Non-slip decks are vital for safe sailing, with a wide range of long-lived, and sustainable coverings available. Jake ...

A weather forecasting app developed especially for sailors. It’s user-friendly and lets you choose between different forecast ...

It is amazing how quickly close-quarters manoeuvring under sail can go awry if there is a moment’s lapse of concentration, ...

You might one day need to sail your boat int a marina without an engine. Rupert Holmes explains useful techniques for boat ...

There are multitudes of sailing knots but, thankfully perhaps, today’s boat owner only needs to learn a few. These are mostly ...

Zoe Barlow and husband Martyn quit their jobs for a liveaboard adventure with their dog, Ralph. They share their tips for ...

The ability to soften that slamming motion of a fast boat at sea has been greatly helped with more advanced and compact designs of shock-absorbing seating, self-adjusting trim tabs and… ...

In most marinas around the UK and Europe, you will see used Beneteau sailboats, an indication of how much this brand has grown over the decades. So how has a humble family firm building wooden fishing ...

Small cruisers, so they say, give pleasure in inverse proportion to their size. ‘The smaller the boat, the more it gets used and the more fun it gives,’ goes the saying. Nowadays we’re spoiled for ...

The previous article in this series (Part 2: Birth of a boat – truing stem and stern) saw the keel set up with stem and sternpost – and not much… ...