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 |
Summer 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Multihull sail work
Brush up on multihull sailing skills before heading off on charter with Gavin Le Sueur's guide to spinnaker handling, tacking and gybing
4 min |
Summer 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
DELPHIA 10 SEDAN
If you're happy to trade speed for serenity, Delphia has something that's likely to appeal
7 min |
July 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PRESTIGE F4
Behind the wheel of a 50ft flybridge cruiser that dares to be different
7 min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
30 WAYS TO GET AFLOAT
From tall ships to small dinghies, you needn't own a boat to sail. Ali Wood looks at the options, and how skippers can also find crew
10+ min |
Summer 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
LOFOTEN OR BUST PART I
Swedish MBY reader Per Harrtoft fulfills a lifelong dream with a high-speed dash to the remote but beautiful Lofoten islands in the far north of Norway
10+ min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Seaworthy dinghies for less than £500
For low cost traditionally-styled GRP trailer-sailers, consider the Foreland and the Otter available at bargain basement prices
5 min |
Summer 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Playing with coloured sails
Maintaining an hourglass-shaped balloon and ratcheting up the log numbers
3 min |
Summer 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Five top causes of engine failure and how to prevent them
Jake Kavanagh talks to Sea Start marine engineer Nick Eales about how to avoid the five major causes of an engine breakdown at sea
10+ min |
Summer 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Sail the Atlantic with strangers
Would you sail across the Atlantic with someone you've just met? Ali Wood meets the cruising crews who've done just that
10 min |
Summer 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
RIVA GOES ELECTRIC
Riva made its name building beautiful mahogany sportboats powered by big petrol engines, but the new El-Iseo is powered by an electric motor.
4 min |
July 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BUYING A USED...FAIRLINE PHANTOM 42
Fairline first introduced its Phantom range half a century ago with the Phantom 32.
5 min |
July 2024
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
WEST COUNTRY GOURMET CRUISE
The promise of a gastronomic tour of the South West coast persuades Gilbert Park's reluctant sailor wife to join him on a summer cruise with a difference
7 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
How to rig preventers and boom brakes
Rigging a preventer or using a boom brake is just good seamanship when sailing downwind, but doing so badly is asking for trouble, says Rachael Sprot
10+ min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
I finally found the magic of the sea
I won’t be in theatres with a notebook as much as usual this month – time for some wider, wetter horizons – but may be musing, as I often do, on how rare it is for theatre to express a convincing reality about the oceans and the trade or pursuit of seafaring.
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
TECHNICAL INSTALLING A NEW ENGINE
When a mysterious loss of coolant jeopardised his sailing, Andy Du Port knew the time had tome to replace his yacht’s:veteran Volvo Penta
7 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HOW IT WORKS MARKING
Many cruising yacht skippers mark very little on board their boats.
1 min |