In a post-exploration world, two relatively ordinary blokes, serving Royal Marines, decided they ...

This book is a conversation with the past, conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed...

Erling's Tambs's charming and modest account of how, with great fortitude, resourcefulness and go...

In his lone six-year voyage from England to New Zealand in the 1950s, in a 1908 yawl designed by ...

The improbable, yet true, and highly readable story of a Hull steam trawler, her industry, and he...

Gloria Wilson documents the Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden craft for whic...

First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates-with hu...

Fishing boats of the North Sea have always been fundamental to my existence, writes Gloria Wilson...

HEARD ISLAND, an improbably remote speck in the far Southern Ocean, lies four thousand kilometres...

This is West Country boatbuilder Luke Powell's account of his life building and sailing tradition...

Ben Lowings examines David Lewis's lifetime of adventure forensically yet sympathetically, to com...

David Hillyard, founder of the famous firm of boatbuilders in Littlehampton, was born in the late...