Motor Boat & Yachting UK
NEW APREAMARE 48
Fans of Apreamare's traditional Med style sportscruisers will be delighted to hear that the yard is launching a new wheelhouse version of its attractive open Gozzo 45.
1 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
YOUR MBY
PHILIP STEVENS sent us this photo of his Fairline Targa 43, Petty Cash, taken in Punta Negra, Mallorca. Wrapped in silver after the original blue gelcoat started to fade, it now looks as good as new. Not that it's stopped him from recently upgrading to an even newer Fairline Targa 45!
1 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
SCILLY SEASON
Simon Ellis's mission to visit every harbour between Poole and the Isles of Scilly hits new highs on the stretch from Torquay to Plymouth
8 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
HOW TO CHECK YOUR COOLING SYSTEM
Unlike cars, which use air to cool the liquid coolant flowing through the engine and radiator, most boats rely on the water they're floating on to keep their engines cool.
3 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
SHADOW 26
The original Shadow 26 was launched in 1988. Designed by award-winning designer, Bill Dixon, it was a wheelhouse cruiser that was offered with two hull options: a vee hull with outdrives for coastal use; or a displacement hull with a keel that ran with a single diesel.
1 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
MCCONAGHY
THE BRAND
2 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
DRACAN
THE BRAND
2 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
ELAN POWER 30
Sometimes, things just don't seem to add up in the boating world. Take for example the Elan Power 30 - a sweet little sportscruiser if ever there was one. When we first tested it back in 2015, we described it as a vessel with a sleek modern form that was brilliantly engaging to drive. We also pointed out that it was extremely competitively priced compared to its nearest rivals of the day, the Jeanneau Leader 9 and the Grandezza 3300C.
6 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
HAINES 32
Launched at the Southampton Boat Show in 2014, Haines tapped into its existing customer base to come up with suggestions on how to make this the best 30ft river cruiser around. And many of the details, like the illuminated side step integrated into the hull to aid boarding, are based on that client feedback.
1 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
LAGOON
THE BRAND
2 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PRESTIGE
THE BRAND
2 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
SHEERLINE 950
Built in Wroxham, with the Norfolk Broads on the doorstep and other inland areas very much in mind, the 950 was one of Sheerline's most successful models.
1 min |
August 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE HerrING HERITAGE
A resurgence of interest in lug-rigged sailing vessels showcases the importance of Scotland's former booming herring industry
6 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
A RAID UP THE ESTUARY
The fourth instalment of Paul Weston's Napoleonic series of novels finds Lieutenant Snowden and the Oleander off the coast of Brittany. He has been tasked with 'duties not normally required of a sea-officer' and is thus even more free than usual to use his initiative and seize his chances.
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
The first official account of the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht
The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released the first official account of the sudden tragic sinking of the 56m Bayesian superyacht in August 2024, in which seven people died, including the yacht's owner Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
Ella casts off solo around the Arctic
Yachtswoman Ella Hibbert has cast off from Haslar Marina, Gosport, on an expedition to become the first person to sail solo, non-stop around the Arctic, a 10,000-mile journey that will see her transit both the Northwest and the Northeast Passages.
2 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
GBR para-athlete in record-breaking around Britain challenge
GBR para-athlete, Jazz Turner, departed from Brighton Marina in early June in an attempt to break three records as the first disabled person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Britain.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
Crew changes are the hardest part of cruising
Trying to retrieve the kids in Camaret meant missing several tides and the only fine day
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
Sailing without any hands [literally]
To my horror the tar-sided old barge clonked into yacht after yacht
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
PREPARING YOUR YACHT FOR SALE
When it comes to selling a yacht, the secret to a swift and successful sale often lies in the smallest of details, writes Susannah Hart
4 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
OWNERS' UPGRADE
‘I HAD MY OLD SWING KEEL FULLY REFURBISHED ...'
6 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
HALLBERG-RASSY 372
Hallberg-Rassy's most recent 37-footer flexes her muscle, but is she still an easy and solid boat to sail short-handed? Nic Compton went to find out
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
How to communicate at sea
What communications equipment do you really need to stay safe and keep in touch? Alan Denham explores options for every budget and cruising ambition
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
To Bonnie Scotland
Yes - we left! The Kemp family cast off from Ipswich, sailed around the South Coast, touched Ireland and have now reached the Scottish west coast, though not without drama, as Amy explains...
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
REPLACING ANODES
Simple anode maintenance will prevent costly corrosion damage to your boat...
2 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE AROUND BRITAIN - CAPE WRATIL AND BEYOND
Nick Leather sails his Westerly Storm, Musketeer, from The Inner Hebrides to the South Coast – the final stages of a tremendous circumnavigation of the British Isles
8 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
GOING WIRELESS FOR EASIER CRUISING
Unstayed rigs make so much more sense than stayed rigs, reckons Nic Charman, so why are they still the exception?
6 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
SAILING THE SHIPPING FORECAST
Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them
8 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
UK Sailing Academy appoints CEO
The UK Sailing Academy (UKSA), a Cowes-based charity dedicated to equipping young people for fulfilling careers in maritime industries, has appointed Catherine Dixon as its new Chief Executive Officer.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
THE ELLEN MACARTHUR CANCER TRUST
If you would like to recommend a marine charity doing great work (including care for the environment) contact julia@golden-duck.co.uk
2 min |