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…
Practical Boat Owner
June issue – 10 April
Essential skills, planning and kit for your best summer afloat, Bonding & sealants guide, How to sail tidal estuaries, Yacht handing on rivers, Silicone antifouling…
Deck paint – proper preperation…
...prevents poor performance... and should make it last for years!
Alternative uses for a washboard
A spare washboard can be useful for mounting a chartplotter
Hackles rise over weather forecasts
Download our in-depth feature, 'Weather forecasts: can you rely on them?' free
How to avoid an insurance claim when relaunching
Top tips to keep your launch stress- and claim-free!
Held by pirates, Chandlers appeal for ‘urgent help’
Yacht couple held hostage since October speak out; Miliband says 'We're working very hard'
Abby Sunderland starts… and stops
US teen has charging issues
Dave Selby Podcast ‘Mad About the Boat’ Feb 2010
Still Mad About the Boat - five years on from the first Dave Selby column in PBO, it's time to reflect
Only a few days left to enter PBO’s antifouling trial
Testers wanted, you could win £500!
Tie your own bowline
When going aloft
Replica of 2,600 year old ship reaches South Africa
Phoenicia took large detour to avoid pirates in Africa circumnavigation
OSTAR competitor’s top tip
Peter Bourke's tip for a comfortable night's sail
Keep your boat safe and secure
Top tips to deter thieves from your boat
Watch the birth of a RIB
Cobra Marine opens factory for a weekend
Don’t trust your EPIRB’s ‘test’ button
Lithium batteries are difficult to test...
Jessica Watson in Southern Ocean knockdown
Schoolgirl circumnavigator hit by violent storm
Beware isolated danger marks…
the danger isn't as isolated as you might think...
Check the masthead
by binocular from deck level!
Student wins superyacht design competition
Winner to represent British excellence in Italy
Downwind in a blow? It’s probably windier than you think
Don't get lulled into a false sense of security
Bembridge Harbour Trust plans to bid for harbour
Charity prepares bid