Wondering how you should be looking after your chainplates? A boatbuilding legend gives us three reasons to paint over them.

If you are new to sailing, or can cast your mind back to your early boating days, you’ll know the difficulty of getting to grips with niche nautical terms and, quite literally, learning the ropes.

His exploits are legendary. We catch up with national treasure Sir Robin Knox-Johnston following another, well-deserved, accolade.

The most important naval officer you’ve never heard of – Greenvile Collins, yacht captain and hydrographer – worked for three ...

Wondering how to upgrade your boat, but don't want to do a full refit? Here's an expert guide for replacing your sails and ...

His new book, Master & Cartographer – A Life of Greenvile Collins, the Man who Charted Britain and Helped Change the Course ...

The North West OGA has a brilliant summer season of racing planned - here's the Old Gaffers events schedule for this area.

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 ...

The Duchy 25 from Cockwells is a development of the popular 27, but the new baby in the range is powered by an outboard and ready to hit the roads.

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 ...

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 ...