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Without that living link, the 2025 Dunkirk Return is fundamentally different. Now it is incumbent upon those little ships, ...
In the mid-1960s, amid a world split between wood and glassfibre, a new boat in build in Finland would change sailing forever ...
The hurricane of ‘38 wrecked 3,000 boats  – but it also founded the legend of the Concordia yawls, a one-design turned ...
British Classic Week is closing in fast and early-bird entries have now closed... but who can we expect to see at this ...
Steffan Meyric-Hughes takes a trip to Suffolk and catches a glimpse of the latest boatyard projects underway at Fox's Marina.
Sam Heard, like his father and grandfather before him, is in the business of building no-nonsense yachts and workboats in GRP. He’s just built the hundredth Heard 28, and this one’s in memory of his ...
A visit to the River Deben and Woodbridge Boatyard reveals some exciting treasures, Steffan Meyric Hughes discovers. Things can move pretty slowly on the banks of the River Deben. As we visited ...
Robin Gates delves into the world of traditional boatbuilding tools – here’s a everything you need to know about using a Stanley 220 Plane. Hand tools carried to the boat for unexpected repairs and ...
A stormbound marina stuck on shore is all at sea, writes Dave Selby. The curlew’s cry and the seagull’s screech are the pleas of a lonesome wanderer’s tortured soul, but there is no sound in nature as ...
There’s no calling like the sailor’s for rich vocabulary. So many of our day-to-day phrases have passed into the universal vernacular that we’ve lost count. ‘Three sheets to the wind’, ‘taken aback’, ...