One of my favourite picnicking spots is Portchester Castle , built by the Romans, transformed into a modern fortress by the Normans, and u...

Dawn: Malcolm Knight and friends get up at 3.30 for to row their lovely traditional skiffs on the Thames to Kingston for traditional baco...

More eccentric engineering from Beale Park. The Cordless Canoe Challenge run by Water Craft magazine has one basic rule: all the power mus...

To Richmond Bridge Boat Club yesterday to coach a crew in training for the Great River Race. To get to the club we passed a slipway where, a...

The Steam Boat Association of Great Britain always puts on a great show at Beale, showing off their superb engineering skills in some gre...

Model warships from Victorian battleships to nuclear subs have featured in previous Beale Boat Shows, and this year it was the turn of HMS...

This is Cwch Bach, or 'Small Boat', exhibited at Beale by Classic Sailboats of Caernarfon, north Wales. I got a row in their nice...