Practical Boat Owner

R19 keelboat capsized

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,…

High Barbaree racing off Lymington, photo Ron Hansom

An estimated half-a-million visitors in July flocked to Brest, Brittany, for the week-long festival of traditional boats, with another week-long event that runs the following week at Douarnenez, along the…

Lowrance Structure Scan image

Views taken from a press trip off Helsinki, where anti-submarine nets left over from the Cold War still litter the sea bed, plus a man-made lake in Oklahoma where trees,…

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Chile to Cape Horn

Yachting journalist and TV producer, Digby Fox, crews aboard The Blizzard, a custom Radford schooner on a four-week voyage south from Puerto Montt, in the Golfo de Corcovedo.

Lifejacket test

Watch footage of the PBO lifejacket test in the RNLI lifeboat college pool

Liferaft test by PBO

Watch a range of lifejackets being tested in the RNLI's lifeboat college pool.