In W91, our January/February 2012 issue - in newsagents from 22 December - you’ll find….

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• Forget the doom and disillusion; Kathy Mansfield has a great story about engagement. The Multimono is radical French gaffer designed to be built from a simple pre-cut plywood kit and sailed by young people. click to see

• If Noddy had a boat…. The youngsters always want to go faster but when Graham Young gave up motorbikes, he was determined to enjoy going slower. Not just when sailing his pocket cruiser Pickle but while building her too. click to see

• Perhaps home boatbuilding should be slow. From Nova Scotia, designer and ex-pat Cornishman Paul Gartside sends building plans for a once-ubiquitous oar-and-sail workboat; a build you’ll not want to rush. click to see

• Sailing the BayCruiser 23: It’s the largest of the attention-getting Swallow Boats range but emptied of its water ballast, it’s still easily trailed, as Alice Driscoll discovers. click to see

• Coming Home: It’s over 25 years since the American writer Peter H Spectre rowed a traditional skiff down the Thames. Last September, he returned for a ‘boatman’s holiday’. So what’s changed? click to see

• The English Raid Goes East.  The concept of small boat cruises in company seems perfect for the swatchways and backwaters of England’s East Coast. But it needed Moray MacPhail to make it happen. click to see

• And what about you making it happen? We have full entry details for both of our competitions at the Beale Park Boat Show in June: our long-running Amateur Boat Building Awards and back by popular demand, the Water Craft Makita Cordless Canoe Challenge. Click here to see movie.