Practical Boat Owner

Beaulieu Boat Jumble 2010

It was great to meet so many PBO readers at the Beaulieu Boatjumble 2010 and even six from France. There's nothing like it across the Channel, they explained and no…

Launching at Warsash 2010

PBO Editor, Sarah Norbury was on hand to watch club members’ boats get craned out of the boat park and into the water for the start of another season

R19 keelboat capsized

PBO boat tester and photographer David Harding was on the water only a few yards off Poole YC. ‘It was fairly breezy and, by the standards of the harbour,…

High Barbaree racing off Lymington, photo Ron Hansom

An estimated half-a-million visitors in July flocked to Brest, Brittany, for the week-long festival of traditional boats, with another week-long event that runs the following week at Douarnenez, along the…

Lowrance Structure Scan image

Views taken from a press trip off Helsinki, where anti-submarine nets left over from the Cold War still litter the sea bed, plus a man-made lake in Oklahoma where trees,…