How To Build Yourself A Mini Tugboat For Fun

Determined to build a small, fun boat for his young grandchildren, Ian Royston made one in the style of a cheeky tugboat

How To Get Your Boat Organised

Are you always misplacing tools and spares? Roger Hughes has the answer

Should You Insure A Project Boat?

Insurance expert Steve Risk has some useful advice for boat owners

A winter project

Now’s a great time to start a refurbishment

It's good to talk

Wilf Lower makes a dodgy connection

Going loopy – making a continuous splice

Roger Hughes declutters the cockpit by splicing his furling lines end-to-end into a continuous loop

The HR evolution

Hallberg-Rassy’s reputation for building quality bluewater cruisers evolved from its early 31-38ft models. Peter Poland reports

Summer in the Med

Ned Coakley enjoys affogatos, smart marinas and stunning cliff-edge villages on a Mediterranean cruise from France to Italy and back

When Britannia waives the rules

Profiting from the world while losing its soul

‘I am very much alive!'

A wartime act of kindness is recalled by a survivor of St Helier Yacht Club’s ‘miracle of St Malo’ evacuation, writes Philip Jeune

That sinking feeling...

Brian Johnson became quickly and intimately acquainted with his engine’s silencer when it threatened to sink his Westerly Pageant

Why more cruisers should go wireless

Nick Charman makes the case for all cruising yachts to change tack

Parker 660 Pilothouse

Peter Poland test drives the Parker 660 Pilothouse

Sailing The Martello Coast of Corsica

Owen Moorhouse recalls wonderful cruising and friendships made in Corsica in the 1980s

Sailing solo to the Isles of Scilly

In the summer of 2020 Katie McCabe (aged 13 at the time) sailed her newly restored classic yacht solo to the Isles of Scilly

North Sea dash

With Covid and Brexit bureaucracy melting away, Saskia Groen-in’t-Woud enjoyed her first North Sea crossing – despite rough return weather

Cut and thrust of sailing

The best ways to call a halt to proceedings

Cook's challenge

Scraping the food locker bare at the end of the season requires some culinary creativity

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.

Beachcombing

Searching out landing stages and boat noosts

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

Whale-watching in Quebec

Liveaboards Belinda Chesman and Kit McAllister mix culture with cetaceans as they cruise Canada’s great St Lawrence river

Remote paddling

The simplest vessels are so often the best

Mind how you go

It’s time to exorcise those mystic influences

Inland innovation

Wilf Lower relives a European inland adventure

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

Small boats, big cruising

Rupert Holmes describes a selection of very capable small boats for cruising on a budget

God vakt!

Marsali Taylor recalls every detail of a day aboard the tall ship Sørlandet off the coast of Norway

Boat Electrics 101 course review

Nigel Calder and his team of marine electrics experts have hit the mark, says Rupert Holmes

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