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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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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, Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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. Read More...

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. Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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. Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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. Read More...