Practical Boat Owner - June 2018
Portishead Quays This is one of the best equipped marinas in the South West and superbly located for visiting Bristol’s historic ...
SEAMANSHIP O ceans of print have been expended on how to get by in bad weather. The best course of action will depend on your bo ...
HEAVY WEATHER SAILING oilskins are reinforced. Down below, you need a back strap to lean against when working at the galley, and ...
A fter a five-year refit, including a rig-change from ketch to brigantine schooner (PBO August 2017), it was time for Britannia ...
is a great advantage when testing a boat’s refurbished systems for the first time. We decided to go ashore for dinner, so I atta ...
promptly pulled it all through the fairlead. Paul had not tied it to the boat properly and only swift action by Kati with anothe ...
As I was about to row the diver back I decided to give the outboard one more yank, and behold it fired and propelled me to the s ...
I n many ways, the 1990s were a good time for me: I had a nice terraced house within commuting distance of London; a great job e ...
The skiff as she looked when first built Nic’s venerable skiff is loved by the whole family – here it’s pre-restoration It took ...
the depressing housing estates, there was a small oasis: a muddy creek where I moored my yacht. Here, the skiff was moored along ...
her performance under sail and oar. I consulted the designer and, to my surprise, he was very relaxed about the idea. He agreed ...
Refurbishing the skiff (^1) This was the brutal part: slicing the old thwart into flapjack-width chunks with a circular saw, and ...
9 I managed to get some lovely 1in-thick Columbian pine (Douglas fir) from a local sawmill which I cut into shape for the new th ...
21 As the dinghy is continually being dragged up and down a rocky foreshore, I fitted^1 ⁄ 2 in brass keelbands on the whole keel ...
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Russell Eden made a new cap for his Cornish Yawl’s mizzen mast S torm Eleanor hit the south- west of England during the early ho ...
(^9) A perfect match. Just a few minutes’ work with some fine sandpaper around a sanding block and the new cap looked really goo ...
Brothers Oloff and Muir de Wet spent five years building their own aluminium boat, learning welding and construction techniques ...
Metal gurus: Oloff and Muir de Wet enjoying life aboard their self-built aluminium yacht Ongemak With her name on the hull, mast ...
Ultimately, the decision on whether to build or not to build comes down to this: build a boat because you want to build a boat, ...
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