CB's resident gaff whisperer Tom Cunliffe has launched an ‘online sailing club’. The cost is just £15 per year. New content is published monthly and members get “access to an ever-increasing range of illustrated articles on sailing adventures, lively

British Marine has announced that the Southampton Boat Show will take place from 10-19 September in 2021. The announcement is seen as a boost for the industry after the 2020 show was cancelled and a replacement event, Boats2020, was stopped at the 11

IN ASSOCIATION WITH Welcome once again to the annual Classic Boat Awards in association with Classic Marine, where we celebrate the best in the sometimes unsung world of classic and traditional boatbuilding and restoration. The pages that follow feat

Some things never change. Whatever it is you’re sailing, if you’re a fly on the bulkhead of the mess room you’ll hear the hands grousing about the ship. They’ll complain about the food, the skipper, the designer, the owners and throw in a few choice

History might come to record 2020 as the year of Covid 19, but in boatbuilding terms, it’s been a vintage year. At most yards, work continued all summer long, without any pesky owners halting work with funny ideas about sailing, so the shortlist for

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Although one could call Pieter van der Aa a master at many trades, everything he does has one thing in common: wood. He imports and sells exotic woods from South America while as an artisan carpenter he is responsible for a wide scope of projects ran

Nathanael Herreshoff might have professed to dislike the schooner rig, but the few remaining examples are held in great esteem and affection by classic yacht lovers around the world, none less so than the 108ft (33.5m) steel-hulled Mariette, a famili

The lineage of the S&S yawls can be easily traced straight back to the first of the breed, the legendary Dorade of 1930, probably the most successful ocean-racing yacht of all time. Today, there are more S&S yawls afloat at the smart regattas of the

Moving from the curvilinear deck-scape of a yacht characterised by a dipping sheer and cambered decks, it’s disappointing to find the interior fitted out like a packing crate, with straight edges and flat surfaces unrelieved by shapes more sympatheti