port Shelter and LBC Regattas, youngest
skipper circumnavigates

Radar reflections, give way to starboard, gone fishing, the great days of sail, helping penguins, radar takes a rain check, reviving old flags  •  East Timor naval operations, Vittoria Veneto, China's warship ban, snakeheads target Canada  •  Mirs Bay Race, Festival of Sail, Disco Bay Regatta, Opening Regatta, Round the World Race  •  Guangzhou Show

La Niña comeback, alive and well, steam radio lives, the Panama connection, saving sea horses, licensing, environmental boost, classics at Yangon Sailing Club, safer car ferries, kiss me sailor, green fuel, Africans discover Australia, keeping ships safer, order for Cheoy Lee  •  beefeaters rejoice  •  JMSDF leads changes  • Typhoon Series, Western Sailing Regatta, Ozzie round the world race  •  China steel

El Niño, turning turtle, plastic plague, mutant clones, microchips on cod, cooking the books, hand in glove, insured, narrow boats, danger, Wang Tak  •  home brew  •  rampant piracy, Filipinos exercise with Ozzies, Taiwan Strait  •  Typhoon Series, King’s Cup  •  order for Asia at Seawork 99

DGPS, junk records, HK Shipping Register fights back, Galileo, navigating, shrinking ice sheets, labour of love, fun on the Huan, sun screen lotions, tsunami, row across the Pacific, neglected inheritance, life for new seafarers  •  Australian wine  •  Brits act against piracy, Estrada’s maritime diplomacy, Korean confrontation, command ships  •  Typhoon Series, Volvo Ocean Race, Spring Regatta, changes to Admiral’s Cup

Good golly Galileo, GPS jammer, aye aye, trouble in bed, Y2K, first China Coast Race, tools of the trade, green flash that’s yellow, separating oil from water, Sunseeker superyacht, world’s biggest cat  •  Madeira wine  •  US warship barred, JMSDF, Kosovo naval angle  •  Dongguan show, Boat Asia, IMDEX

Cruising the Net, sued by crew, DNA coelacanth row, lone watch keeping, pick up the phone, International Certificate of Competence, eastward ho, Hong Kong show collapses, tides watch, offshore safety, climbing curve, oysters with thick shells, Prout history  •  local beverages  •  boats for Australian customs, Taiwan responds, trimaran warship  •  San Fernando Race, President’s Cup  •  Shanghai Show

GMDSS meets lifeboat chasers, steam radio in decline, Southeast Asia Cruising Guide, navigating, lively Glonass, going aloft, low emission outboards  •  oysters, growing tomatoes  •  missile defenses, organized crime in on the act, your country needs you  •  Hong Kong Volvo Race entry, Chinese New Year Macau Race  •  San Fernando and President’s Cup supplements

VAT’s good sense, windup GPS, Indiamen, kid’s stuff, sundogs and other halos, rising costs, submarine technology for old barque  •  divine chocolate  •  atrocities at sea, Kiwis spurn frigate, Australia boosts sea surveillance, showdown or kow-tow, Sea School  •  Opening Regatta, King’s Cup, preview of Four Peaks, BT Global Challenge  •  meet you in the Guiness Bar, China Amusement Expo

Freedom of the seas, La Niña on track, up the creek, ocean studies, not just another boatshow, first in last out, programme for hull inspection data, prime view of plankton  •  tasty, traditional cheese  •  the incursions continue, RN carrier to Central American rescue  •  Straits Regatta, LBC Regatta, Round the Island Race, Varuna Cup, Benetau Owners’ Rendezvous  •  Four Peaks Race supplement

Loran C on the upgrade, one regional show, beastly bureaucracy, scorched earth, coelacanth, meeting the risks of glacial flooding, paper charts to computers, Jadalinkir rejuvenated  •  latest wine news  •  PAP a force to be reckoned with, Chinese spyships  •  Port Shelter Regatta, Zapcat festival, China Race Week  •  Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival, International Festival of the Sea

Oceans should be public trust, miles apart, dragon boating interest in Britain, floating laboratory, COA contributes to Adventure Ship, inflatable sling  •  mushrooms and the art of mycophagy  •  RN chopper ditches off Singapore, Tarawa  •  Macau Race, ABC and RHKYC Opening Regattas  •  Iroquois review, Prima 38 success  •  China Race Week supplement

Loran reprieved, a view from the wire, Jalur Gemilang Challenge, GPS problems, tall ships live, lighting the way ahead, piracy scourge continues, cleaning up oil spills breakthrough  •  food in London  •  fast pursuit craft for Hong Kong police, helicopter carrier for Britain, revolutionized warships  •  Typhoon 8, Hamilton Island Race Week, Five Pubs Race, Kenwood Cup, Optimists championships  •  Four Winns Horizon QX, Cigarette introduces 42 Tiger

Large clipper ship, La Niña on schedule, strike a light, world record for Cable & Wireless, fresh horizons, bubble-free breathing system, high-speed ferries, inflatable garments  •  the not so humble potato, food world tour  •  Estrada tested, Macau localization complete  •  Typhoon Series, Cork Week  •  Fairline’s latest, Tigé times  •  APIME, Seawork 98, Boat & METS Asia ’99

Millennium bug, blue book blues, jam for everyone, abolishing licence fees, closure of Vietnamese refugee saga, Twinscope, Portuguese should get credit GPS in civvies, Decca on its last legs, west Thailand charter  •  don’t rain on my parade  •  China’s warship exports  •  Karl and the Kenwood, Typhoon Series, St John’s regatta, King’s Cup, Osaka Cup entries, Whitbread Round the World Race

Baglietto from 1854 to 1988, Malaysian circumnavigation, Stanley dragon boats, shark attacks on the Cote d’Azure, European Value Added Tax, a home for Britannia, good news on the VHF front, oil in shallow seas, P&O liner, vacuum seabed for diamonds, spare rib  •  ginger, the spice of life  •  new PLA warships, China renews pressure on Spratlys  •  Spring and Sydney Regattas, Macau Race, Cork Week

Monitoring local America’s Cup challenges, Petro Ranger update, Calicoan Yacht Club, one of life’s handicaps, last bite, Year of the Ocean, futuristic symbol for historic port, reed beds purify, discovery trails  •  curry and the British, Argentinean fine wine and beef  •  President’s Cup, Whitbread Round the World Race  •  Beneteau 25 Platu, Prima Yachts visit  •  Boat Asia, Shanghai show

Peter Gilmour interview, piracy alive and well, mal de mer, high speed craft and the Colregs, The Asian Sea, Port of Hong Kong, millennium bug, GPS and satellite communications, the advanced HMS Scott, intelligent submarine  •  garlic  •  Manila and the Bristol connection  •  carriers for Britain and Japan, broader horizons for PLA Navy  •  China Sea Race, Dragon Boat Festival  •  PIBS and Cebu Marine Expo

Kwok Chi-leung, the Guia Light, Andaman Islands cruising, Hong Kong Observatory, night scopes, reaching for the sky, nautical clothing, new tugs, powerful seabed tractor, shocking sharks  •  mealtime Macau, biltong  •  boost for Australian navy  •  Whitbread Round the World Race, ABC Winter Series  •  Riccardo 62, Sealine T51, Moody 46  •  METS / Boat Asia ’98

GMDSS update, fisherman co-operate over reefs, new levels of safety, bonnets and drabblers, just press a button, sharks get shocked  •  Hunter Valley wine region  •  Brunei corvettes  •  Singapore Straits Regatta, World Dragon Boat Festival, Four Peaks Race, Admiral’s Cup, AMC Challenge Cup  •  Azimut 42  •  Earls Court Show, boat Dusseldorf Asia

Lost in space, canal restoration, Oxford Cambridge Boat Race, disappearing reefs, Thames attractions, better water, stow away, shell shock  •  return of the RN, India protests spy plane  •  King’s Cup, Hainan Race, from Fremantle to Sydney, Raja Muda Regatta, China wins Southern Cross and Sydney Hobart  •  Atlantique 40, Monte Fino 67, Hunter’s Passage 450

Sail Training Association, Subic Bay Yacht Club, bye bye navigator, most seas aren’t blue at all, farewell to Britannia, rag power, snare that glare, robot probes deep sea installations  •  a year’s wines  •  Typhoon 7s replaced, warship of the future, German task group  •  Round the Island Race, Etchells Worlds, Brunei Challenge, Leg 2 of the Whitbread, Yacht Haven Varuna Cup

Double Haven’s artificial reefs, AMC boat show, renaissance of Portsmouth Harbour, knowing your boat backwards, look out for La Niña, feeling the pressure, spine chillers  •  Indian bread  •  sinking of Ashigara  •  Vosper fast strike craft, PLA’s naval growth stalled, Taiwan’s navy advances, IMDEX 97  •  China Coast Cup, Royal Dragon Silver Cup, Hobie Asian Classic, Port Shelter Regatta, Round the Island preview

GMDSS again, ferries in transition, Malaysian round-the-worlder, El Niño strikes again, Guam, out of mind, buying your very own boat, tides in the affairs of men  •  break for coffee  •  Autumn Regatta, Hamilton Island Race Week, Royal Dragon Silver Cup, DHL Regatta  •  Princess 360, the Feadship Irina  •  AMC Show supplement  

Reef Check ’97, liveaboard cover, accurate time measure, morningtide, works like clockwork, Spitali shakes off its gremlin  •  beautiful bread, 12 top wines  •  Seasprites for Anzacs, PLA Navy developments  •  China Sea Rally, Typhoon Series 5, 6 and 7, megayacht meet, 470 summer series  •  Wimbledon washout week  •  Neptunus 141, Vava from Feadship, Victoria 38 in review

Chinese name, 30 years on for ABC, GMDSS compliance, our floating home, UK Rowing hall of fame, telemedicine at sea, running the westing down  •  investing in Bordeaux  •  PLA in Hong Kong, British withdrawal  •  Typhoon Series 2, 3 and 4, Macau Two-legged Race, Cape Town to Boston, Zhuhai to Hong Kong Race, Admiral’s Cup 1997  •  Malaysian Boat Show  •  Squadron 50, Draco 280D & 270D, La Masquerade from Feadship

Ji Fung homecoming, Miles Mence, Lin Ma Tzu, alarums and excursions  •  for all the tea in China  •  Ocean Wave visits, exercise and intrusion  •  Fremantle to Lombok Race, Shiseido Cup, Spring Regatta, St John’s Island Regatta, Hong Kong Challenge, Fragrant Harbour Typhoon Series  •  Philippine Boat Show, IMDEX 97  •  the sea spanner, as smart as paint, Copperbot antifoul

Underwater shootout, Chinese name for RHKYC, the launch of Hakuna Matata, east or west whatever’s best  •  fine wines of Portugal •  big guns  •  RN farewell, White Ensign – Red Dragon  •  President’s Cup in Subic Bay, Sydney to Cape Town, China Sea Rally, Sail Osaka ’97  •  Boat Asia in Singapore, Tokyo and Shanghai boat shows 

More bad news for GPS, typhoons at sea, Mr So, rafting up, sting in the tail, aboard Spitali anti-climax is rare  •  all Chinese cuisines found in Hong Kong  •  new Hong Kong maritime boundaries, local PLA contingent, PLA Navy extends its reach  •  San Fernando Race, Sail Osaka ’97, Whitbread round the world, Topcat Worlds, yacht missing  •  Philippines boat show

Asian piracy update, Hong Kong Marina, a dream coming true, Precious Dragon on its way, insurance coverage, crocodile fears, Aberdeen Marina Club, Tall Ship Spectacular, Spitali is not to be trifled with, osmosis cure  •  the art of the sommelier  •  new SWATH vessels  •  BT Global Challenge, Vendee Globe record, Brunei Challenge, Macau Two-Legged Race  •  Boston Whaler, 49er for the Olympics, Skipjack 26

Sailing junk up the Thames, Sea Sentinel, Polly Woodside museum, forgotten monuments, marine leisure makes a splash, tall sails talk, emergency steering worries, Europe’s acronyms, Straight delivery  •  hard tack and salt beef  •  PLA naval developments, Ocean Wave 97, join the MVS, Battle of Malacca Strait, invisible warship  •  Richard Rowe writes, Straits Regatta, fast Four Peaks  •  Sealine 430

Sharks as swindlers or killers, emergency tillers  •  Wilson Line cruising and dining  •  Filipinos in the Spratlys, SAR exercise, stealthy visitor, nuclear safety exercise, Southeast Asian naval round-up  •  Nippon Cup, King’s Cup, Morning Glory wins Sydney Hobart, Optimist championships  •  Benship 18 and 46 Azimut reviews

Henry the Navigator, sense of direction, marine police HQ, scurvy, superfish  •  Christmas cheer  •  landing ships for RN  •  Round the (Beaufort) Island, Hobie Asian Classic, Etchells Asia-Pacifics, Macau Grand Prix Race, Raja Muda Regatta  •  Mandarin 52  •  Gold Coast Boat & Watersports Fair

Tall Ships Spectacular, heavy weather, Fisherman’s Friend, Diaoyu Islands, sense of direction, passing hours, custom building Italian style, soloist returns  •  Crus Bourgeois of the Medoc  •  1997 Task Group  •  Port Shelter Regatta, Corum Cup

Nice idea, Phatra Yacht Club, green coastal defences, new marine parks, playing hockey  •  Japanese dishes  •  after the Battle of Trafalgar  •  submarine incursion, Exeter in China  •  Autumn Regatta, DHL Regatta  •  Gold Coast Boat & Watersports Fair visitor’s guide

Navigating through alphabet soup, solar voyage, one hand for the ship  •  cigars  •  escape from Singapore  •  Hong Kong Squadron for the Philippines, piracy co-ordination centre  •  Typhoon 4 & 5, Lee Lai Shan, Japan’s 470 silver  •  Fairline Phantom 40, Novatec 45  •  Workboat ’96

Ile Saint Marie safe haven  •  New tugs and patrol boats for Mardep, travelling steerage, pint-sized PFDs for children, third harbour crossing and the vessels involved  •  making a meal of Malaysia  •  St John’s Island Regatta, dragon boats at Tuen Mun and AMC  •  Monte Fino 55 and MacGregor 26 reviews  •  100 exhibitors at Malaysia show

Sailing to Madagascar and its satellite islands  •  GMDSS could be the wrong system, farewell to a nationalist enclave, methane gas under the seabed, the Magic 25 debuts in Hong Kong, buoyancy aids  •  brandies of Cognac  •  PLA garrison  •  Spring Regatta attracts 120 entries, Typhoon Series  •  Birchwood TS440 review  •  Dubai show

Mauritius Island with its many cultures  •  the problems associated with GMDSS, chasing pirates in the Asian Sea  •  Port Arthur retaken by the Japanese  •  new warships for Asia  •  a personal account of the Vietnam Race  •  Tokyo Show attracts 300,000 visitors, profiles and information about the show in Shanghai, Boat Asia ’96

Reunion Island rarely visited by cruisers  •  Sunset Bay Marina on Sentosa, the finless porpoise under threat, the greatest advance in maritime safety since the Plimsoll line, first DGPS station, Caveat emptor . . . and beware of the liens, Cheong Lee Sailmakers  •  wines of South America  •  naval notes  •  the inaugural Vietnam Race, Macau Two-legged Race   •  Boat Asia ’96

Awning up to it, Fire Boat 2, Traffic Control Station at Gemini Point, new site for Republic of Singapore Yacht Club, Lakeside Villa Marina, nautical notes, shanty or chantey, Classic boat Jackson for sale  •  China flexes maritime muscles  •  Cutty Sark ­­- the real McCoy  •  Straits Regatta, Four Peaks Race  •  Lewmar racing blocks, Atlantic windlasses

Front berth for Phuket, pan pan medico, GMDSS and urgency calls, nice one George, future of search and rescue, advanced cable-laying flagship, charts for UK Hydrographic Office, Lewmar turns 5 • Sri Lankan curries • Joshua Slocum • 1997 taskforce, patrol vessels for Brunei • 8th Asian Sailing Championships • Princess 440

Ownership of the seas (III), Baltic 87 Custom, a stitch in time, Asian Shipowners’ Forum, GPS – here today, here forever?  •  Kanonkop  •  PLA manoeuvres, Hong Kong notes  •  Round the Island, Sonata Interport, Grand Prix Race, 1995 King’s Cup, Etchells Asia Pacific, 420 Worlds

Wallace’s Line, man the lifeboats, action on spars, sails & one-designs, breathing easy, new government dockyard, who owns the seas (II)?  •  smoked salmon – value added, tasty Thai  •  Philippine Navy modernizes  •  China Coast Cup, Shanwei pursuit race, Hobie Asian Classic, Flying Fifteen Worlds, Port Shelter Regatta, Flying Fifteen Nationals, KLM Regatta ’95

Red Sea Pilot, Seanergy, Robertson and Caine, sailing into Subic, keeping dry in heavy weather, Natsteel Marine, who owns the seas (I)? • the Keying • goodbye to all that (II), the murder or Lance Sergeant Linfield, sub for Singapore • DHL Regatta, Women’s Keelboat Champs, Autumn Regatta • Hunter 336, Fastlane 40 • Workboat ’95

El Niño strikes again, a new world of satnav, ICOMIA meeting, Hydrographic Office, on your toes, built by Bondway  •  HMS Tamar  •  importance of the Royal Navy  •  Pesta Sukan Regatta, Jaguar Regatta, Mirs Bay Race  •  Skibsplast 700 D  •  Gold Coast show  •  KLM Regatta ’95

Marina del Nido, maritime history of Haiphong, building a boat  •  part 1 of Syrah, aka Shiraz  •  drummer to detachment sergeant major, part 2  •  Canadian stealth frigate  •  South Side Regatta, Shiseido Cup ’96, Tioman Island race, Yamaha Osaka Cup, The BOC Challenge  •  Mainship 40 Sedan Bridge

Singapore waterfront development conference  •  Hebe Haven plans revamp, fighting smugglers at night, seaploughs dig golden furrows, practicalities of building a boat  •  tasty Chinese noodles recipes  •  drummer to detachment sergeant major  •  Ramos exposes China’s territorial ambitions  •  Pattaya Multihull Nationals, Spring Regatta, the BOC Challenge  •  Powercat 268 Sports review  •  Malaysia Show pulls 65 exhibitors

The magic of Bali, cruising in East Malaysia  •  secret establishment closes, incursion by Kung Bin vessel, Amongst the Sampans review, Sebana Resort in Malaysia, new ferry for Chek Lap Kok, Outward Bound’s new boats, constructing a tender from a kit  •  instant and street noodles  •  San Fernando Race, the BOC Challenge, Philippine Easter Regatta  •  Boat Asia ’95

Isolated Rodrigues Island • new Phuket Boat Lagoon marina, Lee Lai Shan, treating minor injuries • party time, sweet delights • the voyages of Cheng Ho • Royal Thai Navy modernises • Leg 3 of the BOC Challenge, SYA Nacra Championships • Princes 58 and Prout Escale 39 boat reviews • Tokyo International Boat Show, show at Marina Cove, Boat Asia ’95 in Singapore, exhibits aplenty in London

Terence Lam update, anchors and chains when cruising  •  first aid at sea, fly the flag, Courtaulds Coatings looking to Asia, part four of the dai fei series, Jackson for civvy street  •  the minesweeper USS Salute, twilight of the gods, replica of the 15th century Matthew  •  Four Peaks Race, Nanking Plate Regatta, Hong Kong Challenge along the clipper route, Leg 2 of the BOC Challenge, Wellcraft 2700 Martinique, Fairline’s Squadron 47

Falmouth for orders, spice exports from the Moluccas • lighter side of the dai feis, eclipse or revival of Star Ferry, Port of Kobe, 24-hour GPS security, origins of the words junk and dhow, bamboo in Chinese craft • rum, a sailor’s drink • British withdrawal • Macau and back, Leg 3 of BOC Challenge • Island Gypsy 49 Corporate • measuring the oceans

English Customs, South of Sulawesi  •  those who deal with dai feis, Sailability Singapore needs funding, the Chinese junk, disasters at sea, future of marine police, S$50 million Ponggol marina development, fine detail  •  eggs don’t just mean breakfast  •  Phuket King’s Cup, Round the Island Race, Hong Kong to Vietnam, Sydney-Hobart, Leg 2 of the BOC Challenge  •  Boston Whaler Montauk 17, Novatec 133 Sundeck

Trouble with Vilamoura VAT man  •  European regulations for pleasure craft, what’s best below the waterline, Yangon Sailing Club revisited, ventures on the Mainland, DB Marina gets a lift, background to smuggling, Cape d’Aguilar & Beaufort Channel, harbour safety  •  wines of Portugal  •  subs for PLA  •  fifth week of BOC Challenge  •  Maxum 2700 SCR review

Fiddler's Green II rounds Cape Trafalgar, Siau Island in the Moluccas  •  Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo, the aims of keel design, smaller version of HMS Plover, NEYK project  •  wines of Portugal  •  HMAS Darwin visits Hong Kong, end of 138 years of Royal Naval presence   •   perfect conditions for Corum Cup, Blue Ice Beer Regatta out of Tai Tam Bay, BOC Challenge  •  800 boats on display at Southampton

Discovering the levanter • GMDSS and you, East Coast Sailing Centre, sailing the vast Indonesian archipelago, keels make a difference, RYA courses for the visually impaired, P&O names Shenzhen Bay • Spratly Islands update • 61 boats for Port Shelter Regatta, strong fleet for Corum Cup, Autumn Regatta, Round the (Beaufort) Island Race, report from Robin Davie’s Cornwall • Blue Ice Beer Regatta 1994 supplement

Tieing up at Queensway Quay Marina, a visit to the Anambas island group • survival packs and grab bags, B-14 fleet looking for sponsors, Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club, navigation in fog • the battles for Leyte • modernization programme for RAN • Corum Cup, Foster’s Typhoon Series 1994, 130 boats for 35th Toba Pearl, BOC single-handed challenges • Fairline’s Squadron 56 • Copperbot hitech antifouling

A dash down the Costa Brava  •  no one really knows what sunfish eat, origins of the chart, virtue rewarded, modern maritime education in Ulster, church and school on Yim Tin Tsai, preparing for sea, grab bags  •  baking on board  •  Hong Kong bases for PLA, jump jets for Thais  •  Corum Japan Cup, pictures and results of Typhoon Series, Whitbread Round the World Race  •  Seahawk 60 review

Virtual voyaging  •  more on the Global Positioning System, holes in the hull, a Tahiti ketch, the Kitchen rudder, how to protect your boat, cooking equipment for the galley  •  Amethyst at bay   •  RHKYC centenary celebrations, AMC’s interdock dragon boat racing, Hobie nationals, Chris Dickson suggests improvement for Whitbread, Typhoon Series 1994  •  Eastbay 38 Express

Studying the European canal network, Koh Chang cruise   •  guardian of the sea, Rora V Feadship, greater GPS accuracy, wire and its substitutes  •  cooking a caught fish  •  castal batteries of Hong Kong, capture of Manila, Douglas MacArthur’s return to the Philippines  •  Philippine Easter Regatta, Pan Pacific Yacht Race  •  Princess 470 review

In the pilothouse • design symposium in New Zealand, modern rope fibres, struck by lightning, building boats in Burma • Wyndham Street Thai, equipment for the galley • the controversial Douglas MacArthur • Swedish warship at Prince of Wales Barracks • China Sea Race, Shiseido Cup ’94, Philippine Easter Regatta 1994, Tokio leaves Auckland for Cape Horn, Iloilo’s paraw regatta • second Gold Coast Fair, Boat Asia ’94

French leave  •  dream becomes reality, Suluan Island not touched, first aid at sea, remembering natural fibre cordage, monitoring coastal pollution  •  the versatile egg  •  Battle of the Yalu River  •  giant vessels for RFA, Malaysian arms deal  •  tall ships to Osaka preview, shortest leg of the Whitbread  •  Princess 360 sea trial  •  33rd Tokyo Boat Show  •  Gold Coast watersports fair

A cruising year  •  China Fleet in Cornwall, ASTF hampered, update on Raffles, friendly Camiguin Island, plastic fantastics, to Okinawa in Kaisei, concern about Daya Bay  •  Lake Tanganyika 1814-16  •  new RN carrier  •  records tumble in Four Peaks  •  Sun Odysset 47 and Squadron 62 reviews  •  London Boat Show  •  UK vessel traffic management

Water to do, Henri Cordovero’s ocean wanderings  •  Limasawa Island, a gnawing problem, bog standard green machine, things that go bump, Edwardian riverboat takes shape, blister treatment, Pan’s to Good Earth  •  Café Afrikan  •  Hong Kong base for PLA Navy, Russian subs for China  •  youth racing in dinghies, 7th King’s Cup, Ashinoko Green Cup, icebergs and man overboard in the Southern Ocean  •  Azimut 65 Pininfarina

Hyère today, gone tomorrow, a cruising Frenchman  •  how to swing your compass, climatic extremism, salvaging a Spanish galleon, Half-Safe Around the World, your own model boat, So Fong’s difficulties leaving Vietnam  •  galley hints, quick dishes for the stove-top  •  Australian task group  •  200 boats round the island, Corum Cup, King’s Cup  •  Silverton 312 Sedan review

Corse cruising  •  hurricanes in the Med, the moorings man, the 70-foot So Fong, fitting a steering compass, Tai Koo tug, Korean man overboard  •  the coconut  •  landing craft leave the colony  •  Super Dry Regatta  •  Asia Open Powerboat Race, China Coast Cup, Japan Jet Grand Prix, Chris Dickson shares his experiences  •  Genoa boat show

Scylia and Charybdis  •  NRP Sagres, Saigon Queen, the pink dolphin, secret hongs, Spratlys flashpoint, cargo boats & dumb lighters, deep sea rescue work, connection between anchor and boat, look out of your window  •  tropical food  •  Trevessa Trophy  •  Japan Sea Race, 7th Yujiro Cup, Lantau regatta  •  Southampton Boat Show

Homer sweet Homer, choosing a cruising route  •  Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the fisherman of Bauang, relevance of the Marine Society, weather forecasting and the Mark 1 eyeball, dream ship contest, keeping your boat attached to the seabed  •  Pearl River incident  •  wooden-hulled Ton class bows out  •  dragon world championships, preparations for the Whitbread, Typhoon Series 1993  •  Kwai Lee 44 ferry, Nimbus 33 Avanta  •  San Miguel Super Dry Regatta 1993 supplement

Wine and roses  •  VAT and yachts, piracy on the move, boat boys compete, Ping Chau Island, GPS danger, protect your boat, China Sea Tournament, super dredgers  •  pilot sampans, Dresden dilemma  •  Auckland Fukuoka Yamaha Cup, TAG Heuer holed, Typhoon Series, Japan Jet Grand Prix ’98   •  Fairline’s 37 Corsica  •  Boat Asia ’93   •  oil’s well

The pilots of Suez, yachting services in Galle  •  artist Stephen Thomas, the Royal Australian Navy, Tap Mun post, the Dr Catherine Lam, Mainship Luhrs Silverton  •  one pot stove top  •  Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands  •  new carriers for Britain’s Royal Navy, Tamar moves to Stonecutters  •  Sometime World Cup ’93, Big Boat & taka-Q, second Yamaha, Champion of Champions, Hobie 16 Nationals  •  Zephyr wingsail multi  •  InteliChart

Red Sea Lunatics Society  •  plans for Sebana Cove, cruising the Pacific in a bamboo raft, Mercruisers on display, Chinese forces out of control, success built on quantity  •  going bananas  •  the cruisers Emden and Königsberg  •  another pack of navy cuts  •  IOR or ILC, San Fernando jottings  •  Riva Grandyacht review  •  small boat satcoms, new bow thruster, radar system with portable displays, clean with dry ice

Arabian nights, Russian visitors  •  Maria and Pepe’s island, China Voyage update, logs and log keeping, difference between registered and licensed, the QE2, GPS checking, a cruising lambo from Indonesia  •  simple recipes  •  Adm Graf von Spee’s Far East Squadron  •  cuts in the US Navy, RSS Intrepid  •  San Fernando Race, powerboats in Kitaura, Shiseido Cup, to Australia and back

Serendipity is Sri Lanka, Terence Lam goes it alone  •  Royal Garden Riverside, lounging in a lorcha, wrecks in Vietnam, International Maritime Bureau, Phuket’s services and facilities, patrol boats or pirates?  •  secret operations in Singapore  •  busy British and American navies  •  christening for TAG Heuer  •  Johnson 56 review, the Parallax 11 from Queensland  •  Tokyo Show, Yacht Aid Japan raises ¥300,000, Hong Kong Boat Show 1993

Staying the pace  •  Yacht Aid Japan, Port Bolinao, Royal Selangor Yacht Club, loss of Highlight, marine sports ships, ocean currents analysed, Thai longtails, La Gallega, STS Kaisei  •  the Namoa incident  •  Macau Two Legged Race, 4 Peaks Race  •  Hurricane 5.9  •  Tokyo Boat Show supplement, Japan Marine Directory  •  what’s in a name?

Fiddler’s Green II in the King’s Cup  •  Macau Maritime Museum, Miyajima Island, more on armchair navigation, murders and guards, revolution on the bridge, Daigo-Fukuyuma in a museum, preparing for the China Sea  •  Chui Ah Po’s cave  •  Republic of Singapore Navy  •  youth sailing, CHS changes for 1993, Fragrant Harbour 4 Peaks Race ’93 supplement, Yamaha update  •  Draco’s 3400 Opal  •  OMC pulls the crowds, forthcoming shows

Sailing the east coast of peninsular Malaysia  •  Raffles Marina, Tim Severin’s China Voyage, the Riverboat Group, naming Repulse Bay containership, armchair navigation, Saipan’s bloody past  •  a pirate’s lair in Stanley  •  Navy Days  •  King’s Cup, Ericson /Autohelm Regatta, Etchells Championships, Grand Prix Regatta, Nippon Cup and BMW Cups  •  Fairline 51 review  •  fuel saver for naval ships

Parking problems, yacht passport needed  •  early diving expedition, search and rescue, dropping the hook, Tikopia unspoilt, ethnic craft of the Kuching area, seizure of vessels, survivors of a Japanese craft, berthing and HIN  •  JMSDF fleet review, Asia’s naval arms race, the naval facilities on Stonecutters  •  Yamaha dismasted at 18 knots, Hobie Club Annual Regatta  •  Azimut 90 Europa  •  selections from the Southampton show

Tiding over, cruising permits suspended  •  Omigawa water ski championships, Nongsa Point Marina, maritime mayhem, selecting an anchorage, an environmental disaster, Discovery Bay ferry fleet, anchoring in a typhoon, replicas of Japan’s first steamships, mysterious Floreana, Phuket Yacht Club  •  HMS Norfolk stealth frigate, Exercise Starfish  •  Merit Cup, DHL Regatta ’92, Timberland Regatta  •  Destriero’s Atlantic speed record  •  new ship stabilizing system, shaft bearing material

Antifouling Fiddler’s Green II, cruising west of Hong Kong, watchkeeping  •  Galapagos Islands, Alberto Torroba's Pacific crossing in a 15-foot dugout, tropical cyclones, what Singapore has to offer, problems for yachts, Shenandoah of Sark, crossing a busy shipping lane  •  broken fridge and cooker  •  jump-jets at sea  •  IMS and the Commodore’s Cup, Atami Ocean Cup, Typhoon Series, Yamaha does well  •  Island Gypsy Classic 40  •  Halvorsen Marine  •  ‘black box’ for shipping

Strait talking  •  Huis Ten Bosch, Jelik changes, RSYC update, Nan Madol, kaito services, Yamato-1, radio detecting and ranging  •  Cutty Sark  •  changes for the RN, Asia’s arms race  •  Typhoon Series Races 3, 4 and 5, STA Summer Regatta  •  DHL Regatta ’92 and Lamma Water Ski Racing supplements  •  soundproofing the engine room, weather information software

The Shallow Sea, keeping your chart inventory up to date  •  Blue Clipper to Shanghai, San Francisco to Tokyo, Yokohama Dontaku Festival, Kinabalu Yacht Club, Grand Banks & American Marine, Sibuyan Island in the Philippines, ships without crews, Setonaikai cruising  •  piracy update  •  Typhoon Series 2, Japan Bay Cup, Kenwood Cup  •  Ocean Alexander 42 Sedan  •  Gentry Eagle converted for luxury  •   engine room ventilation  •  casino ships fit for sea?

Party Galora, making your own charts  •  Kota Kinabalu, sail training in Ireland, schooner Blue Clipper, Banton Island in the Sibuyan Sea, changes for CHS-rated yachts  •  Xiabu Xiabu 5’s food list  •  Combat de Coloane, the Battle of Tsushima  •  Asian naval arms race  •  Japan Cup  •  Beneteau Antarès 8.05  •  luxury tax rally  •  Sometime World Cup, Naish and Dunkerbeck interviews

From Palau to the Philippines  •  accommodation and services in Puerto Galera, Yokohama Maritime Museum, bases and boats, Port Bonbonon, Whitbread 60 yacht, how to expand your chart inventory  •  the Golden Age of piracy  •  China Sea Race, Puerto Galera Cruiser Rally, Tai Po Boat Club racing  •  456 Classico review  •  Ezitsu Floating Boat Show, OMC Show  •  Magnavox telephone, SailTrack for the America’s Cup  •  Lance Ross paints historic cruising yacht

Second Fiddle lost and found  •  Japan-Guam tragedy, get all the charts and pilots you can, piracy now, Survival Card, Phuket Yacht Club Hotel & Resort, Ophira III, Port Taguilon on Mindanao  •  Carrier Jean d’Arc  •  Shiseido Cup, Sometime World Cup, Japan Cup  •  reviews of Fairline’s 38 Phantom, the Seaswirl 250 SWL and Halvorsen’s Island Gypsy 57  •  AMC Boat Show  •  marine refrigeration

The eye of the storm  •  HMS Tamar and Stonecutters, Rosenkavalier, speedy multihull, watches for cruising, two engines for Phoenix Twin  •  Ginza Guide  •  Mazda Four Peaks Race, Puerto Galera Cruiser Rally, Japan-Guam Yacht Race, motorboat racing in Heiwajima, Concord Regatta  •  Beneteau First 265  •  major Japanese boat shows  •  marine refrigeration, FRP guide  •  Longshot challenges 44.66 knots

Northwards to Fiji  •  solar powered Solis, Save the Sea, The Princess Martina, naval expansion in Asia, USS Constitution, Mardep’s new examination scheme  •  Match Cup, regatta in Repulse Bay, Raja Muda round up, eXtreme conditions, 50-foot World Cup, Nippon Cup, Opium Pipe Cup, Round the Island Race  •  Azimut 37, Halvorsen’s latest  •  London Boat Show  •  removing the engine, more from Magellan  •  Zambezi rafting, Olympics and America’s Cup

Halvorsen Marine and five generations, interior of David Lieu’s boat  •  kayaking in Fiji  •  marina news down south, Tadao Kato and Jean-René Bannwart, the yachties must be crazy, Kiwi handicapping, Macau’s Polícia Marítima e Fiscal, COA and ratings  •  Japan Cup Offshore Series, an unusual regatta, Port Shelter and Lantau Boat Club Regattas  •  Fairline 41 review  •   water jets, captain’s check list, night vision  •  grand prix marina, logos on spinnakers

Hands on, Boat & Aquasports  •  long time no sea  •  marine conservation society, Kaisei departs Weymouth for Misaki, water skiing champs, Malacca today, the Feadship Fiffanella  •  restaurants in Phuket  •  yachting on Sagami Bay, ¥20 million for Merit Cup, Japan leads the world, DHL Regatta, the future of the Champagne Mumm World Cup, IMS now, Olympic Series, Optimists in Qingdao  •  Yamaha’s Waverunner III  •  paint and metal boats, marine fabrics

The few spoil it for the many  •  Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force  •  three Thai recipes  •  Five Pubs Race, 24th Atami Ocean Cup, 32nd Toba Pearl Race, Mirs Bay Race, Optimist championships, appeal for help, Andy Service returns  •  Volvo’s 42 series, maintaining pedestal steering, cabin heaters, painting glassfibre boats, electronic sensor battery charging  •  smuggling checked  •  feel the breeze

Floating funds  •  pollution in Hong Kong’s waters  •  Japan’s plan to double marina berths, Seabornia’s dry stack, Pendennis Shipyard, filling in the harbour, Britain’s maritime past, Maritime Safety Agency of Japan, Xiamen Celestial Yacht survives, naming of ships  •  6th Asian Regatta, Typhoon 3 & 4  •   painting a wooden boat, screening and suppression, electrolysis detection unit, venting a diesel fuel system, oil spill solutions, tanks for the memory  •  patrol boats and fish, China Fleet Club in Cornwall, dwindling catches

Cruising in crampons  •  diving in Puerto Galera  •  measuring currents, Vietnamese Boat People, Tokyo Port Festival  •  racing on Sagami Bay, match racing in Junk Bay, Police Worlds, crossroads for Laurence Mead  •  Rulebook computer programme, poisonous antifoul paint, binoculars, Cobra rescue boat  •  six new police launches, Hong Kong Powerboat Association, wave action pumps, deregistering, Hobies in Taiwan

Fairline’s 31 Corniche  •  learning the hard way on Fiddler’s Green II  •  Pryde and Steadfast, flying boats and first air piracy, mysteries of PYS, the Doulos, Wang Tak shipyard  •  importance of the galley  •  yachting in Japan takes off, Yamaha Osaka Cup 1991, Lee Dockstader wins the Hobies  •  painting preparation, osmosis detection, how to prevent flooding  •  entry and clearance exemption

AMC and Singapore Shows, Malaysia’s first at Royal Selangor Yacht Club  •  Chris Craft’s Catalina 427  •  with a tale of the Wagg, Graham & Linda of Zarefa, David Bonner and Windborn  •  diving in Hong Kong  •  detained vessels eyesore, HKYA licence proposal, Sunderlands and Sandringhams, Sanyo’s Amorton Flower  •  tuna tips  •  Dunhill Lema Islands and San Fernando Races, Enterprise Worlds, Nippon Challenge  •  new international SSB frequencies, self steering  •  building a Gloucester Light Dory in your garage

Tokyo and Osaka Boat Shows  •  crossing the Tasman  •  Neil Pryde’s superloft, Batam developments, Tai Po Boat Club, American flying boats in the Pacific, Hong Kong Register  •  two new Thai restaurants, Sagano  •  X-99 Championship, naughty boys, racing off Lamma, SI for San Fernando series, preview of boats  •  straight advice, understanding heads  •  hefty penalties, osmosis, giant cat for Hong Kong, are you a bookworm?

Preparing for the Tasman Sea  •  record 37.18 knots, Alastair Hall retires from the Mariners’ Club, the colony’s flags, pilots and colliers, maritime activity in the Gulf, an Andaman Adventure, refit of Adix, Royal Bombay Yacht Club  •  E22 world champs, Steve Ellis surfs to Hobart, Macau Two Legged Series, Japn-Guam race, 4 Peaks Race 1991, Colliers Jardine Regatta ’91, a look at IMS and CHS, Osaka Cup 1991  •  computers and pollution, safer at sea, self steering, split ship  •  Goiot in town

Tokyo and London Boat Shows  •  X-412 and Baltic 58 boat reviews  •  under the Coathanger, return to paradise, Phi Phi Island fantasy  •  Dave Parker sketches Hong Kong, spotlight on leisure, mega-yachts in Japan need help, you have survived, China’s navy, USS Independence, Hongkong Salvage & Towage  •  HMS Scout visits Shanghai, Sham Shui Po POW game  •  San Fernando Race, Impala derby  •  yacht alarms, Water Witches control pollution, clearsight compass, point for alternative fuel  •  FH gathering

Yarding 27 boat test  •  weather or not  •  Hong Kong Register, Rangoon Sailing Club, Ocean Park Aquarium, sharks galore, how to survive, high speed multihulls  •  third in the China Station chronicles  •  Laser and Flying Fifteen championships, Andaman Sea Cup, more exciting King’s Cup, Nippon Cup, Macau Grand Prix Regatta, IMS in practice, Hong Kong’s 100 shipyard  •  cooking stoves, shallower draught but more cargo, all about fuel  •  Round the Island record broken, Tamar and the PLA

Show at AMC  •  from Townsville to Gladstone, Brian and Alda reach Phuket  •  seamen and the English language, self preservation, climate and the oceans  •  Walter Wight and HMS Scout, Lillion II  •  Walker Wingsail System  •  258 boats sail around Hong Kong, Port Shelter Regatta, rating systems, Enterprise Nationals, Nippon Cup, Sonatas off Lamma, Etchells Asia-Pacs  •  fouled anchors, new positioning system, bottom holding, lubricating oil, confusing measurements, 406 EPIRB  •  the grey boats, STA’s new premises

Southampton Show  •  Down under, Singapore and beyond, the idyllic islands around Palawan  •  Mexican Navy visit, Fortuna in fine condition, yachting gear, Vital Spark puffs around Hebe Haven  •  links to the Hispanic empire, memories of PL21, ship’s painter on the China Station, QEII sails into Liverpool  •  RHKYC dinghy regatta, response to IMS, ABC Opening Regatta, radar and pollution, wind/water generators, NAV 1000 Plus, Carbonflo, fresh water treatment, reliable Perkins  •  harbour picture, new port developments

Southern Cross 52 boat test  •  Tropicbird sails on to Sabah, from the Solomons to Cairns  •  the beginnings of Hobie Cat, the Benin Ivory, fish, seven vessels of Watertours  •  Hong Kong vs Oxford, Five Pubs Race, International Offshore Rule, Mirs Bay Race  •  osmosis in GRP yachts, maritime distress and safety system takes shape, bilge pump and water level alarms  •  Takeshi, Nocholini’s  

Registry of shipping, blow tanks, Hong Kong Hobie Club, Fiddler’s in distress, passage to Phuket, new police base at Sai Wan Ho  •  appeals and overlaps, 1990 Tall Ships Race, easier and cheaper CHS, Typhoon Series 6, Cork Week, 1991 World Yachting Grand Prix  •  HMS Battleaxe •  Grissini •  rotary converters, Clearwater Bay’s new boatyard •  Nordhavn 46 and 1770 Capri Bowrider reviews

Singapore’s powerboat licence, port statistics, heading for Papua New Guinea, flexibility and leeway of IMS, Outboard Marine, Shun Tak Shipping Far East Hydrofoil, Middle Kingdom  •  diesel bug, cathodic protection, portable satcom, tracking in 3D  •  X-99 Worlds, Typhoon Series 3, DBMC regatta  •  Canadian squadron  •  steamship Norna prologue  •  Stanley’s Oriental

Harbour racing, Dunhill Spring Regatta, Singapore to Rawa Race   •  The China Navigation Co, staying longer at Pangalusian Island, distress signals, Royal Navy Reserve in Hong Kong, Cariad, Zarwisza Czarny, third in the Norna series, refugee vessel to sailing junk  •  Amigo restaurant  •    something for your battery, Barnacle Buster, Magellan satnav review

The harbour picture, typhoons 1990, Portugal’s geographic position, Thai rice barges, Fiddler’s Green II heads south, Wan Fu, Trump Princess at Ocean Terminal, Norna runs aground, Lei Yue Mun, Historic Marine from Mauritius  •  Dartmouth Training Squadron,   •  Martela keel loss, China Sea Race, Iloilo Paraw Regatta, HKMYA  •  Numero Uno  •  wind generators

Local Craft Review, up the Yangtze, Hongkong & Yaumati Ferry Co, Fiddler’s Green II reaches Manila, Channel Handicap Rating System, the Flying Fifteen, Pallada sail training ship, last ‘river paddler’, floating refuse collection, Norna wrecked in North Pacific, new P&O containerships  •  Flying Fifteen Worlds  •  user-friendly GPS satnav, fuel filters and strainers  •  X-372 Prestige  •  Café Society

Tai Lam Chung, Marblehead model yacht, environmentally friendly antifoul, water supply, historic ships, Fiddler’s Green II approaches departure, looking astern to 1946, feeling the way at DB Marina, immigration clearance, loss of the Seawise University, Kwai Chung container terminals  •  Raid Mer De Chine, Etchells championships near Lamma, Macau Two Legged Race, Nanking Plate Regatta, Tatler/Cartier Yacht Race in Singapore  •  air conditioning  •  Peak Cafe

Emergency and MRCC, Marine Police Training School, Tai Tam Boat Club, new marinas for Singapore, preparations for cruising, looking astern to 1946, bigger berths for AMC, decline of Hong Kong’s shipping industry, harbour exhibition, Clear Water Bay Marina moving ahead  •  Southern Cross Series, Hong Kong Match Cup, RHKYC class racing  •  visit to USS New Jersey  •  parking for Concordia  •  Kwai Lee 55, the Folkboat, Aviva 69  •  London Boat Show, Classic Boat Festival  •  Bit Point

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons, interesting visitors, marine algae for antifoul, Local Craft Review, Hong Kong’s post-war chaos, Chitagong samban, fish farming, Philippe Monet, The Star Ferry, safety at sea, Clear Water Bay’s travelift, mutiny on the Bounty, China Ferry Terminal  •  engines and transmissions  •  OMC boat show  •  Taswell 43  •  Marshallian k  •  M at the Fringe  •  HMS Nottingham  •  Bjorn Lohse wins Laser regatta

OMC’s in-door show  •  Admiralty charts, Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, government’s new construction section, HMS Swiftsure liberates Hong Kong, Royal Corps of Transport, Tathong Point, Port and Airport Development Strategy, wings beat sails, Napier Dunn, Burma has teak and builders  •  Neil Pryde Multihull Regatta, Round the Island Race, 50-foot World Cup Japan  •  Beneteau 32s5 in the pool  •  Grand Cafe  •  Japan’s capital spending

Southampton Show comes of age, Hong Kong Boat Show  •  yachting post war, Vessel Traffic Management, Royal Observatory, land of the sailing junk, Small Boat Unit, Astrid for the young, Hong Kong Model Yachting Association  •  Dragon Worlds, Beneteau Owners’ Rally, China Coast Cruise  •  Hylas 44  •  Taiwan the next Japan  •  Al’s Diner

Hong Kong wins X-99s, new racing rules, Four Pubs Race  •  steering gear  •  fish farms expand and pollute, Kellett Queen, beaches and bathing, Dickie Bell, be properly dressed, Cocachin’s first sail, Macau Maritime Museum, loss of the Osprey, Bali  •  Someplace Else  •  turning back the clock, Philippine fiesta

Mariculture and you, charts and depths, traffic separation schemes and fairways, model junk fishing boats, Marco Polo and herbal medicines, Ralph & Cherryl Baker, Portuguese cruiser Adamastor  •  Club Camargue, Shanghai surprise  •  Typhoon 4 in the summer  •  under the foc’sle head  •  renaissance of regional economies

Clearwater Bay marina progress, water sports safety day, forgotten corner of the Post Office, Jockey Club charities, new Star Ferry, containerport, Waglan becomes automated, wooden junks to steel trawlers, Silk Sea Road, Canton Maritime Safety Bureau  •  training vessel Brasil  •  hot water, wind scoop  •  Italian Tomato  •  Beneteau 35s5  •  economic change in India

Local Craft Review, Hong Kong Yachting Association, Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong Model Yachting Association, from Pratas, Vietnamese rattan boat, 13th century Chinese navigation, Jumbo, Typhoon 89  •  Lindenhoff  •  use of EPIRBs  •  people power progress

Floating clinics, a load of rubbish, harbour drain, stamps and ships Hong Kong, saving a Vietnamese craft, salute to the Queen of Heaven, junk hunt in Hainan  •  Gatsby 39 review  •  battery installation and charging  •  Lema Islands Race, San Fernando Race  •  non yuppie eateries, Kaneko, La Toison D’or  •  monetarism with Chinese characteristics  •  Passport 41 boat test

EPA Four Peaks Race, the San Fernando, sponsorship of the San Fernando, Beneteau Owners Rally, Macau Stopover  •  Port Health, Chee Hong and Chee Wan, Hunter Wallof’s junk makes Hong Kong, update on Boracay, Cocachin’s voyage and Unesco, Gordon Hard and a sailing Gurkha  •  battery capacity, power trimming, fast carriage lifeboat development, gear test  •  JK’s, Caffrey’s  •  a copper-bottomed certainty

Match racing attracts the best, Raid Mer De Chine  •  Immigration and the Harbour Sub-Division, search and rescue 1988, real life rescue, harbour craft, coastal rowing boats, building Long Hai in Xiamen, working for wealthy owners, Clearwater Bay Marina ceremonies, the wind tunnel, Lei Yue Mun  •  the basics of electricity  •  Baltic 52  •  Ristorante Il Mercato  •  East Asia good and getting better

Piracy and guns  •  the pollution solution, Noonday Gun, marina conference 3, Wolfson Unit, SAREX 88, JMSA and Mizuho  •  Sonata and Ruffian championships  •  bilge pumping system  •  Simpson—UK newsletter  •  Promenade Restaurant  •  focus on China south

Cooking at sea, the meaning of Fragrant Harbour, USS Vincennes, James Baldwin’s dream becomes reality, the Way Foong, the pirate Mrs Ching, Seamen’s Training Centre, Harbour Patrol  •  causes of vibration  •  Restaurant Ciao  •  Japan holds inflation by the reins

Ganesha’s sorry story, Barbara Karran in Langkawi and Phuket, rowing in Hong Kong, Charlie Ling, Cocachin’s masts, Fire Services  •  PNG Windsurfing Cup, DHL Regatta ’88, Mirs Bay Race, Furama Multi-Hull Regatta  •  fixed fire extinguishers  •  Gunga Din’s Club, Thai Kitchen  •  Asian property  •  HMS Ark

Antifouling sheathing, autopilots, exhaust systems  •   letter to San Fernando Race chairman, Customs and Excise, enjoying Malaysia, Clearance Diving Unit, cruise to Macau, Koxinga the pirate, Byzance II, Neil Pryde  •  The Galley, Dragon Spring family hotel  •  will baby boomers save the day?

New marina in sight, out of Singapore, HMS Tamar, Seato Nautique, junk pirates, more on models  •  antifouling protection, outboard engines, stern glands, boat security  •  USS Enterprise  •  Le Must  •  Malaysia bounces back

Pryde looking at US, Johore River cruising, Typhoon 88, shipping control, Sail Training Association, Harry Lo, cruising the Ryukyus, boats of the Ryukyus, Starcraft, going ashore, the Keying, the comfort factor  •  inverters  •  East Ocean Seafood Restaurant  •  we all love Thailand but   

Red duster bites the dust, nautical terms, out and about in Singapore, dynamically supported craft, Marine Police, rafting in Borneo, Three Jewel Eunuch, Hutchison gets into sailmaking  •  alternators  •  Precision 40  •  China Sea Race Series  •  Harcourt Kitchen  •  Oriental Macbeth or Oriental Switzerland

Seafood restaurants, The Belvedere  •  Singapore and the modern world, welcome to Kota Kinabalu Yacht Club, typhoon shelters, rafting in Taiwan, seven voyages of Zheng He, houseboats on the Thames  •  seacocks and pipework  •  in-water Marina Cove show  •  Japanese economic growth

Doug Wilde, English as she is spoke, Hello Malaysia, Jin Jiang, government craft, Mr Fan’s yard, ancient technology in China, Outboard Marine Asia  •  starter motors, Walker Wingsail  •  Round Lantau Race, Southern Cross Series  •  Valentino Ristorante Italiano  •  direct investment in China

Mikado and BBC Challenge in town, Dreamin’ of a red Christmas, cruising the Philippines, Government dockyard Canton Road, water tactics, places to windsurf, Tashing story, stamps and ships, Pat Pender in Oz, Peter Leung junk builder  •  pumps,  •  match racing,  •  Powercat 348 review,  •  Margaux at Shangri-la Hotel  •  head for the hills . . . not yet

Round the Island Race  •  seasickness, beautiful Palau, vessel traffic management, Carib Dory, Walter Dunn & Co, domestic water supply, construction of Cocachin  •  picking the financial pieces  •  UK Sailmakers Simpson Marine supplement  •  Siam Palace

Port Shelter Regatta, Dunhill China Coast Race  •  engine servicing  •  aids to navigation, the Adventure Ship Huan, George Falconer (Nautical) Ltd, water tactics, UK Sailmakers in Hong Kong, farewell to Papua New Guinea, Marco Polo, are you properly dressed?  •  California, Guilin  •  employment by industry

DHL Regatta, Dunhill Mirs Bay Race, Papua New Guinea Cup  •  new police launch, local certificates of competency, voyage of the Tai Ki, water tactics again  •  inboard engine operation, travelling microwave, from the Boatique, Radio Holland in Aberdeen  •  Bentley’s Seafood Restaurant & Oyster Bar, Weinstube, Someplace Else  •  video  •  Juppies and playaholics

A more fragrant harbour, Gaastra going strong, PNG festive season, entry and clearance procedures, rafting, Fu Sang – a Chinese ‘New World’  •  Mirs Bay Race  •  propeller care  •  lunch in TST, Five Continents  •  Davis still miles ahead, Noble House  •  Bohemians, molehills, mountains and salvage, a long way to go for PNG

Propellers, search and rescue, VTronix, PNG’s scenery and volcanoes, junkmen’s gods, speeding restrictions  •  Shark Cat arousing interest, Ocean Alexander in Hong Kong, Cheong Lee Sailmakers, Nordica and Bob Matthews, Volga 275 hydrofoil  •  Sunset Series  •  Le Tire Bouchon  •  Taiwan’s spots change

Fire fighting, pollution control, lift and drag, typhoons, local courses given by HKYA, the YBDSA and ABYA, dragons and boats, Aquaman  •  Hylas 47, windsurfing boards to buy  •  RHKYC Spring Regatta  •  The Palm, Cammino, Hotel New Harbour Coffee Shop  •  Freddie Aguilar in concert  •  cash now cup later

Fire prevention, good fung shui, how a boat sails, licensing a pleasure craft, Discovery Bay happenings, in praise of the junk, landfall Papua New Guinea, Walker Wing Sail  •  San Fernando Race 1987  •  Sri Lanka Club, Tong Fuk Store, Sea Breeze Hotel  •  Mainly about Rick’s, Park Lane Hotel  •  new video releases  •  money is important  •  Manila Boat Show

Why fires occur, a Gardner specialist in the Far East, White Dragon update, the Hong Kong Marine Department, Islander local boat yard, Tamarind, Duk Ling in China, waking up in paradise  •  getting ready for San Fernando  •  Queen’s Café, La Rose Noire  •  PADI courses at La Galleon, entertainment at the Dickens Bar  •  sailing and investment

Outboard engine operation, don’t fall over the side, Puerto Galera, meeting large ships, filming Taipan, incident in Manila  •  EPA Four Peaks Race •  Bocarino’s Grill, Rangoon Restaurant, The Chili Club  •  Marbella Marina, KPS, The Juke Box, Afrozilla

Bilge pumps, Dave Rumble’s Sidewinder, trimarans in Negros, varnish advice, Osprey saga, Duk Ling film charters, Adventure Ship Huan slipping, , the Telekan Aga, Macau maritime museum, are you in distress?  •  The Four Pubs Race, COA Macau Stopover Race   •  Rigoletto, Capital restaurant, Bob’s Mexican Mess, Spice Island Gourment Club  •  Rocking in Shanghai, bonsai exhibition  

What to know about salvage, inboard engine cooling systems, calculating degrees  •  Missions to Seamen and Mariners’ Club, America’s Cup paintings, fire in Aberdeen, Chas from Tas, Boracay, windsurf boards, insurance, Duk Ling in Typhoon Ellen, Mike Allen and Boatshop Philippines  •  AMC boat show  •  1997, the perfect snack, Beverly Hills Deli  •  another Hong Kong, videos, at the Dickens  

Rowdy, licenced or registered, types of moorings, living aboard Duk Ling, new insurance clauses, Bohol Divers Lodge  •  stern bearings  •  Sun Legende 41, Mazinga  •  Flying Fifteen Worlds, Round the Island  •  Café Swiss, Caroline’s Place, Viceroy of India, The Pink Giraffe  •  Richard Thornton interview, Guide to the Festive Season, video selection, Steve Gadd

Transmission system  •  Britannia in Hong Kong, search and rescue, Merchant Navy Officers’ Guild, causes of tides, nautical terms, Ekpac China, Stevens Custom 50 Pilothouse, jellyfish  •  Sonata International Championships  •  Ming Kee, Holling’s, Smash is not mash, Shanghai food, Louis’ Steak House, Runaway Za Kissaten, dining in Shanghai

Operating cycles, composite (carbon fiber)  •  Aquel II largest sloop, Neil and Linda Cumming, Admiralty charts, the Hong Kong Shell Society, Dick Justice, Australian customs info, Shanghai improvements, fishing for good luck, cowries (family Cypraedae)  •  Sawadee, Café Adriatico, San Shui, Jo Jo Mess Club, Sichuan Garden, curry, Pebbles  •  Charter Boats / Ulmer Kolius News supplement Autumn 1986

Operating cycles, Shanghai blues, Pelagius Yacht Services, gnomic chart and projection, Celestius, Peter Cree, Ronsil Marine Center, Imperial Poona Yacht Club, Windjammer Cruises, Hudson on the rocks, squid, Stanley Services Boat Club­, windsurfing, Mike Allen  •  First 51  •  Perfume River, La Taverna, The Den, St Moritz, truffles

Outboard engine construction, Folkland, Suzuki V6, Celestial, Nauticat 521, Ocean fenders  •  The Osprey, Cheju-do, Mercator charts, incident in Manila, Diana Gilson, Mariners Club  •  Blue Ocean, Blazes, Texas Rib House, roasts

Engine construction, satellite navigation  •  assistance in Taiwan, mooring fees, development of windsurfing sail, seagulls, Pryde, salvage charges, China Fleet Club, fish farms  •  Golden Elephant Thai Restaurant, Seasons Bar & Café, Four Seasons Chinese Fondue Restaurant, Sunbird Coffee Shop  •  Charter Boats / Horizon Ulmer Kolius News

Ignition systems, antifoulings, Yanmar  •  Smart Yacht Buying Guide, Tin Hau Festival, The Star Ferry, Juliana’s . . . and the China Sea Race, Max de Rham and Geldermalsen, watch out, Peter Newsome’s liberation, Adventure Ship  •  Mozart Stub’n, San Marco, Mckai’s, Martino Coffee Shop  •  China Sea Race

Fuel supply systems, development of windsurfer sail, decks, diving compressors  •  McIntosh, Peng Chau, Charter Boats, Koh Samui, The Aberdeen Marina  •  Casa Mexicana, Tortilla, SMI, Japanese Food Shop  •  China Sea Race

Types of fuel, non slip paints, masts  •  Zakoske models, development of the windsurfer sail, Ben Oakley, get more for your money, Great Little Bear, Leizhou Peninsula, Rosalind Miranda and Miranav, Made in Taiwan  •  New Delhi, Jimmy’s Kitchen

Engine cooling, water on a boar  •  the heaving line, Ken Choi, explaining osmosis, hi-tech boards, Stanley Tin Hau Temple, flash cards, South Yemen, Royal Observatory, Windsurfing Asia  •  Eagle 32  •  Brown’s, below the yardarm

Oil additives, rudders, new products,   •  Dogwatch, YBDSA, Zanoni, Mike Simpson’s CT38, S&S 36 by Holiday Boats, West Wind, Misty’s View, Ji Fung

Alternators and batteries, yacht stability, anchors, Xiamen  •  Beneteau extra, insurance, Nautical Nonsense  •  Hylas 42 and 44  

South China Boat Show, prizes, boat graphics, windsurfer on show, Misty’s view, about Beneteau, getting into Macau, Jack Brooks  •  flat battery, radio, Logtron-K, winches

Pryde of Hong Kong, Mauri Morin, pleasure craft exams, arriving in the colony  •  Pacemaker 40

Australian confidence, junk market, windsurfing in Shek-O, cooler Huan, board in Bali