• Boat World: The Sail and Powerboat Yearbook 1971, now in its eighth edition, is to hand from Sell's Publications Ltd., Sell's House, 39 East Street, Epsom, Surrey, price £1.25. This annual handbook for boat owners is packed with articles on such subjects as Knots and Ropework, The Seaway Code, A Basic Approach to Electronic Aids in Navigation, Safety at Sea with Pyrotechnics and Weather Forecasting.

There are also special features describing the newest developments in boating, ranging from polystyrene hulls to piezoelectric elements. The publishers have a reader's inquiry department which last year answered 3,000 readers' inquiries.

Once again there is a postcard inserted in the yearbook if you want information on any subject relating to boats which cannot be found in the actual volume.• Also from the above publishers—Sell's Publications Ltd.—is Boat World Guide to Dinghies, price 50p. Apparently there are at present, sailing in this country alone, over 600 designs of dinghies.

% From Educational Productions Ltd., East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire, come a number of useful pocket booklets in the Know the Game Series. There is Life Saving published in collaboration with the Royal Life Saving Society, price 20p; Motor Boating and Water Ski-ing published in collaboration with the Yacht and Motor Boat Association and the British Water Ski Federation, price 25p, and Sailing with a foreword by Peter Scott, price 20p.

Sea Horse A horse went for a six-mile swim on 30th April before it was turned back to shore by the Howth life-boat. The sea-loving horse was spotted six miles off Howth and was swimming in the direction of Lambay when life-boat crewmen, George Duffy and Myles Moore, 'herded' the animal back to shore. The horse went into the sea at Claremont Strand, Howth, and was 'steered' back to shore at Portmarnock Strand, where the horse galloped off..