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…
Practical Boat Owner
April 2026 issue – out 12 February
Sailmaker tips for getting new life out of old sails; NMEA wifi gateways tested; Wayfarer Weekended on test; Cruising hacks from liveaboard sailors; Solo skipper’s…
Major pre-Olympic security exercise at Weymouth
Skandia Regatta used as test-bed
Emergency steering: check the cap!
Loosen it now...
Old Gaffer sinks off Cowes
Couple rescued by yacht after broach
Sailing for Hospice
PBO reader's fundraising race
How to beat against the tide
It's a race against tide!
Azores and Back – the 2011 Yacht Race
Four-yearly 2,500-mile challenge starts this Saturday
Freeing a stuck screw
Go the other way
Mainsail trimming in light airs
How to go to windward fast
Yacht breaks mooring in storm – and parks itself in marina a mile away
Dehler 38 makes unassisted voyage in Kerrera Sound near Oban
Make your water tank taste better
Natural, juicy and cheap!
Sail repairs – how to get sticky stuff to stick
Acetone is the key!
Facebook and Twitter with PBO
Diving digitally into the 21st century
Competitions
Win with PBO!
Southampton start for Clipper 11-12
Maritime city launches round-the-world race on 31 July
Dave Selby podcast ‘Mad About the Boat’ July 2011
Sinking? That just takes the cake
RYA – new Active Marina programme
Aiming to get boat owners on the water more
My other boat’s a canoe!
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Polishing gelcoat
Cut back first
Harbours on film
Guides to UK harbours
Heaving To in a light displacement boat
Speed is the key... or rather, the lack of it