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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From being a Seine houseboat for over 20 years, Amazone was taken to Le Havre and transported to Falmouth on the 214M DYT semi-submersible Yacht Servant. Now in Pendennis Shipyard, it seems this ...

Over the last two months we have celebrated the 34th running of the America’s Cup by looking at one of its unsung heroes – the ruthless British captain, Charlie Barr, who successfully defended the Cup ...

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.