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Practical Boat Owner

Summer 2020
Magazine

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Practical Boat Owner is Britain's biggest-selling boating magazine, trusted and respected by all its readers. A source of useful and helpful information for both power and sail boat owners, PBO helps you get the most from your boat acting as a forum for interacting with like-minded individuals.

Waiting for the tide

Practical Boat Owner

Sailors head back to the water as COVID-19 lockdown is eased • News and current affairs from the world of boating

COVID-19 challenges for marine industry

End-of-life boats are ‘not just an owner problem’

Disabled Sailors Association launches round the world voyage

Sailor develops new rescue board

NEW PADDLE CENTRE FOR THE HAMBLE

UPGRADE FOR MERSEYSIDE RESERVOIR

APPEAL FOR SAILING SMACK EXCELSIOR

SPOTLIGHT ON NORTH CARR LIGHTSHIP

Next month

Letters • Readers share their thoughts and opinions

Rules is rules • When it comes to having a regulation for everything, you canÕt beat a bit of yacht racing

Clearly the best • Is traditional varnish the only brightwork option?

The left behind • There’s always something rather melancholy about the once proud boats left ashore

How to check & change anodes • Keeping your anodes in good order prevents serious corrosion damage, says Rubicon 3Õs Bruce Jacobs

Home waters to high latitudes • Rupert Holmes test sails the Nicholson 32, one of the most desirable early glassfibre yachts and still a great second-hand buy

Yachts by the pound • Peter Poland weighs up the pride and joy of owning a steady and substantial motor sailer

Nav equipment and electronics • What’s essential when updating your nav station? Rupert Holmes looks at everything from AIS to radar, sonar and MFDs

Home before lockdown • On the eve of the coronavirus lockdown, Max Liberson completes a lively ten-day delivery of his 1930s gaff cutter to her new home in Wales

Locks, lakes and rapids • Belinda Chesman faces floods, commercial shipping and occasionally unhelpful lockkeepers in a voyage through the St Lawrence Seaway

New Gear • Rupert Holmes looks at how to safely treat fresh water

Fitting a rode counter • An electronic display showing chain and rope deployment means you can anchor without leaving the helm. Gilbert Park reports

Holed below the waterline • Brandy Burridge recalls a frightening hull failure that took ingenuity and a bit of outside assistance to get through

Replacing a cylinder head and servicing injectors • Geoff Higginbottom rebuilds his engine with a new cylinder head while Stu Davies demonstrates a DIY injector service

Fuel injectors: DIY service tips • Stu Davies explains how to test, extract and service diesel injectors

Keel hauled! • Reverend Tom Pyke describes how he recovered and reattached his yacht’s swing keel after it dropped into the gloopy Thames mud

SUBSCRIBE NOW! • 6 issues from only £21.49

Refitting a ‘60s classic for chilly sailing • Planning to cruise in cold climates, Richard Rogers sizes up his Morgan Giles 30 refit task and gets started from the bare bones

Restoring a trailer-sailer in 10 easy steps • This Jaguar 22 was in a sorry state when the owner asked Will Higgs to renovate it. Here’s how he tackled the task

Ask the experts • Got a question? Email pbo@ti-media.com

The fine art of filtering fuel • Stew Proud shows off his Aquastar Ocean Ranger’s fuel filtration set-up

Beer can ball end • Sam Longley gets creative during lockdown

Are you sitting comfortably? • Two PBO readers, two different cockpit perches

Tony Curphey: 4 times round the world • In May last year...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 92 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Summer 2020

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  • Release date: June 11, 2020

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Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Practical Boat Owner is Britain's biggest-selling boating magazine, trusted and respected by all its readers. A source of useful and helpful information for both power and sail boat owners, PBO helps you get the most from your boat acting as a forum for interacting with like-minded individuals.

Waiting for the tide

Practical Boat Owner

Sailors head back to the water as COVID-19 lockdown is eased • News and current affairs from the world of boating

COVID-19 challenges for marine industry

End-of-life boats are ‘not just an owner problem’

Disabled Sailors Association launches round the world voyage

Sailor develops new rescue board

NEW PADDLE CENTRE FOR THE HAMBLE

UPGRADE FOR MERSEYSIDE RESERVOIR

APPEAL FOR SAILING SMACK EXCELSIOR

SPOTLIGHT ON NORTH CARR LIGHTSHIP

Next month

Letters • Readers share their thoughts and opinions

Rules is rules • When it comes to having a regulation for everything, you canÕt beat a bit of yacht racing

Clearly the best • Is traditional varnish the only brightwork option?

The left behind • There’s always something rather melancholy about the once proud boats left ashore

How to check & change anodes • Keeping your anodes in good order prevents serious corrosion damage, says Rubicon 3Õs Bruce Jacobs

Home waters to high latitudes • Rupert Holmes test sails the Nicholson 32, one of the most desirable early glassfibre yachts and still a great second-hand buy

Yachts by the pound • Peter Poland weighs up the pride and joy of owning a steady and substantial motor sailer

Nav equipment and electronics • What’s essential when updating your nav station? Rupert Holmes looks at everything from AIS to radar, sonar and MFDs

Home before lockdown • On the eve of the coronavirus lockdown, Max Liberson completes a lively ten-day delivery of his 1930s gaff cutter to her new home in Wales

Locks, lakes and rapids • Belinda Chesman faces floods, commercial shipping and occasionally unhelpful lockkeepers in a voyage through the St Lawrence Seaway

New Gear • Rupert Holmes looks at how to safely treat fresh water

Fitting a rode counter • An electronic display showing chain and rope deployment means you can anchor without leaving the helm. Gilbert Park reports

Holed below the waterline • Brandy Burridge recalls a frightening hull failure that took ingenuity and a bit of outside assistance to get through

Replacing a cylinder head and servicing injectors • Geoff Higginbottom rebuilds his engine with a new cylinder head while Stu Davies demonstrates a DIY injector service

Fuel injectors: DIY service tips • Stu Davies explains how to test, extract and service diesel injectors

Keel hauled! • Reverend Tom Pyke describes how he recovered and reattached his yacht’s swing keel after it dropped into the gloopy Thames mud

SUBSCRIBE NOW! • 6 issues from only £21.49

Refitting a ‘60s classic for chilly sailing • Planning to cruise in cold climates, Richard Rogers sizes up his Morgan Giles 30 refit task and gets started from the bare bones

Restoring a trailer-sailer in 10 easy steps • This Jaguar 22 was in a sorry state when the owner asked Will Higgs to renovate it. Here’s how he tackled the task

Ask the experts • Got a question? Email pbo@ti-media.com

The fine art of filtering fuel • Stew Proud shows off his Aquastar Ocean Ranger’s fuel filtration set-up

Beer can ball end • Sam Longley gets creative during lockdown

Are you sitting comfortably? • Two PBO readers, two different cockpit perches

Tony Curphey: 4 times round the world • In May last year...


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