Motor Boat & Yachting
REALISATION OF A DREAM
A boyhood dream comes to life as Dominic Barratt specs his dream Dale 28
5 min |
September 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
OUR FLOATING HOLIDAY HOME
Why spend your precious summer break in one place when you can witness a different horizon each day from a spacious, family-friendly motorboat? James and Francesca Leaver’s 59ft Van Der Valk offers all this and more
10+ min |
September 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
MY FANTASY FLEET
Fred Haines – current boat: Beneteau Swift Trawler 34 & Jeanneau Cap Camarat 625WA
2 min |
September 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
FROM WRECK TO RACER
Restoration of the world’s last remaining Bertram 31 ‘Competition’
10+ min |
September 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
USE THE RIGHT KNOT
Unlike our sailing cousins, as a motorboater we don’t need to know dozens of different knots. However, there are four essential knots that you really do need to know how to tie and when to use: a bowline, a clove hitch, a round turn and two half hitches, and a sheet bend.
3 min |
September 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
CRUISE IN COMPANY
The first post-lockdown cruise proves to be one of the most rewarding Richard Hall has experienced
2 min |
September 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
LONE SURVIVOR
Dorian is one of the few surviving boats to have served in both world wars, now after a decade-long renovation she’s ready to serve again as a comfortable family motor yacht
9 min |
August 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
NO ORDINARY DELIVERY!
A straightforward Mediterranean delivery turned into an epic cruise from Tunisia to Scotland as the crew battled the elements and the lockdown to get her home
10+ min |
August 2020
Motor Boat & Yachting
LOST IN FRANCE
In the first part of a new series on the waterways of France, Don and Marjorie Walker set their sights on the Canal du Rhone au Rhin following its spectacular route through the Jura to the Swiss/German border
8 min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
TECHNICAL FURLING MAINSAILS
Some sailors swear by furling mainsail systems, others swear at them. Graham Snook looks at ways to keep your furling mainsail in check.
10+ min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
The art of solo cruising
Toby Heppell looks at the art of sailing alone and considers what constitutes good seamanship when it’s only you on board
10+ min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
‘I was jammed. Without my phone I'd be dead'
Martin Blount was fortunate to have survived getting stuck head-first inside his cockpit locker while working alone on his boat
4 min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
Sailing across Sweden
Mark Blackburn recalls happy memories of his final cruise with his father David along the Göta Canal
4 min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
MERVYN WHEATLEY ONE LAST ADVENTURE
Toby Heppell speaks to Mervyn Wheatley as he looks ahead to his sixth OSTAR, now re-scheduled to take place in 2021, and ponders the changes in sailing through his decades-long career
9 min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
ADVENTURE ISLAND ODYSSEY
Erin Carey and her young family cruise the Leeward Islands and discover the region’s distinct cultures and topography
6 min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
GLENCOE, SCOTLAND
Brian Black discovers history, hill walking and fine dining in this sheltered Highland anchorage
2 min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
HOME WATERS RETURN TO GUERNSEY
Solo sailor John Willis battles back injury, seasickness and engine problems as he sails the 330 miles from southern Ireland to St Peter Port
7 min |
August 2020
Yachting Monthly
A WEEK AFLOAT BRITTANY
The Gulf of Morbihan provides Nick Chavasse with delights aplenty, including quaint anchorages and medieval towns ripe for exploring
7 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
SAVING ADLARD COLES' YACHT
Cohoe IV has been in the Osborn family for more than 30 years, but she was commissioned by none other than Adlard Coles
8 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
BOSUN'S BAG
PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER
5 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
PARISIAN POWERBOAT PIONEER
Founded in 1905, Despujols was one of the rst great names of international powerboating. Its nal boats built in the 1960s mark the end of the golden age of varnished wooden runabouts and artisanal yards
7 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
TOM CUNLIFFE - THAT SINKING FEELING
Experience may trump theorising, but who thought plugging cracked seams with soap was a good idea?
6 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
ON THE WINDS OF THE WAR
General Patton’s plan to sail When and If around the world was never realised – current owner Seth Salzmann intends to full the boat’s destiny
9 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
SETH SALZMANN -Thinking big
After a lifetime love affair with schooners, Seth makes manoeuvring his 141-footer look easy
4 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
PAINT Finishing TOUCH
We asked Thames boatbuilder Colin Henwood, who teaches finishing to students at the Boat Building Academy, to give us a crash course in paint and varnish. In this second part, he tackles the subject of a perfect traditional gloss paint finish
8 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
GROWN GRAB RAILS
In the second of our ‘lockdown projects’ series, we make good use of a wooden windfall
3 min |
August 2020
Classic Boat
10OF THE BEST SAILING DINGHIES
In years gone by, you’d have had a 12 or 14ft clinker-built, lug-rigged dinghy with a pair of oars, but there is now a plethora of boats to buy, or build from kit or plan
9 min |
August 2020
Practical Boat Owner
Unseasonality
You can’t rely on the weather in Shetland
3 min |
August 2020
Practical Boat Owner
If it ain't broke, don't break it
Getting stuck into lockdown inventions
3 min |
August 2020
Practical Boat Owner
New generation electronics
A few years ago I felt there was a risk that marine electronics manufacturers would find it impossible to compete in a changing marketplace.
2 min |