ALAMEDA — Boat building and sailing were not just a heritage and livelihood for Svend Svendsen. They were an abiding love that endured from his childhood in Denmark to his life in Alameda, where the ...

PORT HADLOCK — The first time the boat sailed, it was tops in its class. A few days after the Nordic Folkboat was completed by students at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, it made its ...

Research indicates that boats exclusively used in salt water, which are not maintained and cleansed with fresh water, may depreciate more rapidly. This could influence the book value 10% to 15%. Take ...

A record number of yachts completed this year's Round the Island Race with Dame Ellen MacArthur skippering an Extreme 40 catamaran to first place. Dame Ellen MacArthur, sailing the Xtreme 40 catamaran ...

Iain Percy, the gold medallist in the single-handed Finn class in Sydney, spent the main part of yesterday as a coach to one of the five yachts singled out for special attention by Skandia, whose name ...

The bleak and rusty concrete Nab Tower east of the Solent is not a beautiful edifice but it is certainly a useful and popular turning mark for racing. On Saturday (July 5th) the Royal Southampton ...