Sadly the race around the Ile de Bréhat had to be abandoned when the wind died soon after the start, and the fleet was then ...

Here’s some photos from last year’s Eggemoggin Reach Race, and what we’ve got to look forward to. Eggemoggin Reach Race 2025.

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 ...

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 ...

His exploits are legendary. His fitness regime is tobacco, whisky and salt air. We catch up with national treasure Sir Robin Knox-Johnston following another, well-deserved, accolade. For a man who has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The clinker-built Stella boats have found the elixir of eternity: it’s a cocktail of glassfibre and epoxy, Nigel Sharp tells us. For every joyous and triumphant restoration featured in Classic Boat ...

There were some historical wins at last summer’s Cannes Régates Royales, with some boats taking clean sweep victories, Nigel Sharp reports. At the end of September last summer the Régates Royales in ...

Sixty-five tonnes of sailing barge is more fun without an engine, as countless people have discovered aboard the Thames barge Blue Mermaid, Nigel Sharp reports. It all seemed so effortless. We were ...

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 ...