How to Race a Three-Masted Schooner: Sailing Atlantic Replica
The opportunity to sail on the mighty three-masted schooner Atlantic was almost too good to be true; and to do so on a glorious...
J-Class World Championships 2024: America’s Cup Then and Now
Svea, Rainbow, and Velsheda took the water this October to compete in the J-Class World Championships, with the 37th America's Cup in full swing...
Finding the Endurance: History & Discovery of Shackleton’s Ship
In 2022 Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was found after 207 years lost below the surface. John Greeves deep dives into Shackleton's Endurance22 mission and...
Yacht Replica that Inspired Spirit of Tradition: Adela’s Steel Rebuild
The rebuild of the 1903 wooden gaff cutter Adela as a steel yacht was highly controversial two decades ago, but today, we revisit her...
How D-Day Actually Worked: Operation Details 80 Years Later
It’s been a year of D Day commemoration, without a hint of the complexity of how D Day actually worked. A visit to a...
West Solent One Design Restored & Racing: Toba in Argentina
Toba is a fine example of a reborn West Solent One Design, which is now alive and kicking, and playing hard in Argentina, Marcelo...
Butch Dalrymple-Smith: First Whitbread & Best Years to be Alive
The best years to be alive in human history: Butch Dalrymple-Smith on a life lived on a planet of infinite resources, when the Solent...
RNLI 200 years: History of Life Saving Boat Design
Dan Houston takes a look at the designs of the RNLI working craft through the ages, and the evolution that led to the rapid...
Westerly Centaur 26: Can this 1969 GRP boat be considered a...
Sir Robin’s first non-stop, solo circumnavigation, Abbey Road and the Moon landing can all be considered ‘classic’. What about Britain’s best-selling cabin yacht of...
D-Day 80th Anniversary: HMS Medusa Leading Fleet to Normandy
HMS Medusa, a 1943 Royal Navy Harbour Defence Motor Launch, the first Allied warship to arrive off the beaches for D-Day, is ready to...
