Changing the boat’s rig from a ketch to a schooner didn’t help either, because it meant bolting new fittings through the deck ...

That’s when I was told the cutless bearing was rattling and the cutless bearing housing itself was dezincified and well past ...

Stu Davies shows you how to check and replace an engine’s raw water pump impeller, and explains why it’s an important job ...

Multiple circumnavigators include Bernard Moitessier, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston... and now Practical Boat Owner columnist Dave ...

The ability to soften that slamming motion of a fast boat at sea has been greatly helped with more advanced and compact ...

Accumulative effects of shocks and impacts to boaters using small vessels at high speed or in rough water have been ...

A 2,000-plus mile, station-to-station relay in honour of the National Coastwatch Institution's 30th anniversary year saw ...

Engine maintenance is a mainstay of boat ownership but new technology has enabled the average boat owner to spend more time ...

When things get hairy at sea, you need to be able to reduce sail to suit. Most cruising boats have two or three sets of reef ...

It is certainly easier to find a used boat trailer to fit a hard-chine hull than, for example, a fin-keeled yacht that needs ...

On the way back in, as you do, we put the sails away: we rolled away the headsails (it was a cutter) and lowered the mainsail ...

Fair winds to trailblazing John Guzzwell, who in 1955 completed an unprecedented circumnavigation, aged 29, in a 21ft wooden ...