We took a look around the newly launched Spirit P50 Sport - here's everything you need to know about this 'progressive' ...

211ft three-masted schooner will traverse the globe offering bespoke private charters, bluewater transatlantic crossings, and ...

If you are new to sailing, or can cast your mind back to your early boating days, you’ll know the difficulty of getting to grips with niche nautical terms and, quite literally, learning the ropes.

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 ...

The Classic Yacht Symposium 2026 gathered in Helsinki, Finland, this spring for the 13th edition of this premier international event. Continuing it’s mission is to celebrate the history, design, and ...

Spirit of Tradition boats are a fast growing part of the yachting world, but the J Class revival has been something to behold. Andre Hoek, Gerard Dykstra, and Paul Spooner are Spirit of Tradition ...

The diminutive island of Bermuda gives its name to today’s most common rig, but it was once deemed only suitable for small vessels, says Martin Black. I recently acquired this image. Judging by the ...

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 ...

Standing on the dock in HMS Hornet, Portsmouth (now the Gunwharf Quay shopping centre) on Saturday September 8, 1973, to count the 18-strong Whitbread fleet out, no one fully appreciated – least of ...

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 ...

Hillyards are among the most maligned of all classic, wooden yachts, and I say this as a former co-owner of one, the 1932 9-ton aft cockpit Billy Blue, writes Steffan Meyric Hughes. They are perhaps ...

Photos from a brilliant night celebrating the nominees, highly commended and winners – here is the Classic Boat Awards 2026 gallery. It’s that time of the year – the time where the classic boat world ...