From J Class' to One Designs, here's a guide to all the different classic racing classes and how boats are rated.

The broker's view on health of the market, the patterns, prices and challenges they are seeing, and what advice they would ...

The owner of Lockheed, Michael O’Brien, tells us about her restoration work and new electric propulsion – “a full wooden boat restoration with a very modern heart”. Like many would-be buyers, Michael ...

Tom Cunliffe takes a pal on a short spiritual journey through the beautifully crafted wooden boats at Southampton Boat Show. Back in September I was ...

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 ...

She caused a stir in Ramsgate in May 2025, freshly restored and part of the fleet gathered for the five-yearly crossing to Dunkirk. You really ought to go and have a look at Quisisana, they said.

What you need to know about Operation Dynamo, and the so called 'Dunkirk Little Ships' and their crews, who made the 'Dunkirk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eric Tabarly’s ever-green Whitbread maxi Pen Duick VI never won a round-the-world yacht race… until now, when she was first over the line in the recent Ocean Globe Race. The skipper this time was his ...

Nigel Sharp tells us of the fascinating story behind four major refits on the world’s sole surviving 23-M yacht. Cambria was designed and built for Sir William Berry (later Lord Camrose) by William ...

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.