At last year's Portsoy Traditional Boat Festival , Scotland's biggest gathering of lovely old boats, the Scottish Coastal Rowing pro...

The barges arrive. It takes nearly 2 hours to drive them over the course. The annual Barge Driving Race is fought between a dozen or s...

What a lovely picture - exotic and familiar at the same time. As blog reader Kim Apel says, a Chinese equivalent of the gondola. He writes: ...

T'was the Admiral of the Port's Challenge this evening, a race for Thames Waterman's Cutters. It started at the Houses of Parli...

  I'm so proud. My one-sheet ship Simbo has been modelled in Lego. It is clearly only a matter of time before a special edition is for s...

I got some spiffy new kit yesterday - a pair of knee-length SealSkinz waterproof socks, modeled elegantly by me with the Solent Galley Bemb...

Here's Alan Witt's Derwent skiff under oars on the Derwent - the Derwent in Tasmania, that is. It is an attractive 5.5m sliding seat...