We review another packed summer as the classic boat community gears up for a busy regatta season. How to plan your summer ...

The Universal Rule introduced by Nathanael Herreshoff in 1902 was characterised by narrow beams and long overhangs and today stands for beauty, strength and performance. Falcon, an original Q Class ...

From J Class' to One Designs, here's a guide to all the different classic racing classes and how boats are rated.

The broker's view on health of the market, the patterns, prices and challenges they are seeing, and what advice they would ...

Tom Cunliffe takes a pal on a short spiritual journey through the beautifully crafted wooden boats at Southampton Boat Show. Back in September I was ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Article taken from the August issue (CB314). To subscribe to CB, click here. I launch my dinghy into the wide river. Swinging around the end of the slipway, she enters the full force of the current. I ...

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 ...

Tom Cunliffe tells us of the west Coast of Ireland’s history and being guided to safety by a man in a curragh… Being guided into a remote island anchorage in half a gale on the west coast of Ireland ...