Practical Boat Owner — January 2018

CLASS ASSOCIATIONS and successful National Sonata and Hunter Impala 28 associations that we set up in the 1970s. Association com ...

BOATS branch system and organised events and rallies. Technical information and advice was given via a printed magazine that als ...

Network (we don’t call ourselves an association) is the only owner group formally recognised by Jeanneau as an official partner ...

able and knowledgeable contributors. New class chairman Rick Locker adds: ‘The SSOA reflects the longevity of the boats themselv ...

on all the models and the history of the Westerly company.’ George summed up by adding that the WOA also publishes a twice-yearl ...

Daysailer with a difference Do you fancy something like a dinghy, only bigger and that won’t tip you in? Then you should conside ...

DRAKKAR 24 After several weeks of waiting for a suitable day, we finally found one and assembled at the Hamble River office of t ...

BOAT TEST launching from a trailer and sailing in shallow water. Full marks here. On the other hand, since a long centreplate sl ...

DRAKKAR 24 Dropping the spinnaker down the hatch forward of the mast is simple enough. There’s plenty of room in the bow compart ...

BOAT SHOW INFO The new London Boat Show promises to pack a punch Yachts, motorboats, RIBS and dinghies PLUS legends from the wor ...

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PRACTICAL Boat owner Barri Hopkins shows how he and engineer Alan Cowper resuscitated a seized motor without spending too much h ...

YANMAR ENGINE REBUILD Yanmar original, we understand – so we guessed it must have been replaced at some time. Unfortunately this ...

PRACTICAL by poking around with screwdrivers and stiff spiral brushes. When the ‘blow’ side of a vacuum cleaner was applied to t ...

YANMAR ENGINE REBUILD had our research on the internet shown that this product had been used successfully in the automotive indu ...

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Practical Boat Owner t http://www.pbo.co.uk 37 ENGINE EXHAUST COLREGS PAINT AND ANTIFOULING Richard Jerram is former UK technica ...

Colin Haines explains how to install a simple voltmeter to check the condition of your engine start battery to make sure it is f ...

Reinforcing a dinghy hull Glass fabrics are ideal for strengthening laminates. David Parker describes using woven cloth to sheat ...

1 Initially it appears that gelcoat had been painted directly on top of the glass fibre lay up. This produced an irregular surfa ...