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In the Summer 2017 issue of Practical Boat Owner magazine. here
"The most significant changes include a widening of the approach channel and a change to its route", says the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth Steve Hopper.
Tech should be at our beck and call. Editor David Pugh welcomes you to the latest issue of Practical Boat Owner magazine.
Any number of factors can affect the wind near land on coastal voyages, says Dick Everitt. here
A decision by the MMO to grant a marine licence relating to development in Brighton Marina has been upheld in the High Court following a Judicial Review. here
A TALE OF TWO LIFEBOATS • Wilf Lower reports on the remarkable efforts of volunteers and the Hastings Borough Council to preserve two historic lifeboats here
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PART ONE Buying your next boat • Rupert Holmes explains how to narrow the search and lay the groundwork before buying more
Show boating • A huge number of admirers turned out at the Southampton Boat Show to see the PBO project boat for themselves. Rob Melotti reports
The errors of the deep • What lies beneath… a dropped winch handle joins a host of other seabed-dwelling objects
Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Practical Boat Owner is Britain's biggest-selling boating magazine, trusted and respected by all its readers. A source of useful and helpful information for both power and sail boat owners, PBO helps you get the most from your boat acting as a forum for interacting with like-minded individuals.
New Gear • Rupert Holmes gets to grips with clutch systems [links]
Seabird families breeding in the UK here
Twin keel performers • Don’t be fooled into thinking twin keels means stodgy performance – some can really fly, says Peter Poland more
Building a Béniguet • Nic Compton is introduced to the Béniguet, a sensible trailer-sailer that can be built from a kit Ð and then he shows how she's constructed more
Cosy in the cabin • Ben Meakins upgrades the diesel cabin heater on his 28ft Impala [links]
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When offshore sailor Tony Curphey finished his solo circumnavigation in 308 days he didn’t just complete the Longue Route, but also entered the record books. At 74 he is now the oldest person to have sailed solo around the world non-stop and unassisted. He takes the record from the 73-year-old French winner of the 2018-19 Golden Globe Race, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede. The former lorry driver and Merchant Navy seaman left Emsworth in Chichester Harbour in his Nicholson 32, Nicola Deux on 24 June 2018, returning on 27 April 2019. “I was happy the Longue Route was not a race,” said Curphey. “I just enjoyed being at sea and the main thing was just completing the Longue Route and making it back to Emsworth.” The Longue Route was Curphey’s fourth solo circumnavigation. Initially he’d… more
Minoru Saito The Japanese offshore sailor claimed the oldest person to sail around the world non-stop and unassisted title in 2005 following his seventh circumnavigation at the age of 71 in his 56ft 1989 steel-hulled cutter-rigged sloop, Nicole BMW Shuten-Dohji III. At the age of 77, the BOC Challenge veteran also completed a solo circumnavigation, westabout, past Cape Horn, with stops Jeanne Socrates In July 2013, Jeanne Socrates, 70, became the oldest woman to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. Now 76, she is attempting to become the oldest person to sail solo and non-stop around the world without assistance. Harry Heckel American skipper Harry Heckel was 89 when he completed his 10-year single-handed west to east circumnavigation with stops in 2005 aboard his Dreadnought 32, Idle Queen.… more
Sailors cruising Scotland are being warned to look out for an invasive species from Japan, which could impact on shellfish populations. Schizoporella japonica is an orange-red creature which usually lives 30cm from the water surface. Thin and flakey, it can form in small patches or a continuous crust and in crisp-like lobes. Speaking to PBO, University of Edinburgh marine researcher Dr Jennifer Loxton said Schizoporella japonica was first detected in the UK in 2010. Since then, it has been discovered at one in four marinas and harbours in Scotland, one location in Wales, one in Ireland and three marinas in the Plymouth region. Research is still being carried out to find out how Schizoporella japonica arrived in UK waters, although it is thought it first spread from its native Japan to North America… [links]
The Longue Route isn’t a race, but a pilgrimage to mark the 50th anniversary of Bernard Moitessier’s non-stop voyage from Plymouth to Tahiti, which he sailed after abandoning the 1968-69 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. The event was initially the idea of French-American sailor Guy Bernardin, who went missing at sea in August 2017 while sailing from America to France in the yacht he’d bought to take part in the Longue Route. Participants can choose any yacht as long as it is less than 52ft and suitable for offshore sailing. They have to depart between 18 June 2018 and 30 September 2019, from a port north of 45°N on the European coast or 41°N of the US East Coast, and return to their start port, unless impossible.…