Clean up a lifebuoy

Sharing your boating thoughts and opinions

You don’t have to be loaded to get into boating as Glen Stanford discovered after a chance encounter with a boat-owning colleague

Rather than shell out for a new engine, Charles Beddingfield decides to give his motorboat’s old BMC 1.8 diesel some much-needed love

Delivery skipper Ben Lowings explains how you can make your yacht handle better and perform more effectively when cruising

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None of us plans to be caught in a gale, but if it happens then both the boat and the crew must cope. Jake Kavanagh speaks to Jester Challenge skippers and asks how they get ready for stormy weather