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
Banish damp on board your boat! The benefits of solar, hydro and wind..and what can go wrong; 6 legendary boats which shaped design, 12,000 mile…
Dave Selby podcast: ‘Mad About The Boat’
September 2012: Marlin runs rings around a gaffer
Video: Yarmouth 22 on test
A long-keeler with modern fractional rig and a blister coachroof
Olympians appear at Cowes Week tomorrow
And Ben Ainslie will sail his Finn down the Thames
Pirate given 12 life sentences over sailors’ killings
'Most senior pirate ever captured'
Silvers for Britain in men and women’s 470
Neither team able to leapfrog Antipodean rivals
Olympic sailing abandoned for the day
Men's 470 medal race rescheduled for tomorrow
Anchoring is allowed in Osborne Bay
RYA: Beach's swimming area does not affect sailors
Morrison and Rhodes miss out on a medal
But Mills and Clark guaranteed at least a silver
Dempsey wins windsurfing silver
And at least a silver for 470 men
Nab Tower ready for a makeover
Maintenance work commissioned
470 men remain in gold medal hunt
Golds for Australia and China
Percy & Simpson and Ainslie move nearer to gold
One race left for Star and Finn classes
Britain’s sailors ignite their Olympic challenges
Race wins for every British boat
Olympic sailing tickets still available
The PBO editor's firsthand report
Britons move up the leaderboards
49er pair surge into medal contention
Cleaning upholstered headlinings
Try this!
Some good, some bad for Britain on day three
Percy and Simpson increase lead at the top
Before you reach for the WD40
Try this!
Mixed second day for British sailors
Percy and Simpson move into lead, but Ainslie drops to third