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Will Stirling’s global adventure continues - Wildly challenging Alaskan plan to sail and climb lived up to expectations...

Loch Lomond is an extraordinary one-off built by an ocean-racing legend, and these days acts as a regatta spectator launch.

Albert Strange Association ready for AGM weekend in Scarborough, 1st March - where Strange lived designing, while running ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

About a quarter of a century ago, Keith McIlwain ended a brief career as a sailmaker when he was “seduced into the world of sales and marketing” and then entered the wine business. In September 2013, ...

The classic sailing scene continues to prosper around the established centres of the Solent, East Coast, West Country and further. This summer sees the return of the Richard Mille Cup, the 8-M Worlds, ...

“Let’s build back better.” Although that slogan has been used and paraphrased by several political groups and individuals – perhaps most notably Joe Biden – it was also recently adopted by the team ...