Loreto Rodriguez, who has written for Practical Boat Owner, has won the Yachting Journalists' Association's Young Journalist of the Year Award for 2026 ...

Sunsail's third annual Funding the Future initiative attracted 85 entries but Paignton Sailing Club's Mums on the Water ...

Starlink has cancelled the popular Global Roam plan and placed a 30-day international roaming limit on its Roam Unlimited plan.

The Wooden Boat Stage 2026 will be delivering a series of talks and demonstrations aimed at encouraging young people to ...

Electric engines in boats are nothing new; in fact, they have been around for over 185 years, ever since German-Russian inventor Moritz von Jacobi demonstrated his 24ft/7.3m passenger boat on the Neva ...

Keeping my boats in various mud berths at Rye, I’ve found that it has always helped to have a grey hull. If you don’t your boat will soon end up grey anyway. Of course, grey is also the preferred ...

Many people are nervous about drying out or taking the ground. After all, boats are supposed to float, not sit on the hard, unforgiving seabed. But you can safely take the ground in almost any boat – ...

As well as taking the ship’s papers and personal papers, list their numbers and dates. For example, if your radio licence expires while you’re away, you could commit a criminal offence by transmitting ...

“The strops on the crane broke and Big C was dropped onto the concrete; it was smashed, causing irreparable damage,” says Andrew Bedwell. “I was a bumbling mess, and everything came out: the grief ...

The lithium-ion battery has enabled so much of the portable tech we take for granted today, from laptops, mobile phones, small VHF handheld radios, portable GPS, to electric cars and bikes. But these ...

From the humble Optimist to the offshore Mini 6.50, Saša Fegić shares his pick of the legendary designs that shaped sailing history. The history of sailing is not just a story of wind and water – it ...

One of the few things you can be certain of is getting old and with it the decline in your abilities to manage a boat. It is inevitable, so learning to live with and adapt to ageing will prolong the ...