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May is just around the corner and this year promises hundreds of opportunities to try sailing and windsurfing with RYA Push the Boat Out (PTBO)!

If the glorious Easter bank holiday weather has got you thinking about switching off those screens a...

The most impressive collaborations between prestige car manufacturers and boat builders

 Many well known car manufacturers have branched out and teamed up with boat builders in recent years to co-create some of the best machines to tackle ...

Boatshed team members travelled to Les Sables d'Olonne for the GGR prize giving and awarded the Boatshed 5000 GBP to Jean-Luc van den Heede for the fastest boat in the 2018 Golden Globe Race.

Cosy jumpers do not come much better than the Vivi striped jumper from Weird Fish. Versatile and easy to wear, this jumper is cut to offer a soft and comfy fit, making it a staple piece you will keep reaching for. Just throw it on with y...

Marlow Ropes has launched a premium sustainable mooring rope made using 100 per cent recycled plastic. Seven-and-half waste plastic bottles are used to make one metre of Marlow’s 16mm Blue Ocean Dockline. It is available pre-spliced in 12mm ...

The ErgoFit+ includes a spray hood design that almost completely seals off the water from the face. This is achieved through improved bladder and spray-hood compatibility, and a design that allows the hood to block off water ingress. The hood...

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A favourite with cruisers, the Gill OS2 is also ideal for offshore races such as the Rolex Fastnet. Taking inspiration from the pinnacle Race Ocean collection, which underwent hours of product development and testing, the OS2 is a leadin...

Pictured are Caroline Dinenage, Cath Longhurst, Dee Caffari, David Williams and Captain Ian McNaught.

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ABP’s all-female team sail to the start line at the Southampton Sailing Week Women’s Cup 2019.

This September will see the third outing of the Southampton Sailing Week Regatta. The three-day event is set to see 60 yachts and 600 sail...

Fairline Yachts has announced details of its new Squadron 68, set to debut at Cannes Yachting Festival in September.

March saw the last ever Squadron 65 leave the Fairline Yachts Ipswich factory, making way for the  new Squadron 68, the fir...

The RYA’s Push the Boat Out campaign is set to return this May, with more than 350 venues across the UK offering free or low cost, sailing and windsurfing taster sessions.

The national participation campaign aims to get more people sailing...

The Wonderbag is a simple but revolutionary heat retention slow-cooker, which continues to cook food, which has been brought to the boil by fire, cook stoves or any conventional method, for up to 12 hours without the use of any additional fuel sou...

World Sailing’s landmark decision to select a Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat event for the 2024 Olympics and the recent announcement to hold an Offshore World Championship for mixed double-handed sailing in October 2020 has encouraged th...

We have just received news that the newly launched London Yacht Show has been postponed until 2020.

The event had been rebranded and relaunched earlier this year with a focus on the high-end boating and luxury goods mar...

A Plymouth business, which has combined boating with the shared economy concept, has expanded after positive results from their first year.

Yacht Haven Quay, a Plymstock boatyard which is home to the UK’s largest ‘indoor marina&rsquo...

Safety specialists ACR Electronics, ARTEX and Ocean Signal once again are raising 406 MHz beacon awareness on the seventh annual 406Day on Saturday, April 6th.

Every year, the leading beacon manufacturers team up with supporters and aviation, ou...

Sunseeker is delighted to announce that M/Y Elysium, an exceptionally well customised 131 Yacht, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Semi-Displacement or Planing Motor Yachts – 40m and above’ category at this year’s ...