The RaceWKND junior powerboat race series, run specifically for seven- to 12-year-olds, has in recent years tripled in size and popularity. We head to Finland to report on the championship race and young Sisu Seliö’s resounding GT10 win. At a

Mark Featherstone discusses the complex but fascinating subject of tides and their effect on even high-powered craft. By means of salty tales and some choice facts, Mark demonstrates that tides, like a lot of things in life it would appear,

We join Jonathan and Tom Peers on a grand tour of the Cumbria Lake District as they set about discovering the delights of freshwater adventuring aboard three very different modes of ‘waterborne transport’.  It’s sometimes said that ‘it’s grim up

All the action, thrills & spills of the 2023 Cowes–Torquay–Cowes powerboat race. The annual powerboat event at Cowes once again hit the water over the August Bank Holiday weekend with some 35 boats taking to the water. Amid glorious sunshine, one

PBR correspondent Richard Johnstone-Bryden gets a glimpse of a greener future as he reports on the 2022 Monaco Energy Boat Challenge, and the race teams’ intriguing, sustainable solutions.   The annual Monaco Energy Boat Challenge continues to build momentum with

Upon the completion of arguably the greatest RIB voyage in history, PBR’s HMS & Alex Whittaker gain an exclusive one-to-one interview with trans-ocean RIB adventurer Sergio Davi …  Before we begin, congratulations on a tremendous achievement – truly inspirational for

In the first of our brand-new series ‘Ask the Expert’, world-renowned adventurer, explorer and former SAS reservist Bear Grylls reveals to HMS the principles of survival and why his love of small boats remains undaunted. Bear talking to HMS.

The notion of towing your boat to a Mediterranean island may seem a contradiction in terms, but where there’s a will, there’s a way, as PBR’s sports boating adventurer Alex Whittaker recounts. Cala Mitjana is small but perfectly formed.

In this PBR exclusive, HMS interviews Charles Fawcett, founder and Managing Director of the highly acclaimed automotive brand Twisted, and discovers why he’s convinced marine will be the next big step in Twisted’s iconic journey … Charles Fawcett, Founder

This is the first-hand story of how Tommy Sopwith’s historic 1963 Bertram 31, Thunderstreak, a vessel that has won every race she’s entered since her relaunching, came to be painstakingly restored to her former seagoing glory – a true and

HMS interviews Amy Richards of Freedom Boat Club and learns how this Brunswick-owned initiative, which is proving so popular in the United States, is now beginning to gain popularity and traction here in the UK … Amy Richards of

Could hungry little microbes really help provide an answer to the plastic pollution catastrophe occurring in our seas? International marine biologist Giovanna Fasanelli enlightens us on the activity of these greedy saviours of the sea.  It’s just really complicated

With over 100,000 visitors and six locations, the recent 2022 Miami International Boat Show displayed some of the world’s most impressive powerboats and delivered millions of dollars of business for the global marine trade. TMS headed out in partnership with

With multiple yacht and powerboat sales and over 5,000 people pre-registering for tickets, the 2022 South Coast Boat Show delighted exhibitors, with many already signed up for next year’s event. HMS reports … Here in the UK, the growing popularity

The need to develop more ethically sustainable solutions to power the world’s leisure and light-commercial motorised craft has never been more urgent. Here, in this PBR exclusive, we speak to James Eatwell, the man behind Cox Powertrain’s hydrogen project. Could

International marine biologist and journalist Giovanna Fasanelli takes a fascinating look at the subject of ‘venom in the sea’ and considers both the role it plays and why, as boating people, we should be interested …  Most of us are

Dubai Police are the new UIM XCAT world champions, despite a superb winning finish to the season by Team Abu Dhabi’s Rashed Al Tayer and Majed Al Mansoori in the Dubai Grand Prix, as PBR reports … Team Abu Dhabi

HMS interviews Southampton footballing legend Franny Benali and discovers how his newly discovered love affair with boating and the water came about. His experience will likely strike a chord with many new to boating … Premier Marinastraining day

Alex Whittaker flies to Palermo for an exclusive interview with SERGIO DAVI as he embarks on his cross-Atlantic voyage aboard his 38ft Suzuki powered Nuova Jolly Prince RIB The back lot behind my hotel. Palermo is a place of amazing contrasts.

This summer the electric e-foil brand Fliteboard made history as the first electric-powered watercraft to cross the English Channel. Fliteboard, known as the Tesla of the water, completed the crossing on Thursday 12th August in under two hours. Father-son duo

Many of us with a keen interest in powerboat design are also attracted to the exhilarating experience of high-speed boat driving. Your boat might be capable of going faster than your skills can safely guide it, so here are some

Frank Kowalski, designer and skipper of Safehaven Marine’s Thunder Child II, recounts this vessel’s North Atlantic record run and Arctic Circle voyage – an adventure that encountered towering icebergs, vast ocean vistas, fog banks and mighty dwellers of the deep.

Paul Lemmer provides an insightful round-up of some of the top exhibits at this year’s HSBO 2021 in Sweden, an exhibition where both innovation and high performance are among the merits of many of the best on show. Like many

PBR’s Alex Whittaker attends one of Europe’s most glamorous and important events in the maritime calendar – a show brimming with new products, exciting world launches, and blessed by all things Mediterranean. When your superyacht tender is a helicopter

HMS reports on the 2021 SOUTHAMPTON BOAT SHOW, which not only confirmed the astonishing resurgence of interest we’ve seen in boating post Covid, but also delivered a thoroughly convincing showcase of which the UK marine industry and the show’s organisers