59 low cost upgrades to enhance your boat; How to reduce weather helm; Boat repairs in a Force 9 storm; Designing and building your own…
Practical Boat Owner
April 2026 issue – out 12 February
Sailmaker tips for getting new life out of old sails; NMEA wifi gateways tested; Wayfarer Weekended on test; Cruising hacks from liveaboard sailors; Solo skipper’s…
New Poole berths likely to be on the quay
Extension preferred to Hamworthy marina
Paralympians waiting for medal decision
Sailors still do not know if they have a bronze
Police use eBay to catch thieves
Tried to sell stolen dinghy and outboard online
Stop your fenders popping out
onshore wind? In a raft?
Fishing village covered with foam
Wind whips up the sea
RNLI launches new lifeboat
Shannon class can go 25 knots
Drunken ferry ‘pirate’ jailed
Steals ferry after two-day bender
Boat fridges – keeping them organised
They're often quite deep
Titanic captain originally failed his navigation test
More than 250,000 seamanship certificates released for the first time
Summer lifeboat launches drop in 2012
Two per cent fall attributed to poor weather
Sailor swept overboard by a wave
But then swept back on his yacht by another
Video: PBO editor talks Green Awards and the Southampton Boat Show
Sarah Norbury chats with Boat Show TV
PBO Green Award winners announced
Four organisations triumph
Southampton Boat Show opens
Olympic and Paralympic stars cut the ribbon
Dave Selby podcast: ‘Mad About The Boat’
October 2012: The perfect setting for a social gaffe
Allen/Hex Keys
Check before you force it
Disabled teen sails around Isle of Wight
Now she dreams of crossing the Atlantic
Hoisting signal flags
how not to lose a halyard
Chandlers begin new voyage
Paul and Rachel set sail in Lynn Rival again
Video: Cornish Crabber 12 on test
Small on the outside, big on the inside