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Practical Boat Owner, 1 Sep 2026

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Practical Boat Owner, published in English, is a magazine from United Kingdom. Access Practical Boat Owner online on PressReader or download issues to read later. Browse Practical Boat Owner back issues in the archive.

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ArticleHull-deck GRP repairs

Hav­ing sailed the Great Lakes I decided it was high time to deal with one of Soul Rebel’s niggles that had annoyed me since I bought the Cha­par­ral 2550 SX motor cruiser in 2020: a sub­stan­tial gouge in the gel coat on the port stern quarter,...

Hull-deck GRP repairs

ArticleGet you home

With the buzz of the suc­cess­ful and extraordin­ar­ily high-tech Artemis II lunar flyby mis­sion this April, I can’t help reflect­ing on how monu­ment­ally low-tech those early crewed mis­sions of the 1960s and 70s were. Fam­ously, the Apollo 11...

Get you home

ArticleMarked Gear = Safe Gear

Sud­denly, a mile off Dun­ge­ness, there was a big bang and the engine just stopped; it felt like hit­ting a stone wall. We were now ‘anchored’ to a lob­ster pot line.” Ger­ard and Gina Versluis were sail­ing from Dunkirk to East­bourne in their...

Marked Gear = Safe Gear

ArticleBe a UK live­a­board

When we decided to rent out our house for a year to live aboard our 38-year-old Hall­ber­gRassy 352 in the UK, our primary con­cern was the pro­spect of being on the boat dur­ing winter months. I was also con­cerned about com­mut­ing to my part-time...

Be a UK live­a­board