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…
Make weighing anchor cleaner…
with this tip
Jeckells The Sailmakers goes green
Recycling old sails
More Brits feared kidnapped on yacht off Seychelles
Ecoterra website report
Keeping cool…
...without a fridge!
PBO photo gallery: RNLI assists racers in Poole
Keelboat capsizes
RNLI assist yachts in Poole Harbour
PBO boat tester and photographer David Harding was on the water only a few yards off Poole YC. ‘It was fairly breezy and, by the standards of the harbour,…
Every step…
... needs a handhold!
Mole
Mole
Mizzen (mizen)
Mizzen (mizen)
Mitre
Mitre
Miss stays, to
Miss stays, to
Millibar
Millibar
Middle ground
Middle ground
Microspheres
Microspheres
MHWS
MHWS
MHWN
MHWN
Metacentre
Metacentre
Meridian
Meridian
Mercator’s projection
Mercator's projection
Measured distance
Measured distance