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

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...

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

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

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

In 'Good Little Ship' Peter Willis analyses a classic of maritime literature - Arthur Ransome's '...

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

Will Stirling describes and illustrates the many arcane tasks which can daunt the beginning boatb...

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

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

Edward Allcard's epic two crossings of the Atlantic in the mid-twentieth century in his thirty-fo...

In photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she...

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...

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

The end of the Second World War released a pent-up desire among many to once more ply the seas in...