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Together with HMS Victory’s Master Shipwright Leonardo Bortolami, we look at some common questions about the project and ...
Abbey Boat Builder re-launched on June 14th this year as they moved to new premises based in the heart of the historical ...
On 12th June, Falmouth Harbour welcomed 159 boats, the majority of which built before 1950, for a weekend of classic racing.
For angles other than the perpendicular of the try-square and 45 degrees of a mitre-square, the essential measuring tool is a ...
Beware the score of too long ashore, Adrian Morgan warns, as he tells us of the ways a boat can turn against you after the ...
Wondering whats on the wooden boat market? Here are two beautiful classic yachts for sale... Why not take a look?
Tom Cunliffe tells us of his regatta days in France... the day he went up against Pen Duick... and when Eric Tabarly came ...
Steffan Meyric-Hughes travels to Essex to discover the work of the Pioneer Trust and the activities at Harker’s Yard. In these parts, they say that westerlies go around you, but easterlies go through ...
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 ...
It started off as a challenge to row across the English Channel, then the Bristol Channel, and then from Plymouth to the Eddystone Lighthouse and back. But, after several weeks of training on Plymouth ...