Practical Boat Owner
How to cross Biscay
Crossing Biscay is a rite of passage for many sailors: Rachael Sprot has expert advice on how to handle the 'Golfe de Gascogne'
10 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Bilge pump mystery
Zoran Glozinic buys a suspiciously low priced bilge pump with a design flaw... but it proves just the job for his project boat
5 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Regattas again!
Camaraderie, competition, mussel float dodging and home-made blueberry muffins
3 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Understanding electrics: switches and relays
Pat Manley and Oliver Ballam demystify boat electrics, starting with switches and relays
3 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Learning how to restore old boats
Inspired by a stunning homebuilt yacht, Ali Wood visits the Boat Building Academy to learn how any of us can become boatbuilders
10+ min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
From Canada to the UK in a microyacht
Being 6ft tall, Andrew Bedwell cannot straighten his legs in his 'just over a metre long' microyacht Big C, yet he is about to sail the boat solo across the Atlantic for 90 days, eating cold squares of dehydrated beef.
1 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
DIY £200 chartplotter
John Calton builds his own 10in touchscreen chartplotter with GPS and AIS for a fraction of the cost of an off-the-shelf system
8 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Crossing Wide Bay bar
crossing John Tylor recalls a treacherous sideways, and while asleep-on the tropical Queensland coast with his good friend Don
6 min |
Summer 2023
Yachting World
America's Cup Saudi controversy
America’s Cup organisers have announced that the second preliminary regatta for the 37th America’s Cup cycle will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 30 November–3 December 2023
2 min |
July 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Heroes' welcome for retro race history makers
Kirsten Neuschäfer has a solo, round the world yacht race after winning the 2022 Golden Globe Race (GGR).
1 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Anchoring charges and the law
Falmouth Harbour Commissioners has defended charging £15 a night to a boat owner who complained about \"being made to pay to anchor\", despite having no intention of using facilities ashore.
2 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Tideway 10 GUNTER OR LUGGER?
The trailerable TW10 has the benefits of her sister vessel, the Tideway 12, but is lighter and easier to launch and recover by hand
4 min |
Summer 2023
Yachting World
IT TAKES TWO
THE DOUBLE-HANDED GLOBE 40 TEAMS POWERED AROUND THE WORLD OVER EIGHT LEGS IN JUST NINE MONTHS. RUPERT HOLMES DISCOVERS WHAT CRUISERS CAN LEARN FROM THEIR TOUGH CIRCUMNAVIGATION
10+ min |
July 2023
Yachting World
LONE STAR
AS WINNER OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE RACE, KIRSTEN NEUSCHÄFER IS THE FIRST WOMAN TO WIN A SOLO AROUND THE WORLD RACE. HELEN FRETTER FINDS OUT WHAT DRIVES HER
10 min |
July 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Essential checks for chainplates
As long as our chainplates aren't leaking, few of us give them a second thought. But should we be checking more closely? Surveyor Ben Sutcliffe-Davies explains what to look out for
6 min |
Summer 2023
Yachting World
ATLANTIC CON AUTO
OVER 250 TRANSATLANTIC SKIPPERS FROM THE MOST RECENT ARC FLEET REPORT BACK ON THE EFFICACY AND RELIABILITY OF THEIR SELF-STEERING AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY EQUIPMENT
8 min |
July 2023
Practical Boat Owner
Modern classic, swollen head
The many perfumes of Memory Lane
3 min |
Summer 2023
Practical Boat Owner
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE - Cruising Europe
Sailing to the EU this summer? The Cruising Association shares its advice on what you need to know for a stress-free cruise
10+ min |
Summer 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
INVERKIP TO OBAN GREAT SCOT
Kelston and Jackie Tobin’s leisurely circum-navigtion of the UK enters its third season as they cruise north from Inverkip to Oban via the Crinan Canal and the occasional whisky distillery!
9 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
HERE COMES THE SUN
Songwriter, presenter and serial boat owner Richard Stilgoe’s latest purchase is a solar-powered motor launch that is red and black and green all over
6 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
X POWER 33
Behind the wheel of X Yachts’ first ever outboard-powered sportsboat
6 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
DE ΑΝΤΟΝΙΟ D50 COUPE
Can De Antonio’s first coupé model make an award-winning formula even more attractive? Alex Smith heads to Malaga to find out
7 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
PEARL 72
If you want something that feels different, inside and out, this is a boat you need to see
7 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
HOW TO RECOVER A BOAT ON A TRAILER
Last month we explained how to launch a boat from a road trailer, this month we are looking at how to recover it back onto the trailer.
3 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
MONTENEGRO - AEGEAN ADVENTURE
MBY regulars Thomas and Jutta Kittel continue their annual Mediterranean cruise – this time heading towards Albania and Greece from Montenegro
10 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
ZERO-EMISSIONS SUPERCAT
A 90ft superyacht that uses no fossil fuel at all sounds too good to be true but that’s exactly what Alva Yachts Ocean has already started building
3 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
NEW HOUSE, NEW BOAT
Gilbert Park trades in his much-loved Nimbus for a boat he can park next to his house
4 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
THE WORLD'S COOLEST BOATS - FAIRLINE TARGA 33
COOL RATING THE ORIGINAL TARGA OOZES '80s COOL
2 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BUSTED FLUSH
Can Phil Sampson sort his toilet troubles or will they finally drive him potty?
3 min |
July 2023
Motor Boat & Yachting UK
BOAT CUISINE
It’s all change for diners in Chichester Marina and, as Phil Sampson discovers, it promises to be very much a change for the better
2 min |