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PBO Essential Maintenance Guide - out now!

  • Mon, 14 May 2012
  • Elizabeth Paine

116 pages of practical advice to maintain and improve your boat

PBO essential maintenance guide<br />

On sale now, the new PBO Essential Maintenance Guide brings together 116 pages of expert advice and tips on how to maintain and improve your boat, from the writers of Practical Boat Owner, Britain's biggest-selling yachting magazine.

This toolbox-size guide for boat work brings together the best and most useful articles from Practical Boat Owner magazine in one handy reference. The wide range of subjects covered includes:

  • Start the season
  • Engine maintenance
  • Electrics
  • Electronics
  • Working with wood
  • Fibreglass repair
  • Paint and varnish
  • Antifouling
  • Sails, rigging and deck gear
  • Laying up

The print version of the PBO Essential Maintenance Guide costs £4.99 and can be ordered from PBO's Copy Service, tel 01202 440832 or email copyreport@ipcmedia.com (price inc P&P), or is available from most good newsagents.

The digital version can be ordered in various formats for £4.16 via Zinio here.

 

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Frank Hansen,
May 14 14:43

Thank you for making this useful guide
avalible!!

Jill selwood,
May 16 09:21

I have tried three newsagents, including W H Smith, and cannot find a copy. Can you tell me where I can find one ?

PBO,
May 16 10:36

PBO replies to Jill Selwood: thank you for highlighting this - in fact it is available at most newsagents, not all... so we have also made it available through our Copy Service, contact details added to the story.

Joris Verbruggen,
June 26 22:43

Do you send to Belgium?

PBO,
June 28 16:54

reply to Joris Verbruggen:

We do send the Essential Maintenance Guide to Belgium, although there is an extra £3.34 cost for postage and packaging. If you contact us via the phone number or email address above, we will be able to send one to you.

Lionnel Parant,
July 17 20:27

A tip for Jill and Joris: you can read it through Zinio website. Or you can also download it on a Tablet PC via Zinio in order to read this excellent book anywhere...

Modesto Rodriguez Soriano,
July 21 19:25

I'm a subscriber of your PBO and would like to receive your Essencial Maintenance Guide
Could you send it to Spain?
Regards

PBO,
July 27 12:03

reply to Modesto Rodriguez Soriano:

We do send the Essential Maintenance Guide to Spain, although there is an extra postage and packaging cost. If you contact us via the phone number or email address above, we will be able to send one to you.

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