Practical Boat Owner – August 2019
CHOOSING THE RIGHT YACHT ➜ I t might be stating the obvious... but the trickiest problems facing a boat buyer are the simplest. ...
BOATS I make no apology for the fact that the first trailer-sailer on my list is a Hunter. David Thomas never designed a dud, an ...
CHOOSING THE RIGHT YACHT ➜ Those looking for a ‘character’ trailer- sailer around the 20ft mark should beat a path to Rock in Co ...
BOATS The French magazine Bateaux was responsible for encouraging a new class of entry-level boat to the sport of coastal cruise ...
CHOOSING THE RIGHT YACHT four-berth accommodation; and sold in large numbers. British designer Ian Proctor is most famous for th ...
BOATSBOATS Sizing up for seaworthiness Small yachts are cheap and easy to handle but are they seaworthy enough offshore? Bjorn H ...
David Harding/Sailing Scenes Yacht design ➜ The square–cube law This law can be stated as follows: When an object undergoes a pr ...
Urs Hauenstein/Alamy Bertie Milne BOATS ‘With modern design, small, tough sail boats can be made much more comfortable’ Big boat ...
Yacht design The other side of the coin... Falmouth-based Naval Architect Jack Gifford reckons there’s also something to be said ...
What happened to the small offshore cruiser? A few decades ago, plenty of small boats were designed and built for offshore cruis ...
Yacht design would choose a bigger boat designed with blue-water sailing in mind, such as a Vertue, a Contessa 26, a Twister or, ...
A boats I wouldn’t want to sail offshore and plenty of smaller alternatives I would be happy to. Today’s choices If you want a s ...
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Photos: Nathan Williams/RNLI PRACTICAL The Shannon story Mike Taylor explores the evolution of the RNLI’s latest all-weather lif ...
HOW TO BUILD A LIFEBOATPAGE NAME HERE All lifeboat refi t and repair work was moved to the new factory in 2015, followed by the ...
PRACTICAL for launching. The carriage could then be tilted to enable the lifeboat to slide into the water, or be moved into deep ...
HOW TO BUILD A LIFEBOATPAGE NAME HERE After a final series of trials to evaluate seakeeping and systems performance, the calcula ...
PRACTICAL markets? Dan is cautious about how this could be achieved. “While we could increase output by, say, one or two boats p ...
HOW TO BUILD A LIFEBOATPAGE NAME HERE continuous use in RNLI service,” adds Dan. Elsewhere on the floor, there are other compone ...
A s the maxim goes, wind and tide wait for no one and just outside of the breakwater exists another world. To some boat ownershi ...
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