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…
Jeckells The Sailmakers goes green
Recycling old sails
More Brits feared kidnapped on yacht off Seychelles
Ecoterra website report
Keeping cool…
...without a fridge!
PBO photo gallery: RNLI assists racers in Poole
Keelboat capsizes
RNLI assist yachts in Poole Harbour
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,…
Every step…
... needs a handhold!
Mole
Mole
Mizzen (mizen)
Mizzen (mizen)
Mitre
Mitre
Miss stays, to
Miss stays, to
Millibar
Millibar
Middle ground
Middle ground
Microspheres
Microspheres
MHWS
MHWS
MHWN
MHWN
Metacentre
Metacentre
Meridian
Meridian
Mercator’s projection
Mercator's projection
Measured distance
Measured distance
Marina
Marina