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…
Ouch! Crane drops yacht in Cherbourg
Eyewitness account and photos of yacht fallen on the hard
Dave Selby Podcast ‘Mad about the boat’ May 2009
In the competitve world of paper boat racing, a few folds of origami and a coat or two of yacht varnish are simply not enough. Hear about Dave's break into…
Events galore over May Day long weekend
In case you can't get on the water, PBO's events calendar has jumbles, shows, demo days and more
Cruise ships bound for Mexico are rerouted
Flu outbreak spooks tourist ships and yachts
Geoff Holt launches new wheelchair accessible boat
Fishbourne Sailability delighted with brand new wheelchair-accessible vessel named Dougal
PBO June 2009 issue
Five liferafts liferafts
Chesil Trust sponsors Dorset school children at WPNSA
Chesil Trust sponsors Dorset school children at WPNSA
Yacht thieves in action – UK and Med
A Bavaria, a Beneteau and two boats on trailers - gone
Italian cruise ship crew repels pirates
Dramatic account of action north of the Seychelles
Beaulieu Boat Jumble – PBO was there
10, 815 visitors - were you one of them?
Web weather – Resources for building your own weather station
Clever electronics and the power of the Internet mean it has never been easier to keep an eye on the weather. Here is a list of useful websites to help…
PBO’s Tip of the Day
Take time out to browse our award-winning tips
Peter Snow launches online JST bingo
Jubilee Sailing Trust patron announces new fund-raising venture
Jessica Watson is setting out to become the youngest person to sail solo non-stop and unassisted around the World
Sixteen-year-old Australian is setting out to become the youngest around the world
PBO BoatCheck – Fairey Swordsman
Assessing the marine equivalent of the E-type Jaguar
PBO on Twitter
PBO's Twitter feed - what are we twittering about?
Video: Windjammer Peking rounds Cape Horn in 1929
They don't make 'em like this any more: Awe-inspiring footage of windjammer Peking rounding the horn in a storm
Knox-Johnston and his proteges
Eight British solo circumnavigators were in London yesterday - how many more can you name?
Three US boat shows discontinued
Too many competing boat shows
Premier offers rewards for recommending a friend
£250 reward for any referrals that become annual berth holders