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    Practical Boat Owner

    September 2025 issue of Practical boat Owner

    September 2025 issue – out 1 August

    Skills to make you more confident sailing short-handed; Rudder types and how they affect performance; How to enhance your cockpit; The must-have tools for every…

    August 2025 issue of Practical Boat Owner

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    Everything you need to know about trailer-sailing; How to spray gelcoat; Improvements on the continuous splice; Retrofitting a £1 mast; Tips for avoiding collisions;  Enduring…

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    Distress_Flare

    Boat skipper fined for misuse of flares

    • October 31, 2013

    £3,825 fines and costs for firing expired rocket flares during harbour festivities

    TRECVET Conference_1

    Why can’t professional skippers work without borders in Europe?

    • October 30, 2013

    The final TRECVET conference attempted to answer this question.

    SpiderMite

    Boating advice from the experts

    • October 29, 2013

    Practical Boat Owner's experts answer a reader's question about spider mites

    St Jude's Storm

    Storm rescues for boat owners

    • October 28, 2013

    Three killed and houses, boats and cars damaged by St Jude's Storm

    HaylingIslandTornado

    Warning to boat owners to secure vessels against storm

    • October 27, 2013

    A major Atlantic storm is set to move across the UK over the next 24 hours

    Roland Wilson crash video reconstruction

    £100,000 fine for tanker-crash yachtsman

    • October 25, 2013

    Roland Wilson is found guilty of breaching international maritime law during Cowes Week 2011

    Sir Ben Ainslie with the mayor Cllr Anna Rostand

    Ben Ainslie is made a Freeman of Lymington

    • October 24, 2013

    The five-time Olympic medallist is celebrated by his hometown

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    Suspended sentence for night fisherman without nav lights

    • October 24, 2013

    The boat owner 'repeatedly flouted regulations for commercial gain'

    RolandWilson03

    Yacht v Ship crash trial – penultimate day

    • October 24, 2013

    Yachtsman Roland Wilson defends his crews actions during Cowes Week collision

    Windrose - the yacht on which a Dutchman tragically died after falling from the mast. Picture- Chris Hall

    Mast-fall death investigation nearing completion

    • October 23, 2013

    Border Force found more than £12million-worth of drugs on the yacht

    RolandWilson03

    Yacht v Ship crash trial continues

    • October 23, 2013

    Yachtsman Roland Wilson is accused of flouting maritime law during Cowes Week collision

    ThamesTrafalgarRace

    Yacht race commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar

    • October 22, 2013

    Twenty-seven boats took part in the first ever Thames Trafalgar Race

    Flare

    Call to shake-up distress flare rules

    • October 22, 2013

    Have pyrotechnic flares as a distress alert had their day?

    Jack Bouttell with Préparateur Antoine

    Apprenticeship scheme for budding British shore crew

    • October 22, 2013

    Artemis Offshore Academy is launching its first ‘préparateur’ apprenticeship programme

    HaylingIslandTornado

    Mini-tornado causes £100k damage at sailing club

    • October 21, 2013

    Mengeham Rythe Sailing Club members rallied together to clear up

    Scotland Boat Show 2013

    Scotland’s Boat Show attracts record numbers

    • October 21, 2013

    The Kip Marina event is hailed a great success

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    Thames Trafalgar Race will set sail in London

    • October 18, 2013

    The inaugural event aims to mark the Battle of Trafalgar

    The demolition of a World War Two Depth Charge from the Ammo Wreck off St Peter Port harbour 17-10-13 Pic by Tony Rive (8).jpg

    Navy divers detonate WW2 depth charge

    • October 18, 2013

    The second explosive device found in Guernsey waters in the last three months

    The suspected pirate skiff courtesy of the EU Naval Force Media and Public Information Office

    Naval Forces renew piracy warning to yachts

    • October 17, 2013

    The High Risk Area is the Southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Western Indian Ocean

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    Amphicar car market buoyant

    • October 16, 2013

    Part boat, part car - Amphicars from the 1960s are highly sought after

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