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 ...

I hoist the mainsail with the mooring lines still tied. A few curious faces peer over the railings. “Is that a Folkboat?” says an old fella’ with a bag of chips. “Where you off to?” “France!” I say.

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 ...

Pat Crockford first came across the Falmouth quay punt Matahari in December 2003 when she was lying in a forlorn state at Martin Heard’s yard at the top of Mylor Creek. She was built – not as a ...

Eric Tabarly’s ever-green Whitbread maxi Pen Duick VI never won a round-the-world yacht race… until now, when she was first over the line in the recent Ocean Globe Race. The skipper this time was his ...

Following an extensive and intensive 15-month restoration, the result of which is simply stunning, the motor yacht Caramba is back in the Mediterranean where she has previously spent at least half of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Nigel Sharp and Jeremy Rogers Co. Nigel Sharp on the history and future of Jeremy Rogers’ Contessa 32. He writes: “the opportunity to sail on and write about a brand new Contessa 32 was too ...

The Folkboat and all the variants of it, from sisterships to distant cousins, enjoy a unique place in the world of classic boats. You don’t have to go far to meet a fan; the further you sail on one, ...

150 years ago, John ‘Rob Roy’ MacGregor started the sports of canoeing and kayaking, and had a big influence on the small cruising yachts that would follow Happy birthday the sport of kayaking. You ...

Tom Cunliffe tells us of stepping a mast in Southampton Water in 1969, when crews were rough, spars were made of trees, cranes were driven by steam… and winter meant snow. “The past is a foreign ...