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    Video: Outboards on test

    • June 19, 2012

    Read the comparison in PBO's summer issue

    RNLI St Mary's all-weather lifeboat The Whiteheads

    Lifeboat crew and fundraisers honoured

    • June 19, 2012

    Four recognised in Birthday Honours List

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    Olympic support boats handed over

    • June 18, 2012

    Beneteau gives 23 boats to LOCOG

    Bodelwyddan Castle

    North Wales Boat Jumble changes date

    • June 18, 2012

    Moved to August 5

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    Non slip – free!

    • June 18, 2012

    You don't need to splash out on granules

    a tethered MOB dummy

    Video: Tethers on trial

    • June 15, 2012

    How to recover a MOB that's still attached to your boat

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    Shifting a castellated nut

    • June 15, 2012

    Such as on a stern gland

    squirrel

    Squirrel up the mast

    • June 15, 2012

    It must be nuts

    rustler 33

    Video: New Rustler 33 on test

    • June 15, 2012

    A British-built dedicated weekender

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    Yacht survives crashing into harbour wall

    • June 14, 2012

    Ketch broke free of mooring and ended up on beach

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    Lifeboat crew has to be rescued

    • June 11, 2012

    Four-man crew airlifted after helping in Welsh floods

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    Solo skipper rescued by Royal Navy helicopter

    • June 9, 2012

    Was taking part in Jester Azores Challenge

    blue planet ocean world oceans day

    Today is World Oceans Day

    • June 8, 2012

    Celebrate the planet's oceans and seas

    Tip of the Day

    Use your ears

    • June 6, 2012

    To alert you to a problem

    greenock ocena terminal

    Sailor dies in Scottish capsize

    • June 6, 2012

    Two others survive

    Jubilee flotilla at Westminster Bridge

    Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant this afternoon

    • June 3, 2012

    1,000-strong flotilla led by The Queen takes to the river

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    Thames Pageant coming this Sunday

    • June 1, 2012

    Forecast threatens to dampen Diamond Jubilee celebrations

    Skandia 2011

    Other events this weekend…

    • May 30, 2012

    Non-Thames boat happenings for the double Bank Holiday

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    Dave Selby podcast: ‘Mad About the Boat’

    • May 25, 2012

    July 2012: The folly of preserving age-old preservers

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    HMS Coach and Horses

    • May 24, 2012

    Pub transformed into ship for jubilee

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