A good sailing season at last! The weather has helped many of us to make coastal cruises, some memorable, all enjoyable, and accounts of them are beginning to reach the Bulletin. The kind of cruising seems to have been as varied as the kinds of boat. Some pottered happily as weekend followed weekend with the gentle breezes which convert newcomers to dinghy cruising. Others made sea-going cruises, some long and arduous, all of them adventurous in dinghies. Although we have now had it proved time and again that the experienced can make really long passages, the kind of sailing for which a dinghy is uniquely suited is, after all, the exploration of all the little inshore channels which are closed to larger boats.

Thanks to the hard work of a few members, notably Brian Naylor, we now have the East Coast section of the Handbook. All those cruising on that coast should find its guide to landing places most useful. One result of a fine summer should be that many of us have discovered new anchorages and explored more thoroughly creeks not known to us all. Perhaps some of us will find time during the winter to get this information into a suitable form for an extension of the Handbook to other coasts? J. A.