The software for the Satmap Active 10 satnav for walkers, cyclists and rowers has been upgraded, and the Satmap people sent all registered o...

Christopher Laughton, inventor of the Rocat mentioned a few days ago, writes to say that a version of the design for recreational rowing is...

I have never seen a duck punt on Chichester Harbour, but as they go out before dawn and at low tide in winter this is hardly surprising. Wil...

I've been considering sliding riggers for my next boat. Sliding riggers, where the rigger and stretcher slide and the seat is fixed, wer...

David Winspear is one of a dying breed - the boatbuilders who went through an indentured apprenticeship. Sadly, he has to work as a joiner b...

It's every yachtsman's nightmare. The sails are down as you enter harbour and the motor suddenly dies. You drift inexorably between ...

Reed boats seem very exotic to Westerners, who only see them in books about Ancient Egypt or remote Lake Titicaca, but river boatmen in Irel...