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Most of us got a bit bored during lockdown and bought a few things online that we really didn’t need . . . but a grand prix race boat?…

After seven years of painstaking, restorative labour, the 1898 cutter Kate is back sailing on the Hauraki Gulf.

Although windscreen wipers are a legal requirement on cars, many boats, especially small to medium models, lack these.

The Newick-designed Val trimaran, Kuihi (goose) has emerged from an offshore whale vs boat mishap in better shape than ever.

There is something curiously contradictory about gazing out over a seascape in silence. You might get to understand a little about the sea…

John Spencer is variously known as the ‘Plywood King’, a ‘mad scientist’ or a ‘genius in disguise’.

In November last year a Polish chef on London Bridge overpowered a knifewielding terrorist who’d fatally stabbed two pedestrians. As…

Despite Covid-19, Italy’s Museo della Barca Lariana, founded in 1982 by Gianalberto Zanoletti and now run by his son Ferdinando, has…

The building of Pilar replicas has been a project 20 years in the making – and was created by American Wes Wheeler.

WoW – Women on Water – was established in 2001 by TYPBC to give women across a range of backgrounds, occupations and abilities the…

Sailing my childhood dream yacht – Gipsy Moth IV – was a fantasy come true, recalls Kevin Green.

Readers of my vintage may remember – probably not fondly – being forced as school children to rote-learn passages from The Rime of the…