Practical Boat Owner – June 2019
Calypso’s saloon– the trick to small spaces is organisation and cosiness We bought Calypso, a fi breglass 1984 Hans Christian/Un ...
We use about 2.5gal water per day, so even if it never rained (it always does) we are self-sufficient for about two months. Our ...
Vira Demir, tucked away in Selimiye Village boasts boutique hospitality, a private beach, a seaside restaurant and breathtaking ...
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top tips for inland cruising Roger Harper turns his 60 years of cruising experience into a handy guide for waterways and canal c ...
CANAL JOURNEYS Cleats, bollards and bits When I moor, I much prefer to take my mooring ropes to an established mooring point and ...
CRUISING ONBOARD EQUIPMENT Batteries Batteries are a constant curse on any boat; there are times, especially while ‘off grid’, w ...
CANAL JOURNEYS Roger Harper is a retired engineer who learned to sail at the age of four and has owned a dozen different sail an ...
Composite teak This teak composite decking material looks like the real thing, but is made of 90% recycled material and is expec ...
Anti roll stabiliser So called fl opper stoppers have long been valued by cruisers seeking to reduce the amount their boat rolls ...
PRACTICAL Beneath the flawless façade... The high gloss external finish on a superyacht is usually hand applied by a team of tim ...
SUPERYACHT SECRETS A cage of scaffolding is erected closely around the project for easy access, and then shrink-wrapped. The enc ...
PRACTICAL On new builds the steel or aluminium is coated with an epoxy primer, then filled and faired. This involves teams of sp ...
SUPERYACHT SECRETS Superyacht painters nearly always apply the paint with a spray gun, which requires special breathers and full ...
PRACTICAL My policy for painting GRP is guided by two principles. First, the only bit that anyone sees is the top layer of molec ...
SUPERYACHT SECRETS Paint isn’t the only way to customise your boat. Vinyl wrapping has become so good that you can have virtuall ...
T hings had been going too smoothly, so when the boat slowed and I could hear a strange noise coming from the rudder... It was l ...
N BELGIUM FRANCE ENGLAND Ramsgate Dover Calais Boulogne-sur-Mer Boulogne Marina Dungeness Beachy Head Gravelines Cap Gris Nez IN ...
Turning and sheathing the hull Nic Compton follows progress on the home-built Western Skiff B oatbuilding can be a lonely busine ...
BUILDING A WESTERN SKIFF – PART 2 building the fi rst MkII kit, which consists of all the plywood components, plus an MDF buildi ...
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