Anchoring short-handed: How to safely drop and retrieve the hook with minimum crew
Seasickness: Why it happens and how to stop it
PBO Tested – MOB beacons: Personal AIS devices to save your life
Swift passage-making: Top tweaks for efficient sailing
Tips to manoeuvre in tight spaces: Close-quarters techniques picked up at the helm of a heavy-displacement ketch
Building a 4.5m dayboat from scratch: Constructing a Navigator from plans
Replacing bearings in a masthead unit: Changing the bearings in the wind speed spinner saves £100
New cockpit seats in synthetic teak: Replacing the tatty slatted seats in a Contessa 26
Reader tips for simple fishing at sea: Securing something to eat on board other than the time-honoured ‘stews’
Moulding a rigid sprayhood in GRP: Replacing a canvas sprayhood with a home-made GRP one
PBO Tested – Fast, French, fun, functional: The RM890: an easy-to-handle performance cruiser
Stranded 25 yards from shore: How a reader’s late-summer sail ended in a cold, wet and dangerous ordeal
Novice Day Skipper sets sail: PBO’s Laura Hodgetts charters a yacht around the Sporades and Gulf of Volos
Sailing with the under-fives: How to make sailing with young children as safe, simple and enjoyable as possible
Rebuilding a mast step: Refurbishing a compressed, water-damaged mast step
Wind turbine replacement: and manufacturing a new rudder, PLUS more reader projects and tips
Deal with cabin condensation: Hints and tips from the PBO Sketchbook
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Waiting for the tide: The editor’s welcome to this month’s PBO – sign up for PBO’s free monthly e-newsletter at: http://emails.timeincuk.co.uk/YBW_webcross
‘Mad about the Boat’ columnist Dave Selby: Ohm improvements
Columnist Sam Llewellyn: Knowing when to give up
Monthly musings from Andrew Simpson: Keeping an aye on the job
PBO products and services: Books and plans from the PBO Shop
News: A dramatic Round the Island race, floating containers, countdown to Rio… and more
Regional news: Suspected people smugglers arrested, yacht mast hits power lines… and more
Readers’ letters: Your views
Ask the experts: Stripping a Colnebrook furling gear, and more reader queries answered
New gear: PBO looks at the latest marine products
LED and laser flares tested
LED and laser flares claim to replace pyrotechnic flares on board: but how do they compare with a traditional flare…
Best forward-looking sonar: 5 units tested
How effective is forward-looking sonar at flagging up shoals and obstacles on the seabed? David Pugh compares the findings from…
Ask the Experts: repairing a Westerly Oceanranger
A reader's question about survey and corrosion gets answered by one of PBO's experts
Ask the Experts: Passerelle problem
A reader's question about med mooring gets answered by PBO's experts
Ask the Experts: Yanmar starting quandary
A reader's question about engines gets answered by one of PBO's friendly experts
Cooking on board – two tasty recipes
Chef David Wells shares two recipes to show how tasty, inventive dishes can be prepared on just one or two…