Yachting Monthly

SKIPPERS’ TIPS & YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

THIS MONTH’S EXPERTS

HELEN MELTON and her family have been sailing for decades, exploring the British, Irish and French coastlines. They now own the Westerly Ocean 43, SeaEye.

OLIVER PERKINS, author of Reading the Clouds, has been cruising for years and races dinghies nationally. He now skippers the family’s Beneteau Oceanis 361.

RACHAEL SPROT, former director of Rubicon 3, is a Yachtmaster Instructor with an impressive number of sea miles logged, from Lofoten to St Lucia and beyond.

JOHN WILLIS has been

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