That’s when I was told the cutless bearing was rattling and the cutless bearing housing itself was dezincified and well past ...
Multiple circumnavigators include Bernard Moitessier, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston... and now Practical Boat Owner columnist Dave ...
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 ...
The ability to soften that slamming motion of a fast boat at sea has been greatly helped with more advanced and compact ...
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 ...
Using a trysail also means you can protect your mainsail for longer instead of flogging it as you try to sail in extreme ...
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 ...
Fair winds to trailblazing John Guzzwell, who in 1955 completed an unprecedented circumnavigation, aged 29, in a 21ft wooden ...
Engine maintenance is a mainstay of boat ownership but new technology has enabled the average boat owner to spend more time ...
Looking for a used boat? boatpoint will be holding two shows focussing specifically on the second hand sail and power market ...