Motor Boat & Yachting UK
NEW SPIRIT MOTOR YACHTS
THE 10 KEY BOATING STORIES YOU NEED TO READ
2 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
AQUAHOLIC
Nick Burnham: I'm a huge fan of Fairline. I sold, sea trialled and surveyed dozens of them as a yacht broker between 1989 and 2009.
2 min |
August 2025
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BOAT CUISINE
Phil Sampson strikes gold in Poole Harbour
2 min |
August 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
Crew changes are the hardest part of cruising
Trying to retrieve the kids in Camaret meant missing several tides and the only fine day
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
Sailing without any hands [literally]
To my horror the tar-sided old barge clonked into yacht after yacht
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
OWNERS' UPGRADE
‘I HAD MY OLD SWING KEEL FULLY REFURBISHED ...'
6 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
PREPARING YOUR YACHT FOR SALE
When it comes to selling a yacht, the secret to a swift and successful sale often lies in the smallest of details, writes Susannah Hart
4 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE HerrING HERITAGE
A resurgence of interest in lug-rigged sailing vessels showcases the importance of Scotland's former booming herring industry
6 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
A RAID UP THE ESTUARY
The fourth instalment of Paul Weston's Napoleonic series of novels finds Lieutenant Snowden and the Oleander off the coast of Brittany. He has been tasked with 'duties not normally required of a sea-officer' and is thus even more free than usual to use his initiative and seize his chances.
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
The first official account of the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht
The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released the first official account of the sudden tragic sinking of the 56m Bayesian superyacht in August 2024, in which seven people died, including the yacht's owner Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
GBR para-athlete in record-breaking around Britain challenge
GBR para-athlete, Jazz Turner, departed from Brighton Marina in early June in an attempt to break three records as the first disabled person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Britain.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
Ella casts off solo around the Arctic
Yachtswoman Ella Hibbert has cast off from Haslar Marina, Gosport, on an expedition to become the first person to sail solo, non-stop around the Arctic, a 10,000-mile journey that will see her transit both the Northwest and the Northeast Passages.
2 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
HALLBERG-RASSY 372
Hallberg-Rassy's most recent 37-footer flexes her muscle, but is she still an easy and solid boat to sail short-handed? Nic Compton went to find out
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
SAILING THE SHIPPING FORECAST
Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them
8 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
FIRST TEST FAURBY 370
This remarkable Danish boat is unlike almost any other 37-footer you're likely to sail. Theo Stocker explains why
10 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
REPLACING ANODES
Simple anode maintenance will prevent costly corrosion damage to your boat...
2 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
GOING WIRELESS FOR EASIER CRUISING
Unstayed rigs make so much more sense than stayed rigs, reckons Nic Charman, so why are they still the exception?
6 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
To Bonnie Scotland
Yes - we left! The Kemp family cast off from Ipswich, sailed around the South Coast, touched Ireland and have now reached the Scottish west coast, though not without drama, as Amy explains...
3 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
UK Sailing Academy appoints CEO
The UK Sailing Academy (UKSA), a Cowes-based charity dedicated to equipping young people for fulfilling careers in maritime industries, has appointed Catherine Dixon as its new Chief Executive Officer.
1 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
THE ELLEN MACARTHUR CANCER TRUST
If you would like to recommend a marine charity doing great work (including care for the environment) contact julia@golden-duck.co.uk
2 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
ADVENTURE AROUND BRITAIN - CAPE WRATIL AND BEYOND
Nick Leather sails his Westerly Storm, Musketeer, from The Inner Hebrides to the South Coast – the final stages of a tremendous circumnavigation of the British Isles
8 min |
Summer 2025
Yachting Monthly UK
How to communicate at sea
What communications equipment do you really need to stay safe and keep in touch? Alan Denham explores options for every budget and cruising ambition
10+ 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
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
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
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
Skin fittings and seacocks explained
Surveyor Nick Vass examines different skin fittings and seacocks on the market and shares advice on maintenance
10 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
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
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 |