Wondering what’s new for the Southampton International Boat Show 2026 – here’s what’s new and what to expect The Southampton ...

Classic Boat brings buyers and sellers interested in classic and wooden boats together. Whether you are interesting in buying a yacht, sailing boat or powerboat, enjoy browsing our selection of boats ...

Identifying boats by their sailing rig – the specific setup of their masts and sails – is one of the greatest joys of being near, or out on, the water. Across the classic yacht racing classes it’s ...

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 ...

After a record 20,000 votes were cast from around the world, we can finally reveal the winners of the 2025 Classic Boat Awards… Welcome, once again, to the annual Classic Boat Awards, now on its 19th ...

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 ...

A Christmas tale might involve sacrifice, survival and the odd miracle, but rarely all three. Dick Durham tells us the story of Lady Daphne in the stormy Christmas of 1927. Full details of the ...

Western Flyer underwent a monumental seven-year rebuild, simply because of historic six-week charter under famous novelist John Steinbeck. Built in Tacoma, Washington, the state-of-the-art seiner was ...

Nigel Sharp and Chris Savage take us on board Shamrock V following her triumphant three-year restoration. She carries this title not just for her beauty and pedigree but because of something utterly ...

In early September, tents and stages filled Washington State’s Point Hudson for the 47th Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. Like a traveling circus, performers, exhibitors, boats and crew traveled ...

American builder Century Boats, on the eve of its centenary, remains little known in Europe, but has always produced boats of the highest quality, like this Sea Maid 18. Century Boats was founded in ...