Battery management made simple, Plastic vs metal seacocks: which is best? Anchoring with shore lines explained, Tips for replacing curved windows; The appeal of the…
Practical Boat Owner
July issue – 8 May
Navigation and your fingertips: an easy guide to digital charts, plotters and MFDs, How to sail around headlands, races and overfalls, 10 ways to save…
AIS across the Channel
PBO’s Sarah Norbury tried out AIS on a summer cruise to Brittany. Did it make crossing the shipping lanes any easier?
On an exposed mooring in the winter?
Avoid iced-up cockpit drains
Hayling Island ferry back in service
Ferry failed two successive safety inspections
Dress to keep warm
with this winter sailing tip
Running the engine for a long time?
Check the stern gland periodically
Hamble sailmaker killed in Avalanche
Ex-Olympic sailing coach dies in hospital in France
Keep track of your stores
With a special notebook...
Seaman dies after rescue
Ship caught fire on Chrismas Eve
Cold weather sailing tip of the day
Keep moving on!
Celebrating Christmas at sea through the ages
Competition attracts poignant images of life on board ship during war and peace
Keep off the ice!
Broads Authority issues warning
De-ice your decks the night before…
Staying on board? Safe decks with this 50p tip
Humber lifeboat crew breaks the ice
River Humber freezes as crew makes their way out to their mooring
New 12 volt electrics course for yachtsmen launched
Baffled by batteries?
Engine struggling to turn over in the cold?
It might be a simple solution:
Yacht club robbed at gunpoint by Santa
Santa-suited man robs US yacht club with shotgun
Cold weather precautions
...to keep your pride and joy safe and sound in the winter
Using a laptop for navigation on board?
Here's a way to use less power
Ten coastguard stations to close
Of the rest, three to be 24 hour, 5 to close at night