This very odd animation reminds me of the apocryphal quote from the 19th century novelist Ouida, who was much mocked for her lack of knowle...

This extraordinary mechanism is a fine example of a Victorian bow-facing rowing system that John Blondell has in his shed. They have a lever...

 Went out from Itchenor to East Head at 6.30 this morning. It was lovely of course, but the clear cloudless sky of the past week or so had b...

Peter Miller, inventor of the Huge Rear View Mirror for Rowers, writes from Australia, where he has just been for what must be one of the wo...

Hamble River Rowing launched on Saturday beneath cloudless and blissfully planeless skies. The club's home, the Jolly Sailor pub in ...

American whaleboats were not the same as British whalers. British whalers were pulling boats carried by Royal Navy warships for training an...

This is a neat rigger design that I noticed on a skiff made by Salters of Oxford in 1887, now under the hammer at the Turks aution. The for...