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Summer 2025 issue of Practical Boat Owner

Summer issue – 5 June

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…

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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…

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Don’t overgrease your winches

  • November 12, 2010

Keep them turning all year round....

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Still afloat? Keep your boat safe in the winter gales

  • November 11, 2010

Essential tips to keep your boat snug and safe as the storms bite

Burnham RNLI skydivers

Burnham RNLI appeal passes £100k

  • November 10, 2010

East Coast boathouse fund on target

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Save sticky, UV-degraded plastic with cheap cola

  • November 10, 2010

Fenders and clutch handles - a new lease of life

Round the Island Race

Re-live the Round the Island Race on TV

  • November 9, 2010

Channel 4 to broadcast documentary on 13th November at 7.30am

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Don’t pinch in waves!

  • November 9, 2010

it'll slow you down...

Crouching Sailfish, hidden Maldon

Dave Selby Podcast ‘Mad About the Boat’ December 2010

  • November 8, 2010

Listen to Dave Selby's column from the December 2010 issue of PBO

Peter Thomas, Sales Manager Cornish Crabbers

Cornish Crabbers looks down under

  • November 5, 2010

Rock-based firm starts distributing in Australia

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Help your headfoil last longer

  • November 5, 2010

Save the foils with this tip

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Prevent crossed threads

  • November 4, 2010

How to avoid crossing or stripping a thread

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Stop Snapshackles unsnapping

  • November 3, 2010

With this tip

Gipsy Moth IV

Gipsy Moth to stay in UK

  • November 1, 2010

Sailing Academy to retain history-making yacht

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Jib cars are your friend

  • November 1, 2010

Go upwind more efficiently!

MET OFFICE has gale warnings in force for the area

Tall ship dismasts SW of Scilly

  • October 29, 2010

RN helicopter on standby to go to the aid of Fryderyk Chopin

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First Aid tip of the day: Dealing with burns

  • October 28, 2010

Simple kitchen item is best to keep in your kit

Barge RNLI rescue

Lifeboat rescues canal boat at sea in F8 winds and huge waves

  • October 27, 2010

Barge was in Dover strait, with no VHF

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PG Tip of the Day

  • October 26, 2010

Making tea more easily when beating

Round 3 offshore wind farm disputed zone 7 West Wight map

Your chance to examine proposed south coast wind farms

  • October 26, 2010

Drop in sessions for information planned in Dorset, Hants and IOW

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Safely wash ropes in the washing machine

  • October 25, 2010

How to do it without damaging the ropes or the drum

Ben Ainslie sponsored by Henri Lloyd

Chat live with Ben Ainslie

  • October 22, 2010

Questions wanted for conversation with olympic star

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