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

Can you protect your boat in UK waters using foul-release coatings, ultrasonic or biomimetic technology? Rob Melotti investigates

George Dent explains how a layered approach to weathering has given a pair of Rapido’s excellent BR Fish vans a suitably lived-in appearance.

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

When Ozzie’s ‘Collie nose’ diagnosis scuppered his dinghy sailing days, Gary Hardy built a kit cuddy boat to get his crew back afloat

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