Practical Boat Owner - July 2018
TRAILER SAILERS NEW BOATS Cornish Shrimper 21 The Shrimper 21 offers additional space and refinement over its smaller sister, th ...
BOATS Drascombe Drifter 22 Another old favourite, the Drifter 22 will be making a comeback shortly at Drascombe, complete with a ...
TRAILER SAILERS Corsair 760 If you’re looking for speed and exhilaration under sail then Corsair Marine’s latest trailerable tri ...
BOATS Boat LOD Beam Cornish Shrimper 21 6.40m 2.40m Drascombe Drifter 22 6.70m 2.25m Bay Cruiser 23 6.98m 2.36m Sedna 24 7.30m 2 ...
TRAILER SAILERS Draught Weight Sail area Keel Motor Sail plan New price* Used price 0.57-1.35m 2,000kg 23.60m² Centreboard 6-8hp ...
VOYAGES A transatlantic voyage you’ve never heard of In 1876 a fisherman from Massachusetts embarked on a remarkable solo voyage ...
ALFRED ‘CENTENNIAL’ JOHNSON widely known. I first came across it in a book on the mantelpiece of a holiday cottage not far from ...
VOYAGES a gaff cutter rig with a centreboard added to aid windward performance. Pig iron secured in the bilge was added to balla ...
ALFRED ‘CENTENNIAL’ JOHNSON Amazingly the mast and spars have also survived. Gaff-rigged, the boat’s full canvas was a mainsail, ...
COMMENT I f you’ve ordered a new boat, she’ll require a name. But what? At the very least it must surely have some sort of meani ...
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Liveaboards Pete and Jan Dearden face high seas and a broken autopilot on a dramatic but thrilling Atlantic crossing S ix years ...
EBAY TO RODNEY BAY under full sail we made headway towards Porto Santo. I discovered we’d taken on water, so we bailed out the r ...
CRUISING no resemblance to the picture before us. A maze of multi-coloured lights masked the markers and container ships anchore ...
EBAY TO RODNEY BAY spinning around in circles. My stomach churned as I prayed it was only the drive belt that had failed. The mo ...
CRUISING that it was always the gearbox that failed, not the motor. The ARC+ was due to set sail the next day but we felt we nee ...
EBAY TO RODNEY BAY crossing the Channel, and none with the ferocity of the one we now faced. By the time I was in the cockpit th ...
Mel Parish relives his encounter with the Roaring Forties and a monstrous marlin on a double-handed voyage to French Polynesia N ...
PACIFIC LOGBOOK ➜ Stunning destination: Raivavae Island in the Austral islands of French Polynesia is a long way off the beaten ...
CRUISING Friday 24 February Wind 8-24 knots 170^0 T, COG 088^0 T The day started OK with light winds and nothing much to report, ...
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