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Loch Lomond is an extraordinary one-off built by an ocean-racing legend, and these days acts as a regatta spectator launch.

Will Stirling’s global adventure continues - Wildly challenging Alaskan plan to sail and climb lived up to expectations...

Albert Strange Association ready for AGM weekend in Scarborough, 1st March - where Strange lived designing, while running ...

Built by Bond in 1981 for Jeremy Buckwell from whom we bought Boomerang in 2016, fibreglass hull with wooden/lead keel. ( Jeremy won the Championship in 1983) 7770mm overall hull, almost new jib by ...

I hoist the mainsail with the mooring lines still tied. A few curious faces peer over the railings. “Is that a Folkboat?” says an old fella’ with a bag of chips. “Where you off to?” “France!” I say.

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 ...

The mood was tense on board Lutine of Helford when I joined her at the start of the last race of British Classic Week series off Cowes last July. There had been a pile up at the start line the day ...

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 ...

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 ...