Tag: Wooden Boats
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Mike Smylie’s new book
Travel with Mike Smylie around Britain’s coast as he describes the fishing communities and their boats who brought the fish to market in the days before modernisation. Traditional British fishing boats’ design evolved to suit… […]
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Rendezvous Brest
A photo essay of the book on Brest. It covers 30 years of the Brest Festival which held every four years (but not 2020) since 1992 in Brittany. Some 2,000 vessels – from canoes to… […]
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Read all our back issues!
All our back issues are now digitised and can be downloaded (for a modest sum) from our online Shop. They were free on issuu for a while but the site became commercial and we couldn’t… […]
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Australian Wooden Boat Fest 2017 is On the Way
Tasmania – from the organisers: Well, the venues are booked, the program is out, the boats are lined up and more than 268 volunteers have already signed up to be part of the largest wooden… […]
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Was the romance of a wooden boat partly because she was a bargain?
Can you remember getting into boating? Chances are a wooden boat made sense because you could pick one up in quite good condition for a few thousand pounds, and that is still true. I remember… […]
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A trophy sail can be as much a great experience as learning a lesson from the sea, the hard way
It’s often after an event at sea that you can look back with clear perspective and see things in the light of personal experience. We got caught out in a high gale in the Arctic… […]
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April issue is out
Our April issue is out with a cover story on Cleone – the claim is that she is Britain’s oldest, or one Britain’s oldest yachts… so naturally we look into that. Beautiful boat nonetheless! Nigel… […]
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The winning ways of Whooper
Meet Giovanni Belgrano – one of our featured classic sailors in the December edition, who takes racing his 1939 Giles one-off design to new heights as he tweaks her rig and systems, and trains his… […]
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Should Stellas be made in GRP?
We have some news from the Stella Association in our December issue – the class is mainly east coast based and has eschewed GRP since it was designed by Kim Holman in 1959. Elsewhere in… […]
