Boatbuilding & Maintenance

Pasco's Boatyard started in 1771. When it was sold to new owners Craig Brown and Chris De Glanville in 2013, one of their aims was to preserve the ...

Boatbuilding has been a traditional skill in Cornwall for many hundreds of years. In the more sheltered waters of Carrick Roads, on the leeward sid...

This fully revised third edition of a classic manual is a mine of information for yachtsmen to customise their boats. An abundance of clear illustr...

This manual takes both novice and experienced boatowner through minor to major repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering system...

Comfort is not a measureable quality, mainly because it means different things to different people. It also changes according to the weather, the t...

This trilogy tells how Ian Nicolson, yachtsman, naval architect and author, joined a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 45-foot ketch Maken from ...

Getting afloat need not be difficult or expensive if you were to build your own boat. Most of the boats described here are suitable for beginners, ...

For many years in Yachts and Yachting magazine, these very practical, workable sketches by yacht designer Ian Nicolson appeared regularly and they ...

The V. Radley and Sons family boatbuilding business flourished by the River Lea in East London from 1840 to 1970 despite facing floods, pollution, ...

Metals have been used in boats for thousands of years, as components of the vessel's construction, as load-bearing parts of the rigging and steerin...