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Cover: Coastal dayboat from Character Boats sailing
on Ullswater. Photo by Peter ChesworthWelcome to the May 2018 issue
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dayboat – p5 Waiting for the tide
6 News
10 Regional news
14 Readers’ letters
16 Dave Selby
18 Sam Llewellyn
20 Andrew Simpson
84 Practical projects
86 Ask the experts
98 Sketchbook
60 Building a canoe with
vacuum infusion
Jake Kavanagh builds a GRP
canoe using vacuum infusion68 How to rewire a
Cornish Yawl
Improving the look and
organisation of a switch panel72 Make an instrument
console for your boat
Keith Calton made space to
expand his instrumentation76 How to build an
aluminium sloop
Part 2: Oloff and Muir de Wet
fi t a keel and fi ll it with lead82 Leathering oars
David Parker reuses the
leather from some old boots12 Talking point: antifouling
A PBO reader takes a stand against
the illegal disposal of antifouling22 Choosing a daysailer
Duncan Kent picks the best new
and second-hand daysailers on the
market – many of them UK-built28 Canal boat convert
What will you do when you retire
from sailing? Many buy a powerboat,
but what about canal boating?34 eBay to Rodney Bay
Part 1: Pete Dearden describes how
he and his wife, both novice boaters,
became transatlantic cruisers40 Looking ahead to the
Beaulieu Boatjumble
Buy new and second-hand, sell your
own stuff and Ask the Experts LIVE!46 New gear
Honda generator, jackets from Zhik,
ASAP water purifi cation... and more50 Coming alongside easily
Duncan Wells illustrates pontoon
mooring skills for power and sail54 Learning from experience:
freak wave encounter
Rupert Holmes recalls the wave that
came out of nowhere88 Cruising to St Kilda
John Simpson crosses the Sound of
St Kilda’s enormous rock stacks – p88 Harris to the remote bird islandsCanal boat convert – p60