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

Waiting for the tide with the editor • To receive the editor’s monthly email newsletter, go to our website: www.pbo.co.uk

The magic of discovering sailing • News and current affairs from the world of boating

Sir Robin’s missing compass mystery solved

More boat owners give up moorings

Mast trim for explosive-filled wreck

Borrow-a-lifejacket

Young sailor own-boat opportunity

Golden Globe Race contenders

Estrallita’s fundraising voyage

Turner Twins’ Blue Pole Project

Dover Marina closed to visiting yachts

Sold! One cocaine-smuggling yacht

Young winners’ sail training voyage

Dee Caffari’s mental wellness tips

DIARY DATES

Regional News • News from your cruising area

Falmouth Classics

Letters • Readers share their thoughts and opinions

An amusing question for friends

Sales of boats are buoyant • It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but choosing to part with a boat is still hard to do

Testing times • Getting to grips with a new engine, anchor, staysail, autopilot and puncture repair kit

Fun with ferries • Ferries are fun – and living on an archipelago means there are plenty of them

Taking the lead: best 30ft French yachts • Few would dispute that the French production yacht builders have left British builders floundering in their wake, writes Peter Poland

Freeman 22 Mk2 • A comfortable little motor cruiser with an interesting engine

RS Pulse 63 Electric RIB • Jake Frith ponders whether a 23 knot RIB could change the world

Italy to England trailer-sailer tow • Alice Driscoll recalls driving and towing a 10m-long car and trailer combo carrying a J24 keelboat, 1,000 miles home from Lake Garda

Tow by road

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Post-Brexit Channel Hop • The sailing was fantastic, the admin a little onerous and the French Border Patrol visit a surprise – Steve Hodges and Sam McClements share their first post-Brexit Channel hop experience

RYA Advice

Orca encounter left our yacht rudderless • Zoe Barlow shares her experience of losing a rudder when targeted by orcas while on passage from Spain to Morocco

Royal Yachting Association (RYA) guidance

PLBs and personal AIS units • Rupert Holmes looks at the pros and cons of these clip-on lifesaving devices

PERSONAL LOCATOR BEACONS

What is RLS? Fox Morgan explains

ResQLink V FastFind PLBs • Fox Morgan takes a closer look at the PLBs with Return Link Service

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TRIED & TESTED • James Turner, Yachtmaster Ocean and retired instructor, explains plastic sextants and dispels common misconceptions

Books for learning astro navigation

LEWMAR EPSILON anchor tested • Rupert Holmes on the latest marine equipment

Propulsion options • Inboard diesel engines are common for sailing cruisers, but there are other ways to power a boat, as Stu Davies explains

Outboard motor pros and cons

Sailing with outboards

Achieving safe, reliable hot water • Erratic water temperature in your boat’s shower is an annoyance and sometimes a danger. Gilbert Park solves the issue once and for all by fitting a hot water accumulator and thermostatic sensor

Gilbert Park’s Trusty T23

Budget water tank and sink...