Practical Boat Owner - July 2018

Contents

Cover: the 32ft Berthon 8-ton Gauntlet Nausikaa –

owned by author Graham Green in the late 1940s –

races past the Dorset coast. Photo by Nic Compton

Welcome to the July 2018 issue

PRACTICAL

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Avoiding collision – page 46

5 Waiting for the tide

6 News

10 Regional news

12 Readers’ letters

14 Dave Selby

16 Sam Llewellyn

18 Andrew Simpson

44 Learning from experience

84 Practical projects

86 Ask the experts

98 Sketchbook

62 Saved from

a watery grave

The story and restoration of

a Dunkirk Little Ship

68 DIY solar-powered

cockpit light

David Moore’s innovative

alternative to trailing cables

70 Fix foam-cored decks

Rupert Holmes tackles spongy

decks – a common problem in

older glassfi bre boats

74 A design evolution

International 2.4mR keelboat

you can build at home

80 Epoxy sheathe a hull

Essential repairs after osmosis

or accidental damage

20 Trailable cruisers

The best new and secondhand

weekenders from 21ft-26ft

26 A transatlantic voyage

you’ve never heard of

The incredible story of a 19th

century fi sherman and his dory

30 What’s in a name?

Rude, tricky or downright silly? The

semantic pitfalls of naming a boat

32 eBay to Rodney Bay

Our cruising couple conclude their

adventures from Portugal to the ARC

38 Notes on a Pacific crossing

Skipper and cook tackle high seas,

huge marlin and the Roaring Forties

46 Avoiding collision

Master the shipping lanes with AIS,

target enhancers and seamanship

52 New Gear

Easy-lower mast, nav apps and SOB

(sunglasses overboard) solution

54 Restless spirit

An ex-soldier’s challenging voyage

from Guernsey to Shetland and back

60 Quieter Broads

Escape the hire boats in these

sleepy backwaters

88 Cruising notes

Round Wales in a Vivacity, bargain

Pacifi c crossing – page 38 cat berths and Kon-Tiki discovery

Alfred ‘Centennial’ Johnson – page 26

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