From steering to rigging (and all the things we forget!) – the essential checks for the prepared skipper; Displacement theory and how it affects the…
Practical Boat Owner
November 2025 issue – out 25 September
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Pre-winter tip
Family of drowned pensioner appeal for more pontoon ladders
Heart attack may have caused hm to fall into marina
Ainslie nominated again for World Sailor of the Year
Two Britons also up for female prize
Marina demonstration planned
Objections to £15million, 550-berth marina
Sailing club kicked off its lake
Given two weeks notice
Forth Coastguard station shuts today
First of nine stations to close
New Poole berths likely to be on the quay
Extension preferred to Hamworthy marina
Paralympians waiting for medal decision
Sailors still do not know if they have a bronze
Police use eBay to catch thieves
Tried to sell stolen dinghy and outboard online
Stop your fenders popping out
onshore wind? In a raft?
Fishing village covered with foam
Wind whips up the sea
RNLI launches new lifeboat
Shannon class can go 25 knots
Drunken ferry ‘pirate’ jailed
Steals ferry after two-day bender
Boat fridges – keeping them organised
They're often quite deep
Titanic captain originally failed his navigation test
More than 250,000 seamanship certificates released for the first time
Summer lifeboat launches drop in 2012
Two per cent fall attributed to poor weather
Sailor swept overboard by a wave
But then swept back on his yacht by another
Video: PBO editor talks Green Awards and the Southampton Boat Show
Sarah Norbury chats with Boat Show TV
PBO Green Award winners announced
Four organisations triumph