Sailing on sunshine: how to get the most out of your solar panels; Latest advice on installing lithium batteries that every boat owner should read;…
Practical Boat Owner
December 2025 issue – out on 23 October
From steering to rigging (and all the things we forget!) – the essential checks for the prepared skipper; Displacement theory and how it affects the…
Video: Hobie Tandem Island
The PBO team try out the Hobie Tandem Island trimaran
Clipper Race to finish in Southampton
Grand finale five days before Olympics start
Paris court jails Somali pirates
Apologies to French couple
Search and Rescue helicopters next for axe
Portland and Boulmer SAR to close in privatisation
One dead, five missing in shipwreck off North Wales
Prince William helps save two Russian sailors
Old, sticky fenders?
Get them as good as new
Red Tape Challenge
Government wants your views!
Coastguard modernisation goes ahead
Protests fail - nine stations to close
1980 Olympic boycott sailors’ plea to RYA
Lost British Olympic sailing team of 1980 seek recognition
South Coast Wind Park meetings
Divers and fishermen consulting now – but leisure sailors must wait until February
Book your Weymouth 2012 berth now!
Olympic summer applications open to 12 December 2011
Last call for consultation on Dorset marine site
Public Consultation on Studland to Portland possible marine Special Area of Conservation ends Thursday 24 November
Marine Conservation Zone consultation delayed
Minister orders further investigations
Tuning your rig at sea
...leeward shroud leverage
DAME awards winners announced
Revolving portlight wins, plus good news for Spinlock and Digital Yacht
Sharpen a blade without a sharpener
Matches are the key
Removing stuck bolts
Tap it
Dorset yachtsmen killed in Majorca helicopter crash
Well known sailors raced swans, J/24s and XODs
Boat-owner’s diary
The PBO 'family' share their boat-owning treats, trials and tribulations
‘Lives at risk’ after rescue boat vandalising
Police seek witness for Loch Lomond RIB damage