Boat Owners’ Antenna Buyer’s Guide, How to make a bridle for secure mooring, Designing and making your own sails, 48 launch checks for skipper and…
Practical Boat Owner
May 2026 Issue – out 12 March
59 low cost upgrades to enhance your boat; How to reduce weather helm; Boat repairs in a Force 9 storm; Designing and building your own…
Rough trip ahead?
Be prepared for a feast
Training yacht loses mast in gale off Portland
Disabled 100-footer drifts into Race with 11 young people on board
Heading out today?
head to the bookshop...
Latest hazard to Thames navigation
David Walliams swimming river for Sport Relief
‘Hostage’ on sale now!
Chandler's book-signing at Southampton
Can you lend a yacht to the Marines?
Troops therapeutic training vessel out of action after hit-and-run
Irene heads north with second storm on her tail
Dozens of dead across North America
Sling your hook without the stress
The first thing to remember
Lifeboat retrieves Timothy Spall
RNLI assists lost actor
New Coastwatch station
Purpose-built watchtower unveiled in Torbay
No room for Roman
Oligarch's megayacht ousted from Antibes marina
Glassing things in
...the neater way!
Pirates get life sentences
Two 'Quest' killers convicted, more to come
Hurricane grows through Caribbean
Irene destroys Necker and threatens Florida
Oiling Wood: A Tip
You don't need much!
Rán takes the Fastnet as capsized Rambler sits it out
Prizes in Plymouth but postmortem for the Maxi
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall rescued by lifeboat
TV chef and son ran aground fishing
Dave Selby podcast ‘Mad About the Boat’
September 2011: Three Rivers of no return
Harbours on film – September 2011
Guides to UK harbours
Rainy downwind sailing
Keep the cabin dry...