Boating-sailing
Practical Boat Owner
Clampdown on liveaboards in Las Palmas marina 'will not affect cruising sailors'
Boat owners are challenging an eviction order from a Canary Islands marina that affects hundreds of local liveaboards ~but visiting sailors and the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) 'are still welcome.'
2 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Two restored luggers
The Zulu St Vincent and the Lochfyne skiff Clan Gordon are sailing again thanks to the Tanera Mor Restoration Project, as Mike Smylie reports
9 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
There's no place like home
When I first wrote about Amy Cartwright and Matt Humphreys of Sailing Yacht Florence (PBO, March 2023), they were approaching the finish of a seven-year circumnavigation on their 1985 Oyster Heritage 37.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Nature meets technology in European project to restore ocean life
A new project is bringing together seaweed, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
ABC of seamanship
Andrew Morton explains the steps he took to make sure he could manoeuvre safely alongside a new jetty in potentially shallow water
4 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
How to bend acrylic
Andy Pag discovers that replacing the curved saloon windows of his Lagoon 410 is far from straightforward
6 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Not half good
Americans have taken boat upcycling and recycling to another level
3 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Check black water pump or risk sinking
Gilbert Park shares lessons learned from a messy job that may have saved his boat during a French cruising holiday
4 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
A boat by any other name...
Luck, skill, automation, craftsmanship
3 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Early mistakes
Trevor Martin recalls a testing voyage that taught him almost all he needed to know for the next 20 years of sailing
9 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Freedom sail
Bill Barna cruises in company to Guernsey, Jersey, France and back
9 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
How to become fully inverted
Roger Hughes explains how he installed a powerful new source of silent AC power into his yacht
7 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Plea to properly fund the waterways
Campaigners took a 26-strong flotilla of boats to Westminster to deliver a message to the nation's policy makers about the need to protect the future of Britain's inland waterways.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Caring for anodes
Tips from the experts at boatcare for checking and replacing anodes
6 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Good landings
A boat that takes the ground provides greater freedom and opens up more safe havens
5 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Laser Tools electric fluid extraction
Lack of access means that, unlike cars and most other road vehicles, oil changes for inboard marine engines usually involve sucking the old oil out through the dipstick tube.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
DZR explained
Vyv Cox busts the myths surrounding the use of dezincification-resistant (DZR) seacock materials
4 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Cutting new teeth
Dick Everitt takes a DIY approach to make multitool blades last a little bit longer
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Safety recommendations made after tragic loss of Sonar keelboat sailor
A report into the death of a crew member who drowned while sailing a Sonar-class keelboat off the Isle of Wight in 2022, has highlighted several safety concerns.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
How to be more fuel efficient
Jake Kavanagh looks at how the shipping sector saves fuel and how this is filtering down into the leisure motorboat market
5 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Westerly Typhoon 37
Rupert Holmes looks at his favourite Westerly model of all time and other alternative boats you might consider
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Bonny big waves
Crew training and a delivery trip provide an exhilarating start to the sailing season
3 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Concerns over what's in HVO fuel
Switching recreational vessels from fossil diesel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) is a way to reduce your boat's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions without modifying your current diesel engine.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Ella plans to sail solo round the Arctic
British yachtswoman Ella Hibbert is undertaking an expedition to become the first person to sail solo, non-stop, around the Arctic—an achievement only made possible by the alarming pace of sea ice decline.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Practical Boat Owner
East Coast to West Baltic
Carl and Trina Buck sail their Bavaria 38 from Norfolk to the Baltic, Sweden's Bohuslan archipelago and East Danish islands
7 min |
July 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Can you trust your anchor chain?
It’s all well and good having a solid anchor, but having ground tackle that’s going to keep you secure is equally important, says Vyv Cox
9 min |
July 2025
Practical Boat Owner
BUYERS GUIDE Which chartplotter?
Furuno’s NAVNet TZtouch 3 range is available in 10in and 13in screens. An ‘XL’ version is available in 16, 22 and 24in all-glass MFDs. ‘Hybrid control’ means you can edge-swipe and tap for the menu, or use buttons in rough sea conditions.
3 min |
July 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Storm-damaged mast forestay repair
Winston Collinge and his boating pal John Beck repair the mast of a 40-year-old Colvic Atlanta following severe weather
4 min |
July 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Praising solo sailing women
May’s a good month to recall the exploits of several inspiring solo-sailing women
3 min |
July 2025
Practical Boat Owner
Out of the fog and into the future
Paul Jones, a dab hand with a sextant, was reluctant to get to grips with electronic navigation-but now he teaches both methods!
8 min |