Practical Boat Owner

Scrubbing your bottom

Dave Selby is the proud owner of a 5.48m (18ft) Sailfish, which he keeps on a swinging mooring on the picturesque Blackwater estuary in Essex

Having read PBO’s exhausting Big Antifouling Test (PBO, May 2022) and understood some of it – page numbers, for example – I set to on my Sailfish.

By mid-season the potential of my Sailfish 18 was so impaired that hove-to was its fastest point of

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