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

Myth busting

Does your organisation reuse, repair or upcycle sports kit?

Charter to tackle sports clothing impact • News and current affairs from the world of boating

Reducing reliance on conventional petrochemical materials is a factor

Sunseeker fined $200,000 in the US for illegally-sourced Myanmar teak

BBC Radio 4 long wave service closed

Microyacht abandoned

Eight Bells for adventurer Colin Swale

The wooden boat stage returns to SIBS

DIARY DATES

Flagship status awarded

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

Sharing your boating thoughts and opinions

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

America’s Cup monkey business • The 1886 British challenger’s secret weapons

The loneliness of command • The three phases of leadership at sea

Trouble with MV Kermit • Boats, I concluded, were ornery critters the moment they got out of their own element

THE ULTIMATE MARINE GEAR

Commander 45 & Shadow 33 • Sail small and charter a big motor to enjoy these mobile cottages on the Broads

Duchy 25 • Outboard power and top quality mark out this trailable motorboat as something different, says Alex Smith

Sailing with Sir Robin • Sailing legend Sir Robin Knox-Johnston talks to Ali Wood about self-steering, plum duff and why he was told to ‘slow down’ for his round the world finish

10 pilotage mistakes [AND HOW TO AVOID THEM] • James Stevens reveals where most sailors go wrong and explains what you need to do to ensure safe inshore navigation

Essential pilotage kit

Jester turns 20 • Jester Challenge founder Ewen Southby-Tailyour and PBO’s Jake Kavanagh on the enduring appeal of this long-distance sailing event

Passage planning in the digital age • Using digital sources to answer basic navigational questions can take some of the hard work out of passage planning and making…

New gear • Rupert Holmes looks at the latest marine products

Book reviews • Katy Stickland shares our recommended maritime reads

Keeping your cool • When it comes to off-grid marine refrigeration, which is best– front-opening, top-loading or a cool box? PBO has top tips for effective cold storage

Carolyn’s tips

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Understanding boat construction • Rupert Holmes looks at what lies under the surface of different types of boat construction and addresses common misconceptions

Then there was light • All-season boater Gilbert Park hunts down the perfect spotlight

UFO encounter mid-Atlantic • Tim Stickley meets the crew of Hanuman which suffered hull damage from an unidentified floating object 150 miles from land

Waterproofing boat electronics • John Payne explains how to keep your marine electrical and electronics systems as waterproof as possible

Building a kit dinghy • Paul Scott undertakes a 6ft Barrow Boat kit-building challenge in memory of a sailing companion

Reefing line retrieval • Cruising Association members Paul and Val Lingard explain how they threaded an errant reefing line back into their boom

Lithium battery bank installation • Rupert Sugden undertakes a major electrical redesign on his 1997 Najad...