You might one day need to sail your boat int a marina without an engine. Rupert Holmes explains useful techniques for boat ...

Zoe Barlow and husband Martyn quit their jobs for a liveaboard adventure with their dog, Ralph. They share their tips for ...

There are multitudes of sailing knots but, thankfully perhaps, today’s boat owner only needs to learn a few. These are mostly ...

In most marinas around the UK and Europe, you will see used Beneteau sailboats, an indication of how much this brand has grown over the decades. So how has a humble family firm building wooden fishing ...

Small cruisers, so they say, give pleasure in inverse proportion to their size. ‘The smaller the boat, the more it gets used and the more fun it gives,’ goes the saying. Nowadays we’re spoiled for ...

Some call them pilothouse boats, some deck saloons. There’s frequent confusion about which is which with this variety of yacht. Some of them have a raised coachroof to allow for more light through ...

With her long keel, appealing lines, big-boat feel and surprisingly roomy interior, the Frances 26 is a sought-after, second-hand buy, says David Harding Boats that are both modest in size and classic ...

The previous article in this series (Part 2: Birth of a boat – truing stem and stern) saw the keel set up with stem and sternpost – and not much… ...

Zoran Glozinic saves some cash by making a new cockpit grate for his yacht using redundant old wooden kitchen shelves ...