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Practical Projects
Contaminated fuel problems: keeping your marine diesel clean
Got contaminated fuel problems? Much has been written about the issue, particularly the advice from Marine 16’s Peter Weide piece in the PBO November 2023 issue and Nick Houlding’s piece…
Boat hatch repair: how to stop the leaks
Fed up with water dripping into his boat's galley, Jose Molina decides to get out his tool box and fix the problem
Make your own boat boarding step
A DIY project for the big day! For his wedding photos, Thomas Parker built a smart boarding step for getting safely on and off the pontoon.
How to make your own rigging vice
Zoran Glozinic builds a specialised wire rigging tool
Moving a diesel engine air filter
Stew Proud moves the vulnerable diesel engine air filter on his boat
Repairing an inflatable dinghy: fixing holes
Paul Diamond repairs a dinghy that was chewed by rodents
Making a lifting keel easier to raise
After struggling with a heavy lifting keel, Brian Johnson builds a simple tackle to make light of the problem
How I built a galley box for my boat
Ben Russell adds basic cooking facilities to his motorboat
How to clean tarnished brass
John Tylor brings some cast-off tarnished brass light fittings back to shiny life
How I made a specialist tool to repair my dinghy
Paul Diamond creates a specialised valve removal tool from a socket spanner in order to repair his inflatable tender
How to make a DIY bilge alarm switch
Zoran Gloznic builds a budget bilge alarm switch
How to replace a stern tube on a boat
Bruno Brown isn’t fazed by what seems a daunting task
How to replace a leaking portlight
Roger Hughes digs out his tools and repairs the leaking portlight on his boat
How to make curly cord as a DIY project
Mike Attree makes curly cord to help him fix his broken windlass
Casting a cutless bearing housing
Don Fitzroy Smith turns to the experts when an obsolete fitting can’t be found
How to make your boots non-scratch to save your boat decks
Charles Beddingfield comes up with a way to make his boots non-scratch
How to build a custom boat port
Ben Russell gets busy constructing his own custom boat shed
How to refurbish a scruffy outboard cowling
Rebecca Beck shares how she improved her outboard cowling
How to make a last-minute home-made dinghy spinnaker pole
Ben Lowings cobbles up some pole jaws to make a make-shift dinghy spinnaker pole