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 |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
NEW GEAR
Dennis O’Neill rounds up the latest marine innovations, including developments in women’s sailing jackets
6 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
MARIE TABARLY HONOURING HER FATHER
Marie Tabarly took line honours in the Ocean Globe Race, surpassing her father’s record while racing aboard his famous 73ft ketch Pen Duick VI
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HEATHER THOMAS SMASHING RECORDS
In leading her all-female crew to victory in the OGR, Heather Thomas has broken records and taken women's sailing into the stratosphere
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
FIRST TEST GRAND SOLEIL 42LC
Performance pedigree and Italian panache certainly make for stylish boats, but how do they translate into a serious cruising boat? Theo Stocker tests the baby of the range
10 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
MAIDEN MAKES HISTORY AGAIN
Being the first all-female crew to win a round-the-world race is seismic in itself, but the diverse nationalities of the crew are just as significant for the future of sailing
10+ min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
'WE GOT BATTERED BY A STORM THAT WASN'T FORECAST
When David and Sarah Smith decided to take on their first proper ocean passage, they didn’t anticipate storm Oscar, but survived unscathed and relished the experience
7 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
Don't let Thames sewage kill off this lovely boat
Samuel Pepys mentions oysters in his diaries 68 times, but that was when they were as common as winkles along the banks of the Thames and when they were a source of cheap protein for the masses.
3 min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
TECHNICAL GOLDEN OLDIES
Ken Endean looks back on the boats he has owned over 50 years and explains why the hull lines of older yachts continue to offer first-class handling
10+ min |
July 2024
Yachting Monthly UK
HOME WATERS CONQUERING THE SOUTH COAST
Intrepid novice skipper Monty Halls takes his family sailing along the south coast of Devon and Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and back
7 min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Weather or not to go sailing
Ignore the apps: it's much safer to swear by the weather wisdom of a local oracle
3 min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
A sailor's guide to UK sharks and fish
Genevieve Leaper looks at some of the shark species around the British and Irish coasts and how to spot these fish from your boat
10+ min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
Shoestring voyage of adventure
Richard King and Serafin Colmenares Jr. look back at the remarkable Pacific voyage of Florentino Das in his 24ft home-built boat
5 min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
A revolution in fabrics
Marine fabrics are using natural fibres, less harmful chemicals and longer-lasting colours. Jake Kavanagh looks at the cut of the cloth
4 min |
July 2024
Practical Boat Owner
110 A WAYS TO CUT COSTS
From DIY to learning new skills, mooring, sails and rigging, Ali Wood has some top tips on keeping afloat as affordably as possible
10+ min |