Practical Boat Owner - 1 Jan 2026
SAILING ON SUNSHINE
What to wear when sailing...
EVERY BOAT OWNER NEEDS TO KNOW!
HOWTO GUIDES
Baltic island hopping
Time to change the Beaufort Scale?
Three women and their wooden boats
Main cover image: a sunshine sail in a Hawk 20. Photo by David Harding
Sailing on sunshine
Adventure to St Kilda
Baltic island hopping
Tried & tested
Solo across the Pacific
Winterise a motorboat
Standing rigging
The Flying Fifteen
Force for change?
Fitting a PVC gunwale
Galley sink improvement
Mast fit and upgrade
Sports cruiser mods
Wiper motor repair
Regional news
News
Decisions…decisions
Impact of vital Atlantic current collapse
What will the Gibraltar Agreement do?
Second chance to comment on Personal Locator Beacon registration
Top award
Channel-hop made easy
‘Let someone know boat plans’ says report into fatal man overboard incident
Safety lines save life of solo Mini Globe Race sailor after MOB
Outboard safety alert
Imray charts and books – from Vienna
ARC Live and ARC Radio for ruby year
DIARY DATES
AI-assisted Shipping Forecasts
Successful first sea trials for Spray
Lifeboat production
New ownership
Regional news
Harbour reopening
Scuttled dream
Marina injury
100 day appeal
Ruby festivities
Navigational hazard
Big weekend
Fisher survey
Steering challenge
Paper charts
Legendary boats
Dinghies
Channel hopping
Trailer sailer
SEADOG OF THE MONTH
Win an OLAS tag MOB rescue device
Orca behaviour
Keep fit
Happy memories
Bligh-ted reputation
Trawling the literature
Not a day for boating
Boats for Scandinavian cruising
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hallberg-Rassy 36
Hanse 400
Albin Ballad
Najad 331
BayCruiser 26
Maxi 1000
The spirit of sailing
Specifications (approx)
Three women and their wooden boats
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Musto EVO Autumn/Winter 2025
Sulnox Eco fuel conditioners
New gear
Tow bar electrics circuit tester
Zhik Daybreaker midlayer jacket and salopette
NEWS IN BRIEF
2026 Cruising Almanac
GRUNT! boat cleaner
Super Stainless cleaning gel
WHAT TO WEAR WHEN SAILING...
DINGHIES
DINGHIES
My go-to garment
YACHTS & MOTORBOATS
LITHIUM BATTERIES latest safety advice
How to respond to a thermal runaway
Time to simplify the Beaufort Scale?
Time to simplify the Beaufort Scale?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Installing mock teak fendering
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Prepping the hull
Placing the strip
Tidying up
Sailing on sunshine
How to winterise your motor boat
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STEP BY STEP
Mast refit and upgrade
Understanding rigging failure + HOW TO PREVENT IT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CASE STUDY: RIGGING FAILURE IN THE CARIBBEAN
CHECK IT, TUNE IT, TRUST IT: A SMARTER APPROACH TO RIGGING HEALTH
Sports cruiser modification
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Creating a deeper transom door
Wiper motor repair
Practical projects
Making more noise in fog
Solo across the Pacific
Solo across the Pacific
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LESSONS LEARNED
Expert comment
Riddle of the corroding rails and boats
Ask the experts
An adventure to St Kilda
Cruising notes
Getting to St Kilda, the Western Isles and the west of Scotland
Sketchbook
at PressDisplay
Newspapers from United Kingdom
Newspapers in English