In the new March 2013 issue of Yachting World, Elaine Bunting gets the inside story from the ARC crews on maintenance, money and crew harmony, we retrace Adlard Coles’ early cruise along the Dutch/German coast in a tiny 20ft engineless sloop and our boat test editor, Toby Hodges, puts the Advanced Yachts 66 and the Hanse 415 through their paces.

Plus find out what happened when we tested 12 lifejackets in the RNLI pool, which £500 piece of kit saved a catamaran from sinking and Matthew Sheahan chooses three hot new racers to watch for the 2013 season.

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