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    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…

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    Build a traditional boat

    Build a traditional boat

    • April 10, 2008

    Love working with wood and always fancied building a traditional boat?

    Yachtsmen saved in North Sea

    Yachtsmen saved in North Sea

    • April 9, 2008

    Dramatic rescue off the Norfolk Coast

    Dave Selby

    Sailing weaknesses, May 2008

    • April 3, 2008

    Listen to Dave Selby's monthly podcast online now

    Watch PBO video: How to prevent osmosis

    • April 1, 2008

    PBO practicals editor, Jake Kavanagh, demonstrates using International Gelshield to prevent osmosis

    The amazing self-healing rubber material

    • April 1, 2008

    The unbelievable new substance with implications for the marine industry

    Adrian Flanagan: Yacht Barrabus up for sale

    • March 31, 2008

    Specially designed stainless-steel hulled yacht will be sold in the summer

    Stolen PLB tracked to city wheelie bin

    Stolen PLB tracked to city wheelie bin

    • March 27, 2008

    Thieves set off PLB after burglary guiding the owner and police to a city street

    New research indicates that sharks react to air pressure changes, predicting bad weather

    • March 26, 2008

    New research indicates that sharks react to air pressure changes, predicting bad weather

    Wave-powered skipper chats on Ham radio

    • March 25, 2008

    Japanese adventurer has good radio reception a week into his planned 75-day voyage from Hawaii to Japan

    ‘Just another exciting day in the Southern Ocean’

    • March 20, 2008

    Russian adventurer circumnavigating Antarctica has to repair rudder in mid-ocean

    Watch highlights of the RYA dinghy show

    • March 19, 2008

    The only show dedicated to dinghy sailors screens highlights on RYA TV

    Peters Opal court decision still weeks away

    Peters Opal court decision still weeks away

    • March 17, 2008

    After three-day hearing, judge's decision not expected for several weeks

    Sunseeker open days in Poole this weekend

    • March 14, 2008

    Luxury motoryachts plus loads of marine exhibitors

    Blackpool: Severe weather affects grounded ferry

    • March 13, 2008

    Ro-ro ferry Riverdance is blown further over and begins sinking into the sand

    Stormy weather – more low pressure on the way

    • March 10, 2008

    Tornado chasers on alert as 82mph gust recorded at Berry Head, Devon

    No charges against ‘three men in a boat’

    No charges against ‘three men in a boat’

    • March 7, 2008

    Seven-hour search and rescue called off as men found safe in France

    Dave Selby

    Impressing the ladies, April 2008

    • March 6, 2008

    Listen to Dave Selby's monthly podcast online now

    MCA strike closes five rescue stations

    MCA strike closes five rescue stations

    • March 6, 2008

    Strategic support centre backs up short-staffed stations that remain operational

    Man dies in Bristol boatyard fire

    • March 5, 2008

    Police investigation under way

    RNLI crews recognised for Ice Prince rescue

    • March 4, 2008

    Gripping blow-by-blow account of January's rescue in Force 9 conditions

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