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Boats for restoring under £20,000

Duncan Kent picks the best sub-35ft sail and power boats to look for when aiming to undertake a restoration on a budget

IZIBoat: simple sailing

Rupert Holmes sails an innovative catamaran design intended to widen participation in sailing among those with little time to get on the water in more conventional craft

AXOPAR 29

To say the Axopar 28 is a tough act to follow is an understatement - can the Finnish brand's latest iteration offer genuine improvements on its super popular predecessor?

Dominant minimalism

Every yachtsman's a superyacht owner

TREASURE ISLAND

THE IMAGE THAT ROCKED OUR BOAT THIS MONTH

Orca sink yacht in Strait of Gibraltar

Spain's maritime rescue service, Salvamento Maritimo, has reported that a 15m (49ft) yacht sank in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar following interaction with a pod of orca.

Cream tea carnage at sea

The crew's 'scone mad' on a Thames barge

No kill cord or lifejackets were worn during fatal powerboat crash

A kill cord and lifejacket are useless unless worn-that's the warning from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB), following its investigation into a powerboat crash that killed a 32-year-old woman and five-year-old girl on 2 October 2022.

Multihull sail work

Brush up on multihull sailing skills before heading off on charter with Gavin Le Sueur's guide to spinnaker handling, tacking and gybing

DELPHIA 10 SEDAN

If you're happy to trade speed for serenity, Delphia has something that's likely to appeal

PRESTIGE F4

Behind the wheel of a 50ft flybridge cruiser that dares to be different

30 WAYS TO GET AFLOAT

From tall ships to small dinghies, you needn't own a boat to sail. Ali Wood looks at the options, and how skippers can also find crew

LOFOTEN OR BUST PART I

Swedish MBY reader Per Harrtoft fulfills a lifelong dream with a high-speed dash to the remote but beautiful Lofoten islands in the far north of Norway

Seaworthy dinghies for less than £500

For low cost traditionally-styled GRP trailer-sailers, consider the Foreland and the Otter available at bargain basement prices

Playing with coloured sails

Maintaining an hourglass-shaped balloon and ratcheting up the log numbers

Five top causes of engine failure and how to prevent them

Jake Kavanagh talks to Sea Start marine engineer Nick Eales about how to avoid the five major causes of an engine breakdown at sea

Sail the Atlantic with strangers

Would you sail across the Atlantic with someone you've just met? Ali Wood meets the cruising crews who've done just that

RIVA GOES ELECTRIC

Riva made its name building beautiful mahogany sportboats powered by big petrol engines, but the new El-Iseo is powered by an electric motor.

BUYING A USED...FAIRLINE PHANTOM 42

Fairline first introduced its Phantom range half a century ago with the Phantom 32.

WEST COUNTRY GOURMET CRUISE

The promise of a gastronomic tour of the South West coast persuades Gilbert Park's reluctant sailor wife to join him on a summer cruise with a difference

How to rig preventers and boom brakes

Rigging a preventer or using a boom brake is just good seamanship when sailing downwind, but doing so badly is asking for trouble, says Rachael Sprot

I finally found the magic of the sea

I won’t be in theatres with a notebook as much as usual this month – time for some wider, wetter horizons – but may be musing, as I often do, on how rare it is for theatre to express a convincing reality about the oceans and the trade or pursuit of seafaring.

TECHNICAL INSTALLING A NEW ENGINE

When a mysterious loss of coolant jeopardised his sailing, Andy Du Port knew the time had tome to replace his yacht’s:veteran Volvo Penta

HOW IT WORKS MARKING

Many cruising yacht skippers mark very little on board their boats.

NEW GEAR

Dennis O’Neill rounds up the latest marine innovations, including developments in women’s sailing jackets

MARIE TABARLY HONOURING HER FATHER

Marie Tabarly took line honours in the Ocean Globe Race, surpassing her father’s record while racing aboard his famous 73ft ketch Pen Duick VI

HEATHER THOMAS SMASHING RECORDS

In leading her all-female crew to victory in the OGR, Heather Thomas has broken records and taken women's sailing into the stratosphere

FIRST TEST GRAND SOLEIL 42LC

Performance pedigree and Italian panache certainly make for stylish boats, but how do they translate into a serious cruising boat? Theo Stocker tests the baby of the range

MAIDEN MAKES HISTORY AGAIN

Being the first all-female crew to win a round-the-world race is seismic in itself, but the diverse nationalities of the crew are just as significant for the future of sailing

'WE GOT BATTERED BY A STORM THAT WASN'T FORECAST

When David and Sarah Smith decided to take on their first proper ocean passage, they didn’t anticipate storm Oscar, but survived unscathed and relished the experience