Boating_Sailing
Practical Boat Owner
Cut and thrust of sailing
The best ways to call a halt to proceedings
3 min |
November 2021
Practical Boat Owner
Cook's challenge
Scraping the food locker bare at the end of the season requires some culinary creativity
3 min |
November 2021
Practical Boat Owner
Boater's biplane rescue at air show
A powerboater and her family sprang into action when a biplane crashed into Poole Harbour on the south coast, narrowly missing yachts, rocks and a chain ferry.
3 min |
November 2021
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Beachcombing
Searching out landing stages and boat noosts
3 min |
November 2021
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How To Replace Worn Rudder Bushes
Hedley Ritchie shows how he changed the wobbly bushes on his transom-hung rudder to improve his Westerly Konsort’s steering
3 min |
September 2021
Practical Boat Owner
Whale-watching in Quebec
Liveaboards Belinda Chesman and Kit McAllister mix culture with cetaceans as they cruise Canada’s great St Lawrence river
9 min |
September 2021
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Remote paddling
The simplest vessels are so often the best
3 min |
September 2021
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Mind how you go
It’s time to exorcise those mystic influences
3 min |
September 2021
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Inland innovation
Wilf Lower relives a European inland adventure
3 min |
September 2021
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Up a creek with no water to paddle
Mike Humphreys calls on his ingenuity and practical skills to rescue a family marooned on a mud bank by the falling tide
8 min |
September 2021
Practical Boat Owner
Small boats, big cruising
Rupert Holmes describes a selection of very capable small boats for cruising on a budget
10+ min |
September 2021
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God vakt!
Marsali Taylor recalls every detail of a day aboard the tall ship Sørlandet off the coast of Norway
10+ min |
September 2021
Practical Boat Owner
Boat Electrics 101 course review
Nigel Calder and his team of marine electrics experts have hit the mark, says Rupert Holmes
2 min |
September 2021
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Viking adventure
Sam Griffiths and his dad camp out under the stars in a 12ft dinghy to enjoy the delights of an historic German waterway
10+ min |
Summer 2021
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Red herring
Seaspiracy is righteous rather than right
3 min |
Summer 2021
Practical Boat Owner
Restoring Andromeda
Clive Robertson swaps a London media career for four years in a boatyard and restores a wooden gaffer from scratch
10+ min |
Summer 2021
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Steam-bending a new toe rail
Greg Manning shows you how to laminate and steam a plank so that it can be to be bent across its width
3 min |
Summer 2021
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The right look
Peter Poland tests the second-hand Swedish production powerboat that just looks ‘right’ to so many ex-sailors
8 min |
Summer 2021
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Fleeing a volcanic eruption
Kia Koropp and family up-anchor and grab their face masks when a cloud of black ash descends on the Grenadines
6 min |
Summer 2021
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Make or break situation
How you can get snookered when sailing
3 min |
Summer 2021
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Old gaffer to Ushant
Max Liberson suffers concussion, ghostly apparitions and crew desertion on a tiring voyage to France
10 min |
Summer 2021
Practical Boat Owner
Fitting a new water tank gauge
Measuring your boat’s water capacity is essential for any cruiser, yet is surprisingly hard to get right, discovers Roger Hughes
8 min |
Summer 2021
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Fast track to Yachtmaster
When Covid scuppers Josh Lindley’s gap year, he takes on a demanding 5-month sailing course instead to qualify as a skipper
5 min |
Summer 2021
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Weather forecast models and apps
Rupert Holmes unpicks the tech behind the data that underpins all weather apps and highlights his favourite software
10 min |
March 2021
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Short-handed harbour manoeuvres
Øyvind Bordal has some tips for single- and double-handers
4 min |
March 2021
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Reach for the pie
A new year: how to get fighting fit for sailing
3 min |
March 2021
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The long port tack to Antigua
Hermione Pattison’s family endures a tough passage when they leave the US on a tumultuous 1,600-mile beat to windward
9 min |
March 2021
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Becoming a boat owner
Scott Opie buys a £1,300 trailer-sailer and discovers the ups and downs of sailing
9 min |
March 2021
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The gospel...
Anyone can find themselves out of their depth
3 min |
March 2021
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Shipwrecked in a 12ft keelboat
Despite a sinking off Portugal, French sailor Yann Quenet hasn’t been put off his microyacht circumnavigation dreams. John Jameson reports
7 min |