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    Practical Boat Owner

    August 2025 issue of Practical Boat Owner

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    Everything you need to know about trailer-sailing; How to spray gelcoat; Improvements on the continuous splice; Retrofitting a £1 mast; Tips for avoiding collisions;  Enduring…

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    Tying a yacht onto her trailer

    • October 4, 2010

    Make sure she's safe with these tips.

    Warsash Fuel Berth

    Warsash Fuel Berth sinks

    • October 4, 2010

    Pontoon founders, but no fuel leaks out

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    MAIB condemns ship’s failure to stop after collision

    • October 1, 2010

    Crew ignored mayday calls and altered documents

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    The rhyming basics of sail trim

    • September 30, 2010

    It's not just for kids!

    Pride of Bilbao

    Bilbao leaves Portsmouth

    • September 29, 2010

    Ferry ceases popular route

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    Logbooks – what to use?

    • September 29, 2010

    The best book is the cheapest

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    Laying up tip: In absentia

    • September 28, 2010

    Not going to be there? Help the yard..

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    Laying up tip: Easy sail washing

    • September 27, 2010

    End of season sail cleaning

    Lifeboat rescues dismasted yacht

    Yacht dismasted on Lymington pile

    • September 24, 2010

    Torrential rain reduced visibility to nil

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    300 boats to race up the Thames this weekend

    • September 24, 2010

    Great River race hits the capital on Saturday

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    Laying up tip: Save your topsides in the winter gales

    • September 24, 2010

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    Green Boat Show

    2010 Green Boat Show

    • September 22, 2010

    Broads-backed Green Boat Show on this Sunday

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    Laying up tip: Help the yard remove the rig

    • September 21, 2010

    How you can help the boatyard

    RYA club of the year 2011

    Is your sailing club the best in the UK?

    • September 20, 2010

    RYA launches Club of the Year 2011 awards

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    Laying up tip: Turn automatic bilge pumps off before the lift

    • September 20, 2010

    Keep the yard staff dry!

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    How to clean your ropes at the end of the season

    • September 17, 2010

    Kill two birds with one stone

    HMS York

    Warship helps in yacht rescue off South Devon

    • September 16, 2010

    HMS York stands by drifting 30ft yacht in worsening conditions

    PBO GReen Awards Winners

    PBO Green Awards presented at Southampton Boat Show

    • September 15, 2010

    2010 winners receive their gongs on the PBO stand

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    PBO Green Award winners on video

    • September 14, 2010

    Editor Sarah Norbury explains the rationale behind choosing the winners for the PBO Green Awards 2010

    Dave Selby Cartoon October 2010

    Dave Selby Podcast ‘Mad About the Boat’ October 2010

    • September 14, 2010

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

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