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

Clampdown on liveaboards in Las Palmas marina ‘will not affect cruising sailors’

Safety recommendations made after tragic loss of Sonar keelboat sailor

Nature meets technology in European project to restore ocean life

Charter escape

Heritage survey

Flying the flag for maritime heritage

Seagrass showing encouraging signs of recovery in Studland Bay

Electricity works both ways for boats

Ella plans to sail solo round the Arctic

Plea to properly fund the waterways

Concerns over what’s in HVO fuel

DIARY DATES

Regional news • News from your cruising area

Letters • Sharing your boating thoughts and opinions

Not half good • Americans have taken boat upcycling and recycling to another level

A boat by any other name… • Luck, skill, automation, craftsmanship

Bonny big waves • Crew training and a delivery trip provide an exhilarating start to the sailing season

Good landings • A boat that takes the ground provides greater freedom and opens up more safe havens

THE VERY BEST OF BOATING

Anchoring with a shore line • Genevieve Leaper explains why, in some circumstances, using a shore line to keep the boat secure makes perfect sense

ABC of seamanship • Andrew Morton explains the steps he took to make sure he could manoeuvre safely alongside a new jetty in potentially shallow water

Remote control bow-thruster benefits

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New gear • Rupert Holmes previews the latest marine products

Skin fittings and seacocks explained • Surveyor Nick Vass examines different skin fittings and seacocks on the market and shares advice on maintenance

DZR explained • Vyv Cox busts the myths surrounding the use of dezincification-resistant (DZR) seacock materials

Caring for anodes • Tips from the experts at boatcare for checking and replacing anodes

BEGINNERS’ GUIDE TO Power management • After draining her charter boat batteries, Ali Wood realises it’s time to get to grips with batteries

Industry insight • Stuart James of Predator Batteries talks battery technology with Ali Wood and explains why lithium may soon have had its day

How to be more fuel efficient • Jake Kavanagh looks at how the shipping sector saves fuel and how this is filtering down into the leisure motorboat market

DIY enhanced engine monitoring • Rob Ferenczi explains how to build a smart boat engine monitoring system without spending a fortune

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How to become fully inverted • Roger Hughes explains how he installed a powerful new source of silent AC power into his yacht

Check black water pump or risk sinking • Gilbert Park shares lessons learned from a messy job that may have saved his boat during a French cruising holiday

How to bend acrylic • Andy Pag discovers that replacing the curved saloon windows of his Lagoon 410 is far from straightforward

Freeing a seized furling swivel car • Chris Mardon fixes his jammed foresail furling gear

Cutting new teeth • Dick Everitt takes a DIY approach to make multitool blades last a little bit longer

Early mistakes •...