Looking for a waterproof sailing bag for all your gear? Here's a selection of our favourite durable and expertly designed ...

Ted Turner, founder of CNN News, a winning America’s Cup skipper and one of the most colourful characters in sailing, passed ...

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 ...

Built Norway 1939 as 6th of 18 Cruiser Racer W Class for KNS. Pitch pine on oak frames 35’ x 8’ x 5’ original interior. Well maintained and in sound condition, recent survey. Winches and runners ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sailing to north Africa provided a rare chance to step off the yacht and into the world of the felucca – Robert Weatherburn tells us of his time sailing in Egypt. A vague shape floated up as if to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francois Vivier is France’s top designer of sail-and-oar boats and historic workboats. CB sailed with him for a day in Morbihan The usual wisdom of designing or building boats is to start small and ...