Stephen Meyric Hughes tells us about the cultural lag in the boatbuilding world, and the ever-present Henry the hoover.
The 1911 Zulu Pilot Rely’s circumnavigation continues – we caught up with the crew as they reached Kyle of Lochalsh The 1911 ...
The Vela Clásica Menorca 2026 took place at the end of August, gathering the classic fleet for the 22nd edition. With a fleet ...
The 1889 Edwardian cruiser Enchantress has been saved from the banks of the Thames by Abbey Boat Builder, ready to be brought ...
Classic Boat is the magazine for the world’s most beautiful boats. Packed with stunning images, we have the inside stories of ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 2026 Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, now in its 37th year, welcomed a wonderful range of classic yachts all moored stern to in Antigua’s beautiful, historic Nelson’s dockyard. The classic regatta ...
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 ...
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 ...
Credit: Nigel Sharp and Jeremy Rogers Co. Nigel Sharp on the history and future of Jeremy Rogers’ Contessa 32. He writes: “the opportunity to sail on and write about a brand new Contessa 32 was too ...
Hillyards are among the most maligned of all classic, wooden yachts, and I say this as a former co-owner of one, the 1932 9-ton aft cockpit Billy Blue, writes Steffan Meyric Hughes. They are perhaps ...
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