When communication was slow and difficult, small yards were served by local smiths who took note of individual preferences ...

From genre-splicing refits to exciting new designs, the future of motorboating looks warm, bright and surprisingly fast. Here ...

Robin Gates reminds us of the handy Kent Axe - a traditional boatbuilder's tool growing in interest again ...

How hard could restoring a 1960 S&S sportfisher possibly be? Loughborough Marine Interests (Rhode Island) took on the mamoth ...

The waters around Barcelona were once again filled with top-tier racing last weekend for the Puig Vela Clàssica 2025... Here ...

The world’s most famous yacht race is a century old. Barry Pickthall, who has covered every race for 50 of those years, takes up the story. This year’s Fastnet Race from Cowes to the Fastnet Rock and ...

Together with HMS Victory’s Master Shipwright Leonardo Bortolami, we look at some common questions about the project and unpack some myths.

Steffan Meyric-Hughes travels to Suffolk to take a look at some of the exciting projects underway at Waldringfield Boatyard… Dragging the Spike Crew along on yard visits was becoming a habit, and a ...

In the mid-1960s, amid a world split between wood and glassfibre, a new boat in build in Finland would change sailing forever - Norseman.

A visit to the River Deben and Woodbridge Boatyard reveals some exciting treasures, Steffan Meyric Hughes discovers.

The J-Class has been central to the legend of classic yachts from the start, but their smaller sisters, the Ps and Qs, are on the rise in a big way these days, Craig Davis tells us. The builders and ...

Two female students from the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis are crafting the first entirely British wood boats.