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 • WITH THE EDITOR

Fire risk warnings for dehumidifier use • News and current affairs from the world of boating

Loss during Atlantic Rally for Cruisers

Pleasure vessel policy

PLB registration could be mandatory

Dirty sea data

Boatbuilding college shuts downs

Product recall: Flogas butane cylinders

Trust call to help fund vital voyages

Warning to check your gas regulator!

Heritage Crafts funding for at-risk skills

Funding boost for ‘maritime clusters’

DIARY DATES

Regional news • News from your cruising area

Letters • Sharing your boating thoughts and opinions

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

Weathering winter weather • A handy guide to keeping warm and dry

Sailing in the lap of the Gods • Beyond GPS: divine assistance, suitable rites and a belt and braces multitheistic approach

The Silhouette Mk2 • The Robert Tucker-designs with their familiar serpentine shears are popular pocket yachts. Clive has owned both Mk2 and Mk3 versions

Sula’s story • Julia Jones explains how an English yacht became a Scottish workboat and how a 120-year-old Crinan Ferry design was upcycled

Cornish Shrimper 19 • Rupert Holmes looks into why this small, traditionally-styled cruiser remains so universally popular – and suggests some alternative boats that fulfill a similar brief

Is foiling really the future of cruising? • Foiling technology has revolutionised the world of sailboat racing, but can it make its way to cruising yachts too? Saša Fegić reports

Marina safety • If we fall off the boat in a marina or near the shore, climbing out will be easy… won’t it?

Elan Impression 43 • High, wide and thoroughly modern, Elan’s new I43 offers a remarkably roomy interior and more performance than you might expect, as David Harding discovers

METSTRADE special gear review • Rupert Holmes reports on the DAME design awards at Metstrade, the world’s biggest marine industry trade show

Do you really need an active radar reflector? • Simon Hampton-Matthews, chair of the Cruising Association’s RATS committee, discusses radar reflectors and if they’re still the best way to be seen on the water

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Lining a forecabin • Faced with his 30-year-old Konsort’s knackered vinyl forecabin, Richard Hare renovated it with 12mm insulation and maple strips

How to care for batteries • Stuart James of Predator Batteries shares his expert tips for achieving optimum battery performance on board your boat

How to keep your boat in top condition • The experts at boatcare on the importance of scheduled maintenance

Prop tangle • What should you do when you catch a line or fishing net? Ali Wood looks at the options

ARC sailors dive overboard

North Sea tangle

Two times fouled

Improving a heads pump installation • Trevor Martin shows how he replaced the pumps and modified the installation of his vacuum heads for easier servicing in the future

Saildrive maintenance • Stu Davies shares his tips for making sure your boat’s saildrive runs smoothly

First voyage into foreign waters • Gilbert Park joins a fellow motorboater for his first extended cruise to the Channel Islands and gets...