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
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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
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