Practical Boat Owner

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

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News • News and current affairs from the world of boating

Round the Island’s ‘90 in 90’ call

New process to allow entry to UK cruisers at any French port

NI red diesel ban reprieve

RYA’s ICC reinstated in Spain

Fair winds to PBO friend John Goode

Armchair powerboat adventure

Seadogz report warning

Visas and Schengen interaction

Conviction for trading illegal teak

Why are statues wearing lifejackets?

DIARY DATES

Regional News • News from your cruising area

Letters • Readers share their thoughts and opinions

Make or break situation • How you can get snookered when sailing

Red herring • Seaspiracy is righteous rather than right

‘Simmer dims’ • Shetland’s long, light evenings are upon us…

Made in Germany • Rupert Holmes looks at top-notch German yachts of the past 40 years

The right look • Peter Poland tests the second-hand Swedish production powerboat that just looks ‘right’ to so many ex-sailors

Identifying seabirds • The UK coast has one of the richest breeding grounds in Europe, and there’s no better place to spot birds than from the cockpit of your boat, says Genevieve Leaper

Seabird families breeding in the UK

Fleeing a volcanic eruption • Kia Koropp and family up-anchor and grab their face masks when a cloud of black ash descends on the Grenadines

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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

New generation? • Can electric inboard engines fully replace marine diesels for cruising boats? It’s complicated, as Jake Kavanagh reports

Which hybrid?

Motor considerations

New Gear • Rupert Holmes gets to grips with clutch systems

Engine health check • Fixing diesels is not so different to treating patients, says Gilbert Park

Safety when examining engines

Steam-bending a new toe rail • Greg Manning shows you how to laminate and steam a plank so that it can be to be bent across its width

Restoring Andromeda • Clive Robertson swaps a London media career for four years in a boatyard and restores a wooden gaffer from scratch

Taking up

DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE

Fitting a new water tank gauge • Measuring your boat’s water capacity is essential for any cruiser, yet is surprisingly hard to get right, discovers Roger Hughes

Old gaffer to Ushant • Max Liberson suffers concussion, ghostly apparitions and crew desertion on a tiring voyage to France

Fast track to Yachtmaster • When Covid scuppers Josh Lindley’s gap year, he takes on a demanding 5-month sailing course instead to qualify as a skipper

FEED YOUR MIND

Practical projects • Great ideas and tips from PBO readers

DIY double glazing beats condensation • Simon James stops windows from dripping

Simpler raw water pump seal removal • Peter Crouch gets creative with a bradawl

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Up the creek without an engine • Willem Bijl...