Boating_Sailing
Practical Boat Owner
Tried & Tested
Will Renilson improves boat handling aboard his Jersey 36
4 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
New Gear
Rupert Holmes gets an early look at the latest ideas
5 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Back to (sea) school
James Wood gets to grip with navigation, passage planning, tides, buoyage, Colregs and more on his RYA Day Skipper Theory course
8 min |
March 2023
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Changing times
Alasdair Kirkpatrick tells Ali Wood about narrowboat innovations including a fully accessible design plus hybrid and electric propulsion
5 min |
March 2023
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Slow boat through the mountains
James Wood discovers the joys and challenges of narrow boating in the Brecon Beacons
10+ min |
March 2023
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Azores and back THE SCENIC ROUTE
Phil Taylor dusts off the charts and turns a winter dream into reality after overhauling his Sabre 27 for a bluewater cruising adventure
10+ min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
17-20ft POCKET CRUISERS
Whether you're moving on from dinghies, or downsizing to a boat that's fun without being a financial millstone, here's a trailer-sailer market guide
10+ min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
The Maxi with the most
Why has the Maxi 84 proved so popular since her launch 45 years ago? David Harding sailed Maximus, the 'work in progress' refurbished PBO Project Boat, to find out
10 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Working boats for leisure
Strong and often cheap, retired working boats make good leisure vessels if you don’t mind fettling to repurpose them
3 min |
March 2023
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Rudder bother
You know something's up when you're going round in circles with the tiller straight ahead
3 min |
March 2023
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Beachcombing
How wrecking became a fine art on the dangerously rocky Isles of Scilly
3 min |
March 2023
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Plastic classics
A vintage boat doesn't win the same admiration as an elderly car - but it should!
3 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
UK drops National Flagship plans
The Ministry of Defence and Defence Equipment & Support has suspended the design procurement process for the new National Flagship.
1 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Marine micro-organisms mission
Every day in every boatyard, marina and port the cleaning of hulls, slipways and marine infrastructure kills billions of marine micro-organisms – all vital for sustaining wildlife and the food chain all the way up to human beings.
1 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Invitation to female offshore passagemakers
The adventure company 59° North Sailing has announced that it will now reserve two bunks for women on its offshore sailing passages.
1 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
'Ordinary crew' wanted for global sailing race
The organiser of the 2023 Ocean Globe Race, Don McIntyre, is looking for crew to sail with him in the round-the-world race.
1 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
My near-miss up a mast
A transatlantic sailor has told of her ordeal after a gust knocked her off the mast, jamming her harness, and swinging her repeatedly into the rigging.
3 min |
March 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Worrying times for UK's seabirds
The UK is currently experiencing its worst-ever outbreak of avian flu, commonly known as bird flu.
3 min |
March 2023
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Post-Covid cruising in Greece
After two and a half years John Woolf returns to his Carambola 38 in Greece and spends three weeks getting her seaworthy again
6 min |
December 2022
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A flood of costs and a trickle of cash
Andy Pag attempts to rebuild a Spectra watermaker on a budget
7 min |
December 2022
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As darkness falls
Mike Humphreys risks grounding his Halcyon 23 in fading light to assist two teenagers stuggling with a capsized dinghy
8 min |
December 2022
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A cruise on the French Riviera
Owen Moorhouse leaves the wilds of the New South Wales coastline to explore from Nice to Grimaud and back in a borrowed Jeanneau 33
6 min |
December 2022
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Time, tide and the Thames
Unlike Arthur Ransome’s story, Trevor Cherrett really did mean to take his boat to sea but it didn't quite work out that way
9 min |
December 2022
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A yacht called Alice
Nicholas Bielby had always had a yen for steel-hulled yachts, so when the opportunity came up to own one that had survived being hit by a tanker, he couldn't resist developing her as a comfortable, family cruiser
7 min |
December 2022
Practical Boat Owner
Would you cross an ocean in this?
Andrew Bedwell is preparing a world record attempt to cross the Atlantic in a 3ft 10in boat Ali Wood meets him at Southampton Boat Show
5 min |
December 2022
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Dufour 32
Peter Poland reports on the new 32-footer that reflects the many changes made down the years in the designs and dimensions of production cruising yachts
8 min |
December 2022
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A buoyant boat market?
Peter Poland assesses how new boats at the Southampton International Boat Show reflect the current state of the sail and power markets
10+ min |
December 2022
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Bigger Luggers
Designed to be a safe family boat for coastal trios, the Drascombe and Devon Luggers have taken intrepid sailors on some long sea passages
5 min |
December 2022
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A magical day
Looking back over the year, one very special sail stands out: the day of the dolphins
3 min |
December 2022
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Sail souvenirs
Reaching down memory lane in the Big Shed
3 min |