Motor Boat & Yachting UK
GOOD AS NEW
Why fit a brand new engine when Volvo Penta's remanufacturing service can rebuild you an old one to the same standard for a fraction of the price?
4 min |
October 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YACHT TRANSPORT
As the name suggests it's a means of having your boat moved professionally from one location to another. It might be as simple as hiring someone to tow your RIB a few miles down the road or as complex as shipping a superyacht halfway around the world.
8 min |
October 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
HANDLE A SINGLE SHAFTDRIVE BOAT PART 1
Single shaftdrive boats are relatively rare these days but the reduced costs of buying, servicing and fuelling such a simple but reliable drivetrain does mean they are making a bit of a comeback.
2 min |
October 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
COCKWELLS MOTOR LAUNCH
There can be very few boats that have appeared three times at the Southampton Boat Show and been sold off the stand each time.
5 min |
October 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
ZEELANDER
If you like your boats exclusive to the point of almost unattainable, there's a Dutch builder that can help...
8 min |
October 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BUYING OUR FIRST CLASSIC
Instead of whiling away their retirement playing bowls, Rob and Shona Adams decided to invest their time and money in a classic Silver gentleman's yacht. Would the gamble pay off?
9 min |
October 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
INSTALLING AN AUTOPILOT
Rick Channon makes solo boating simple with a Raymarine Evolution Autopilot
4 min |
October 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
TECHNICAL PURCHASING POWER
Sam Fortescue explains how to check you have the power needed to handle your running rigging safely - and how to fix it if you don't
10+ min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
NEW GEAR
Dennis O'Neill reviews the latest products designed to make sailing safer and easier
3 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Orcas sink a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar
A pod of orcas attacked and sank a 15m yacht in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar in May, the latest in a series of encounters in the area that have sunk five yachts in the past four years, the Spanish maritime authorities reported.
2 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Why Pip Hare needs you now
Sailing with Pip Hare last week reminded me of my father’s sailing mantra: ‘It’s all about drag.’
2 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Picking up fore and aft moorings
Mooring fore and aft can be a fiddly process, never more so than in Cornwall's Polperro. If you can do it here, says Rachael Sprot, then you can do it anywhere
6 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HOW TO DODGE GALES IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY
Ken Endean tries a two-anchorage strategy
8 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
'NEVER BEFORE HAVE I SAILED IN SUCH WILD WEATHER'
When Jeremy Edwards and his sister were hit by a 'weather bomb' en route to Tonga it gave him a new-found respect for his sister's skippering ability
9 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE RACING AROUND THE WORLD
First Mate Rachel Burgess tells YM what it was like to race 28.000 miles around the world to win the Ocean Globe Race with her all-female crew aboard Maiden
7 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
FIRST TEST DUFOUR 41
There have always been yachts that claim to offer the best of all worlds. They lure you in with the promise of being able to luxuriate in spacious opulence after a day of exhilarating sailing.
9 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Ella Hibbert to sail to Norway and Russia in Arctic preparation
Intrepid 27-year-old sailor Ella Hibbert has made the difficult decision to delay her departure to sail solo around the Arctic circle until next year, but will instead depart this summer on a training expedition to Norway and Russia in preparation.
2 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE THE CALL OF THE SOUTH SEAS
What is the call of the South Seas? The Hoiland family were curious to find out, so they set off west to explore. This is the story of their year sailing through the islands and atolls of French Polynesia
9 min |
Summer 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Mile-long RNLI flotilla for 200th anniversary
As the RNLI celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, more than 40 rescue vessels formed a flotilla more than a mile long in Poole in May.
1 min |
Summer 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
HOW TO MARK YOUR ANCHOR
Anchoring in a pretty bay is one of boating’s greatest joys but it can also be a cause of considerable angst: How much chain should I put out? What’s the seabed like? Will I get stuck? What if I drag? Many of these concerns can be solved by laying the correct amount of cable (called scope) for the depth and conditions.
2 min |
July 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
THEN THERE WAS LIGHT
Four-season boater, Gilbert Park, hunts down the perfect marine spotlight
3 min |
July 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BOAT DECKING
In the first of o our new series of guides we discuss...
7 min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Boats for restoring under £20,000
Duncan Kent picks the best sub-35ft sail and power boats to look for when aiming to undertake a restoration on a budget
10+ min |
Summer 2024
Practical Boat Owner
IZIBoat: simple sailing
Rupert Holmes sails an innovative catamaran design intended to widen participation in sailing among those with little time to get on the water in more conventional craft
7 min |
Summer 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
AXOPAR 29
To say the Axopar 28 is a tough act to follow is an understatement - can the Finnish brand's latest iteration offer genuine improvements on its super popular predecessor?
10 min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Dominant minimalism
Every yachtsman's a superyacht owner
3 min |
Summer 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
TREASURE ISLAND
THE IMAGE THAT ROCKED OUR BOAT THIS MONTH
10+ min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Orca sink yacht in Strait of Gibraltar
Spain's maritime rescue service, Salvamento Maritimo, has reported that a 15m (49ft) yacht sank in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar following interaction with a pod of orca.
1 min |
Summer 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Cream tea carnage at sea
The crew's 'scone mad' on a Thames barge
3 min |
Summer 2024
Practical Boat Owner
No kill cord or lifejackets were worn during fatal powerboat crash
A kill cord and lifejacket are useless unless worn-that's the warning from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB), following its investigation into a powerboat crash that killed a 32-year-old woman and five-year-old girl on 2 October 2022.
2 min |