Simple diy prop puller

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

HOW TO SAIL BETTER

A job done properly first time means you’ll be sailing sooner – with or without the clergy

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

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