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

Waiting for the tide

What is next for Cornish Crabbers? • News and current affairs from the world of boating

A ‘catalogue of failings’ behind two Wheelyboat fatalities following capsize

Major review

Electric first

Cape Horn Hall of Fame awards

Technological boost for watchkeepers

Dunkirk berths set to double

Shrimper association stalwart retires

Olympian raises £18,000 by boat raffle

Voluntary charter standard launched

DIARY DATES

News from your cruising area • Got a news story that would interest a fellow PBO reader? We want to hear from you! Email PBO news editor Laura Hodgetts at pbo@futurenet.com

More opportunities to get on the water

Sharing your boating thoughts and opinions

SEADOG OF THE MONTH

Win an OLAS tag MOB rescue device

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

Everything goes in cycles • Did you know it was PBO that blazed the trail to today’s foiling America’s Cup boats?

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Rambles in the Project Portal • A knackered outboard produces some highly technical in-shed reflections

River reminisces • As winter sets in, Marsali Taylor recalls a golden day on the river

Bavaria 34 • Rupert Holmes revisits this popular high volume cruiser from the late 1990s and early 2000s and looks at the alternatives

Other alternatives

The Medway Doble • Celebrating a derivative of the Peter Boat and other small sprit sail dinghies

RECOMMENDED READING

Hanneke Boon: life after Wharram • Ali Wood learns how a shy 19-year-old–one of James Wharram’s ‘five girls’ – became a designer, skipper and head of a multihull business

The pneumatic keel • Ben Lowings talks to Bjorn Haraldsson about his simple air-regulated keel

Delphia 11 • Just like today’s sailing cruisers, the new generation of motorboats give you a lot of space for their length. David Harding spent some time on the Delphia 11 to see what else she has to offer

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New gear • Rupert Holmes previews the latest marine products

BUYER’S GUIDE TO Portable power stations • Fox Morgan tests and evaluates eight 230V and 240V multi-outlet portable power stations to see which might be best for you

POWER PACK CHARGE LIFE

How to ride out storms in a harbour • PBO experts and readers share tips on keeping your boat safe in a blow

THE BOAT OWNER’S GUIDE TO Smoother cruising • Jake Kavanagh looks at the gear available to help small-motorboat sailors to minimise repeated shocks and whole-body vibration

ON THE MARKET

Exhaust elbow repair • Mark Ryan tackles a job to avoid ‘killing your engine and perhaps your crew…’

EXTRACTING THE TUBE-STACK & SERVICING THE HEAT EXCHANGER

LESSONS LEARNED

Exhaust elbow repair guide

Preparing to lift out • The experts at boatcare explain how to take the stress out of dry docking your boat

Refit of a helm and instrument panel • Tony Davies shows how he rebuilt the helm position and instrument panel on a 1970s Reinell V-204 sports cruiser

How to change a filter • Stu Davies takes us back to basics and advises on how to change oil, fuel...