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…
Free cruising guides
Download cruising guides from Practical Boat Owner
MAIB Ouzo reports
Download the MAIB Ouzo reports here
Geoff Holt to sail the Atlantic
Quadriplegic sailor to cross the pond later this year
PBO Listen Online – Dave Selby Uncut
Listen to all of Dave Selby's podcasts
Video – Preventing osmosis blisters
Here you can see Jake Kavanagh's step-by-step demonstration of how to prepare your hull for a coat of Gelshield
World ARC yachts finish in Rodney Bay, St Lucia
Final 10NM parade to the finish at Rodney Bay, St.Lucia
Buyers beware: stolen narrowboat may be for sale
Fifty-foot steel Bonikowski built boat missing from Chorley
Mike Perham in Southern Ocean knockdown
Open 50 pushed past 90 degrees by huge wave
Possible takeover at Sweden Yachts
Norwegian takeover may save jobs
Top Dogs – Knox-Johnston, Simpson and Fiennes
Three part BBC series focuses on each of the old soldiers in turn starting tonight
Video – PBO lifejacket test
Watch the range of lifejackets being tested in the RNLI's lifeboat college pool.
Video – PBO liferaft test
Prices of liferafts range from £500 to more than £2,000. Will the cheap ones costing under £560 suit your type of sailing as well as your pocket? Pat Manley and…
National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) contact details
Contact details for the 40 National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) lookouts around the British coast
Yacht Club Directory
All addresses and contact details from our main YBW marine directory.
Berth Finder
Find your ideal berth in Europe and the USA.
Weather forecasts by mobile phone
PBO compares instant forecasts sent to your mobile phone by text message
PBO Chart Corrections
Find Recent revisions from the Admiralty in this month’s PBO magazine.
Almanac updates
Changes to the 2009 Reeds PBO small craft almanac
Henri Lloyd joins Formula 1 new boys Brawn GP
Clothing manufacturer gains international exposure
Geoff Holt to sail the Atlantic
Quadriplegic sailor to cross the pond