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Practical Boat Owner

Mar 01 2021
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.

Practical Boat Owner

Reaching out in lockdown

Keep your VAT details on board • News and current affairs from the world of boating

Biggest names unlikely to be at Düsseldorf

Green light for world’s largest offshore wind farm

Atlantic success for Natasha Lambert

Warning to secure retractable keels

Lovelorn Irish Sea jet-skier jailed

Worldwide antifouling project needs your help

Electric outboard wins DAME award

Marine workers who didn’t get COVID financial support are urged to act

Supporting young sailors

News correction

DIARY DATES

Southampton Boat Show dates

SOUTH COAST AND CHANNEL ISLANDS

WEST COAST, WALES AND IRELAND

SCOTLAND

EAST COAST AND SOUTH-EAST

Next month

Letters • Readers share their thoughts and opinions

The gospel… • Anyone can find themselves out of their depth

Reach for the pie • A new year: how to get fighting fit for sailing

Low-tide checks • Spring tides offer the chance to check out what lies beneath the usual low water mark

How to repair a sail • Knowing how to patch up a sail can get you home safely, extend your cruise and save you money. Rob Kemp of Kemp Sails talks Rubicon 3’s Rachael Sprot through sail repair essentials

For the simple pleasure of sailing • Looking for performance, elegance and impeccable manners from a weekender? Then the Rustler 33 is your sort of boat, says David Harding

Brilliant French designs • Rupert Holmes describes trend-setting French yacht designs, some well known, some not so obvious – but all great second-hand buys

Muscadet

Wauquiez Centurion 32

Reve d’Antilles

Amel Sharki

Archambault Coco

Beneteau First 345

Jeanneau Sun Odyssey/Sun Fast 37

Beneteau First 210/211/21.7/20

Bongo 960

Weather forecast models and apps • Rupert Holmes unpicks the tech behind the data that underpins all weather apps and highlights his favourite software

Becoming a boat owner • Scott Opie buys a £1,300 trailer-sailer and discovers the ups and downs of sailing

Short-handed harbour manoeuvres • Øyvind Bordal has some tips for single-and double-handers

The long port tack to Antigua • Hermione Pattison’s family endures a tough passage when they leave the US on a tumultuous 1,600-mile beat to windward

New Gear • Rupert Holmes explains electric bilge pump suitability

A week on the Thames • Bill Howlett recalls a blissful holiday filled with gymnastics, locks and a very curious cow

Restorations great and small • What does it take to bring a piece of maritime history back to life? Wilf Lower looks at the successes, failures and the lessons learned

What happens in other countries?

Install an elegant new chart table • Roger Hughes gets creative with a gem from a Florida antiques store

Installing an auxiliary engine • Will Renilson thinks long and hard to consider all the alternative engine options before deciding a 4-stroke outboard might be best

Asking the Experts

Holding course • David Berry modifies the wheel of his inland waterways cruiser

Beware the thunder gods in Greece • Geoff Kimblin wisely steers clear of a Mediterranean ‘mini hurricane’ during a charter, but gets caught out by severe thunderstorms instead

COVID PREVENTION...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 92 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Mar 01 2021

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: January 21, 2021

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English

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.

Practical Boat Owner

Reaching out in lockdown

Keep your VAT details on board • News and current affairs from the world of boating

Biggest names unlikely to be at Düsseldorf

Green light for world’s largest offshore wind farm

Atlantic success for Natasha Lambert

Warning to secure retractable keels

Lovelorn Irish Sea jet-skier jailed

Worldwide antifouling project needs your help

Electric outboard wins DAME award

Marine workers who didn’t get COVID financial support are urged to act

Supporting young sailors

News correction

DIARY DATES

Southampton Boat Show dates

SOUTH COAST AND CHANNEL ISLANDS

WEST COAST, WALES AND IRELAND

SCOTLAND

EAST COAST AND SOUTH-EAST

Next month

Letters • Readers share their thoughts and opinions

The gospel… • Anyone can find themselves out of their depth

Reach for the pie • A new year: how to get fighting fit for sailing

Low-tide checks • Spring tides offer the chance to check out what lies beneath the usual low water mark

How to repair a sail • Knowing how to patch up a sail can get you home safely, extend your cruise and save you money. Rob Kemp of Kemp Sails talks Rubicon 3’s Rachael Sprot through sail repair essentials

For the simple pleasure of sailing • Looking for performance, elegance and impeccable manners from a weekender? Then the Rustler 33 is your sort of boat, says David Harding

Brilliant French designs • Rupert Holmes describes trend-setting French yacht designs, some well known, some not so obvious – but all great second-hand buys

Muscadet

Wauquiez Centurion 32

Reve d’Antilles

Amel Sharki

Archambault Coco

Beneteau First 345

Jeanneau Sun Odyssey/Sun Fast 37

Beneteau First 210/211/21.7/20

Bongo 960

Weather forecast models and apps • Rupert Holmes unpicks the tech behind the data that underpins all weather apps and highlights his favourite software

Becoming a boat owner • Scott Opie buys a £1,300 trailer-sailer and discovers the ups and downs of sailing

Short-handed harbour manoeuvres • Øyvind Bordal has some tips for single-and double-handers

The long port tack to Antigua • Hermione Pattison’s family endures a tough passage when they leave the US on a tumultuous 1,600-mile beat to windward

New Gear • Rupert Holmes explains electric bilge pump suitability

A week on the Thames • Bill Howlett recalls a blissful holiday filled with gymnastics, locks and a very curious cow

Restorations great and small • What does it take to bring a piece of maritime history back to life? Wilf Lower looks at the successes, failures and the lessons learned

What happens in other countries?

Install an elegant new chart table • Roger Hughes gets creative with a gem from a Florida antiques store

Installing an auxiliary engine • Will Renilson thinks long and hard to consider all the alternative engine options before deciding a 4-stroke outboard might be best

Asking the Experts

Holding course • David Berry modifies the wheel of his inland waterways cruiser

Beware the thunder gods in Greece • Geoff Kimblin wisely steers clear of a Mediterranean ‘mini hurricane’ during a charter, but gets caught out by severe thunderstorms instead

COVID PREVENTION...


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