On Sale 13 June 1999

• Return of the J Class
  
  For the first time ever, the remaining three J Class yachts, Endeavour, Shamrock and Velsheda, raced together at Antigua Classics Regatta. David Glenn was on board Velsheda

• Ocean cruising, yesterday and today
  
  Back in the 1950s and 1960s, when the likes of Eric and Susan Hiscock were pioneers of modern bluewater cruising, it would have been unthinkable for a crew of just two to take a 78ft ketch across the Pacific. But that’s exactly what Steve and Linda Dashew did, in their yacht Beowulf – and in the cyclone season

• Rationing the ZZZZZs
  
  Sleep deprivation is synonymous with long distance solo sailing, so how do single-handers cope on minimal shut-eye? James Boyd talks to some of the skippers in Around Alone and to a specialist in sleep routines who has researched and evolved the best methods of managing catnaps

• E-mail on Board
  
  More and more bluewater cruising yachtsmen are using e-mail as their primary means of communication. In the first of two articles, James Boyd looks at what’s available