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Boater's biplane rescue at air show
A powerboater and her family sprang into action when a biplane crashed into Poole Harbour on the south coast, narrowly missing yachts, rocks and a chain ferry.
Beachcombing
Searching out landing stages and boat noosts
How To Replace Worn Rudder Bushes
Hedley Ritchie shows how he changed the wobbly bushes on his transom-hung rudder to improve his Westerly Konsort’s steering
Whale-watching in Quebec
Liveaboards Belinda Chesman and Kit McAllister mix culture with cetaceans as they cruise Canada’s great St Lawrence river
Remote paddling
The simplest vessels are so often the best
Mind how you go
It’s time to exorcise those mystic influences
Inland innovation
Wilf Lower relives a European inland adventure
Up a creek with no water to paddle
Mike Humphreys calls on his ingenuity and practical skills to rescue a family marooned on a mud bank by the falling tide
Small boats, big cruising
Rupert Holmes describes a selection of very capable small boats for cruising on a budget
God vakt!
Marsali Taylor recalls every detail of a day aboard the tall ship Sørlandet off the coast of Norway
Boat Electrics 101 course review
Nigel Calder and his team of marine electrics experts have hit the mark, says Rupert Holmes
Viking adventure
Sam Griffiths and his dad camp out under the stars in a 12ft dinghy to enjoy the delights of an historic German waterway
Red herring
Seaspiracy is righteous rather than right
Restoring Andromeda
Clive Robertson swaps a London media career for four years in a boatyard and restores a wooden gaffer from scratch
Steam-bending a new toe rail
Greg Manning shows you how to laminate and steam a plank so that it can be to be bent across its width
The right look
Peter Poland tests the second-hand Swedish production powerboat that just looks ‘right’ to so many ex-sailors
Fleeing a volcanic eruption
Kia Koropp and family up-anchor and grab their face masks when a cloud of black ash descends on the Grenadines
Make or break situation
How you can get snookered when sailing
Old gaffer to Ushant
Max Liberson suffers concussion, ghostly apparitions and crew desertion on a tiring voyage to France
Fitting a new water tank gauge
Measuring your boat’s water capacity is essential for any cruiser, yet is surprisingly hard to get right, discovers Roger Hughes
Fast track to Yachtmaster
When Covid scuppers Josh Lindley’s gap year, he takes on a demanding 5-month sailing course instead to qualify as a skipper
Weather forecast models and apps
Rupert Holmes unpicks the tech behind the data that underpins all weather apps and highlights his favourite software
Short-handed harbour manoeuvres
Øyvind Bordal has some tips for single- and double-handers
Reach for the pie
A new year: how to get fighting fit for sailing
The long port tack to Antigua
Hermione Pattison’s family endures a tough passage when they leave the US on a tumultuous 1,600-mile beat to windward
Becoming a boat owner
Scott Opie buys a £1,300 trailer-sailer and discovers the ups and downs of sailing
The gospel...
Anyone can find themselves out of their depth
Shipwrecked in a 12ft keelboat
Despite a sinking off Portugal, French sailor Yann Quenet hasn’t been put off his microyacht circumnavigation dreams. John Jameson reports
For the simple pleasure of sailing
Looking for performance, elegance and impeccable manners from a weekender? Then the Rustler 33 is your sort of boat, says David Harding
Low-tide checks
Spring tides offer the chance to check out what lies beneath the usual low water mark