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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Identifying boats by their sailing rig – the specific setup of their masts and sails – is one of the greatest joys of being near, or out on, the water. Across the classic yacht racing classes it’s ...

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 ...

Nigel Sharp and Chris Savage take us on board Shamrock V following her triumphant three-year restoration. She carries this title not just for her beauty and pedigree but because of something utterly ...

After rebuilding some of the most famous sailing yachts of all time, how hard could this 1960 S&S sportfisher project possibly be? Joe Loughborough and Steffan Meyric Hughes tell us the story of Grey ...

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 ...