How to paint your boat like a pro; the best navigation apps for UK waters; My 14 biggest boat ownership mistakes; how one couple refitted…
Practical Boat Owner
September 2026 – out on 6 August
Watchkeeping, sleep patterns and short-handed passages – a guide to night sailing; Orca navigation system tested over a 450 mile voyage; Could you be a…
Yann Quenet: Why this solo French sailor refitted his micro-yacht to sail the globe again
Yann Quenet stands out as much for the philosophies behind his self-designed and built 13ft Baluchon as for his sailing exploits. Rupert Holmes reports on one of today’s most inspirational…
Faurby 335E: Elegant craftsmanship meets effortless sailing
Few boats under 35ft (10.5m) are built to this sort of quality. This is why the Faurby 335E stands out, as David Harding found out
Starlink Global Roam shake-up will hit cruising sailors
Starlink has cancelled the popular Global Roam plan and placed a 30-day international roaming limit on its Roam Unlimited plan.
6 cruising dinghy options for sailors wanting to downsize to keep sailing
Had enough of sailing cruiser ownership but not yet ready to give up sailing itself? Jake Frith delves into the merits and options of trading down to a much smaller…
Love me tender: how a liveaboard crew improved their PVC dinghy for adventure
Richard Thomson fitted out his new dinghy with old spares and items found while beachcombing to make it fit for liveaboard life
Sailing by numbers: Are instruments dulling our seamanship?
Richard Thomson ponders whether we should be focusing less on the tech and more on sailing by the feel of the boat, wind and waves
How to fix a lost in-boom reefing line
Cruising Association members Paul and Val Lingard explain how they threaded an errant reefing line back into their boom
Wooden Boat Stage 2026: Focus on inspiring the next generation of boatbuilders
The Wooden Boat Stage 2026 at the Southampton International Boat Show will be delivering a series of talks and demonstrations aimed at encouraging young people to consider a career in
UFO encounter mid-Atlantic: how one boat crew saved their catamaran
Tim Stickley meets the crew of Hanuman which suffered hull damage from an unidentified floating object 150 miles from land
Cruising around Britain in a sea kayak
Inspiration for Clive Marsh's sailing club when adventurer Ian Hayward visits.
Essential boat construction guide: GRP, wood, and metal
Rupert Holmes looks at what lies under the surface of different types of boat construction and addresses common misconceptions
Giving the bumpkin a new lease of life
Old clinker-built open boats are being given new life as competitive sailing vessels on the East Coast
‘Future boats will be owned by the women who build them’: How Proa designer Rob Denney launched a boatbuilding school
New Zealand boat designer Rob Denney, celebrated for his Harryproa, a variation of the double-hulled vessel originating in the Pacific with a hull-mounted rig, didn’t start with the idea of…
October 2026 – out on 3 September
How to paint your boat like a pro; the best navigation apps for UK waters; My 14 biggest boat ownership mistakes; how one couple refitted their second-hand boat and lived…
How I built a lightweight DIY tender for my motorboat from scratch
Charles Beddingfield designs and constructs a 2m pram dinghy from plywood and epoxy to use as a DIY tender for his motorboat Tudor Rose
How I made DIY sails for a Laser
Colin Clayton explains how he experimented with dinghy junk rigs and made his own DIY sails
Cascade systems explained: How to gain mechanical advantage when trimming sails
Cascade purchases are cheap and can give a huge mechanical advantage. Stan Cockeram explains where they can and can’t be used
Boat stuffing box access: the tools and techniques to make it easier
Trying to get at the almost-out-of-reach boat stuffing box is the stuff of nightmares, Dr Ieuan Davies has some ideas that might make life easier
‘I have a cunningham plan’
You can immeaurably increase your sailing pleasure by fitting a cunningham to your mainsail, advises Bob Goode
Sailing books: best new releases to read
Katy Stickland chooses her pick of the latest sailing books that will keep sailors enthralled