Like all old boats, Gudgeon has changed a bit over the years. Unlike most, she’s grown 6ft longer too, Nigel Sharp tells us.

The Superyacht Life Foundation’s annual awards, the Honours, was notable for having its first all-female line-up this year.

Jolie Brise’s official historian Clare McComb is more used to celebrating the famous boat from afar. As part of the Royal Ocean Racing Club centenary, she stepped aboard for a sail, and re-established ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even the words ‘laying up’ carry a whiff of melancholy, accompanied as they are by the sound of dry, wind-blown leaves and images of leaden skies. There is also, somehow, an image in the mind’s eye of ...

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 ...

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 ...