Like all old boats, Gudgeon has changed a bit over the years. Unlike most, she’s grown 6ft longer too, Nigel Sharp tells us.

The Superyacht Life Foundation’s annual awards, the Honours, was notable for having its first all-female line-up this year.

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 ...

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 ...

As part of the Royal Ocean Racing Club centenary, Clare McComb stepped aboard for a sail, and re-established a century-old family link.

Brightwork gleamed in the last rays of summer as 13 boats gathered for the Beaulieu River Wooden Boat Association’s autumnal ...

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 marvel of engineering? Or a horror lurking below the steps? Two men with more than 120 years of experience run us through the basic checks needed on a four-stroke marine diesel. A hard-working ...

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 ...

In the end I didn’t need the alarm; the gathering roar of engines coming in with the cool pre-dawn air through the open window cut me out of my dreams with an almost military sense of purpose. I rose, ...

Standing on the dock in HMS Hornet, Portsmouth (now the Gunwharf Quay shopping centre) on Saturday September 8, 1973, to count the 18-strong Whitbread fleet out, no one fully appreciated – least of ...