Practical Boat Owner

Published by TI Media Limited Practical Boat Owner is Britain's biggest-selling boating magazine, trusted and respected by all its readers. A source of useful and helpful information for both power and sail boat owners, PBO helps you get the most from your boat acting as a forum for interacting with like-minded individuals.

Practical Boat Owner

Giving you what you want

Calor U-turn on 3.9kg & 4.5kg gas bottles

‘It can happen to anyone’: Pip Hare runs aground

Crushed yacht worker ‘lucky to be alive’

Seadogz RIB fatality was avoidable

RORC first

Book a talk

Dismasted yacht drama for PBO reader

Licence fee increase for inland boaters

Investigative findings row

Navigation app disablement warning

Jubilee Sailing Trust ceases trading

Small craft electronic navigation focus

DIARY DATES

Regional news • News from your cruising area

Eco moorings boost for Studland Bay

Letters • Sharing your boating thoughts and opinions

Channel hopping • Essential monthly highlights from the world of online sailing channels with Kass Schmitt

That launch day sinking feeling • Hop aboard… but don’t forget your snorkel!

Seagoing luxury • Sailing the Ocean of Dreams: adventures and misadventures off the Land of Nod

Mast musings • The engine is fixed at last and mast down shenanigans are recalled as the ‘horror show’ of re-rigging for the new season looms

Westerly Cirrus and Tiger • Two excellent fast cruisers that can now be bought for the price of a decent sofa!

Boats to go family cruising • Duncan Kent chooses a selection of sail and power boats that are ideally suited to cruising with your children and grandchildren

The kit that got us across the Atlantic • From Starlink to tradewind sails, first aid and cooking, Ali Wood reports on new and traditional gear for transatlantic sailors

New gear • Rupert Holmes brings the biggest stories from the annual Metstrade marine exhibition in Amsterdam

Tried & tested • The team test the crowd-sourced What’s Ashore app and the new Chatham Hexham waterproof boots

How to find the best cover • Insurance costs are rising but you can still get the right cover for your boat if you do some homework, says Jake Kavanagh

Can osmosis cause my boat to sink? • Katy Stickland talks to surveyor Ben Sutcliffe-Davies about why osmosis can be an indicator of high moisture content in glassfibre

Rough weather at sea in a motorboat • Gilbert Park undertakes some training for riding out heavy seas and wind in his Mitchell 28 – but first has to find some rough weather

Simple cockpit grate • Zoran Glozinic saves some cash by making a new cockpit grating for his yacht using redundant old wooden kitchen shelves

Ethanol-blended fuels in outboards • E5 and especially E10 petrol require much more ‘fuel husbandry’ than older, ethanol-free petrol blends, as Jake Frith has discovered

Coppercoat vs traditional antifoul • Nick and Wendy Tyler apply both coatings to their Moody 37. But which one will last the distance?

How I built my 18ft motorboat • Having already built a dinghy and a dayboat, Ben Russell decided to design and construct an 18ft Selway Fisher Clyde motorboat

Acid and its uses on board • Applying corrosive acid to magically clean or loosen a boat part sounds tempting – but caution is required, as Andy Pag advises

DIY low friction ring • Remy Laine shows how he made a low friction ring with integrated soft shackle

Installing a transducer • Brian Johnson replaces his old paddlewheel log with an electromagnetic transducer

Pocket cruiser to Belgium • George Stanton battles mal...