Lallows on Isle of Wight reaches 158 years, and is best known for S&S racers, including Ted Heath’s Morning Cloud II.

Is anything more satisfying than the crisp right angle of a well-cut mitre joint? Robin Gates takes a look at the Marples No ...

Carl Richardson pays a visit to the upper Thames and discovers a wooden world full of good people, good vibes and hot ...

New Sprit of Tradition designs from Rockport Marine and Stephens Waring, and a collaboration between Stephen Jones and Jonty ...

Yard news from Edinburgh, Scotland... the Camper & Nicholson royal barge that has served as a tender to Britannia is being restored, and that's ...

Tom tells us of some unsung heroes of the classic boat and heritage community, and old friends in the sailing world.

Eric Tabarly’s ever-green Whitbread maxi Pen Duick VI never won a round-the-world yacht race… until now, when she was first over the line in the recent Ocean Globe Race. The skipper this time was his ...

I hoist the mainsail with the mooring lines still tied. A few curious faces peer over the railings. “Is that a Folkboat?” says an old fella’ with a bag of chips. “Where you off to?” “France!” I say.

150 years ago, John ‘Rob Roy’ MacGregor started the sports of canoeing and kayaking, and had a big influence on the small cruising yachts that would follow Happy birthday the sport of kayaking. You ...

Since the earliest lifeboats in the late 1700s, up until the 1920s, most ‘service boats’ of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution were sail-and-oar designs. The use of sails extended the range of a ...

A tour of wooden boatbuilding in Norway, meeting the old hands and next generation keeping centuries old skills alive. “Above all, it’s about preserving the intangible cultural heritage,” Tore ...

The Folkboat and all the variants of it, from sisterships to distant cousins, enjoy a unique place in the world of classic boats. You don’t have to go far to meet a fan; the further you sail on one, ...