Practical Boat Owner

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd 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 with the editor • To receive the editor’s monthly email newsletter, go to our website: www.pbo.co.uk

TS Tenacious sails again – for now • News and current affairs from the world of boating

Round The Island Race Village return

Communications revamp for ‘Eyes along the coast’ charity

New boatgen ambassadors

Boats for young sailors

New life for old sails – to reduce landfill

Leisure boaters priced off the water

Saved from the Waves

Solo sailing record claimed

Small grants for community projects

Autonomous ship’s navigation data

DIARY DATES

Regional News • News from your cruising area

Hillyard classic to return

Letters • Readers share their thoughts and opinions

Ryan to the Rescue

Drop the hook • Bringing an end to centuries of controversy, the best anchor in the world is at last revealed

All Sail Week • Tough as old boots, brave as lions, has our ancestors’ innate skilfulness become extinct?

Having a finger on the pulse • It’s great living near a pier – there’s always something going on that’s worth watching

Best British-built cruisers around 32ft • Peter Poland shares his expertise on British-built second-hand yachts costing less than £30,000, which are comfortable and seaworthy

Book reviews • Marsali Taylor shares our recommended maritime reads

Painting a Corribee Mk2 • A tale of prolific boat owner Clive Marsh’s Corribee Mk2 and a warning to wait a while before changing a boat’s colour

A guide to seal spotting • Can you tell the difference between a common seal and a grey seal? Genevieve Leaper shares some identification tips

Gourmet galley • Rupert Holmes shares ideas for easy, tasty meals and has tips to help extend shelf times of foods on boats with limited refrigeration

Alternatives to gas • Rupert Holmes encourages a broad-minded approach to onboard cooking appliances and gadgets

New Gear • Rupert Holmes on oilskins, outboards and more

Tried & Tested • RIB enthusiast Douglas Crocket is impressed with these batteries after years of putting them through their paces

Bearing up well • Clive Marsh explains why many trailing sailors may have the wrong type of bearings and don’t know what is happening inside their hubs

Replace or rebuild? • At what point is keeping an old diesel engine throwing good money after bad? PBO expert Stu Davies has some tips to help you decide

Heads and hosetails • Holding tanks, electric versus manual heads, and stamping out unwanted smells – Ali Wood gets some advice on sea toilets

PROJECT BOAT RESTORATION Refurbishing the heads on Maximus • Gilbert Park replaces hoses on the PBO Project boat

Solo sailing around Scotland’s Small Isles • Paul Radcliffe takes advantage of good weather to explore the islands off the west coast of Scotland

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DIY fuel polisher defeats dirty diesel • Diesel engines have simple tastes, says Graham Keating, but clean fuel is one that can’t be guaranteed in all corners of the world

Knockdown • Golden Globe Race entrant Guy Waites, a former Clipper Race skipper, suffers mast failure 300 miles from the Azores

Mount a stern anchor • David Berry makes a pushpit bracket to deploy a Med...