An excellent magazine going from strength to strength on the basis of its scholarship. Wide range of West country based articles and longer pieces on sail & steam and motor and shipping merchant & naval of all classes. all in excellent card covers. 292pp.133 photos and illustrations. Contributions are excellent and cover many local interests including the Clovelly herring boats; British yachting narratives 1604-2005; the tanning of nets and sails; Cornish traders Ltd of Falmouth; the East Budleigh ship; the building, launching and sailing of "Alert" a replica of the smuggling lugger 1835; Seaman in Victorian Gloucester; the personal log of a Victorian coasting sailor; an excellent recollection/memoir of the Royal research ship "RESEARCH", the non-magnetic ship built prior Second World War 1936-39; finally, the Salcombe Cannon site.