Former leading music industry photographer and video director Steve Payne regales us with an engaging and entertaining tale of plying the French canal system aboard his Birchwood motor yacht on a mission to reach the alluring waters of the Mediterranean.

Giovanni Fasanelli investigates the ambitious deep-sea project Ocean Census and how it’s set to uncover a veritable ‘treasure trove’ of medicinal and other priceless resources held deep within our planet’s oceans – resources we need to save … Imagine there

Mark Featherstone turns an unfortunate incident into a learning opportunity as he discovers that there’s a whole lot more to rope than you might think. The phrase ‘money for old rope’ comes from the days when old rope was picked

HMS recounts an excerpt from his account, as published in the latest edition of the global best-seller Heavy Weather Sailing, of the occasion when on passage from Newport to Killybegs, he and a flotilla of RIBs faced a westerly gale

Malcolm Thomas makes a visit to his local lifeboat station on the River Hamble to find out more about this famous indie operation as well as the challenges facing our independently funded lifeboat stations across the UK … On 25th

HMS interviews Erkki Talvela, CEO of XO Boats, and discovers how and why manufacturing in aluminium is proving so successful for this Finnish brand. How many years have you served as CEO, Erkki, and how would you say the company

TMS travels to Florida to gain first-hand insight into the iconic site that is Lake X and its extraordinary history. Among the many outstanding locations synonymous with the development and testing of the motor car, the Bonneville Salt Flats, Brands

PBR’s marine biologist, Giovanna Fasanelli, provides a fascinating insight into the global comings and goings of great white sharks, revealing where their existence is being threatened and why our oceans so need this prehistoric predator. Meeting of majesty Cape Town,

Nikki Drummond reports on the recent 2022 Coniston Power Boat Records Week and its truly eclectic array of contenders and steeds, all vying for the honour of achieving a coveted title upon Coniston’s historic, record-breaking waters.     The first

HMS interviews 22-year-old Ben Jelf following his recent Formula 2 championship win and successes at the Coniston Records Week. How did he chart his route to success and in what ways does this young champion see the sport evolving? Let’s

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