On 16 April 1953, the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, launched the Britannia, a vessel that stands as a ...

Sunny, salty, warm, or cold? You'll want to keep your head and face protected while boating with these top sailing caps.

Cockleshell, may well be the oldest surviving Guernsey-built boat and celebrates 100 years since her first launching in ...

The Neil Thompson Boats' Norfolk range may be the gold standard, in many ways - this is your opportunity to own one.

Built in 1958 in Lallows Boatyard, this Dragon Class boat that has been saved from despair in Bristol's Rolt's Yard.

Classic Boat is the magazine for the world’s most beautiful boats. Packed with stunning images, we have the inside stories of the great classic yachts and motorboats afloat today, as well as ...

New solution for ensuring you've selected the right sailing products, with Jimmy Green Marine’s new Custom Build product ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After our overview earlier in 2024, Barry Pickthall busts a few myths and pays tribute to chief Fairey designer Alan Burnard If Charles Lawrence were ever to enter Mastermind, his specialist subject ...

Standing on the dock in HMS Hornet, Portsmouth (now the Gunwharf Quay shopping centre) on Saturday September 8, 1973, to count the 18-strong Whitbread fleet out, no one fully appreciated – least of ...