First Class Sailing News Today

From sea celebrations in the Isles of Scilly to mystery road trips in the Highlands, you don’t need to travel far to have an amazing holiday

With bow-thrusters and powerful engines, using warps for berthing a vessel might seem an old-fashioned irrelevance, but warping is still a useful technique

Every week, our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you dont have to. This week: Outdoor adventures around the UK.

From sailing tall ships and seafood trails to cool canal boating and camping in the Broads, we pick 10 watery breaks

Yachting World 0shares A true working yacht, the 112-year-old Golden Vanity has a new role for 2021, as Nic Compton discovers The lockdown of spring 2020 prompted all kinds of unusual purchases. People bought puppies, bikes, hot-tubs… Not many opted to buy a 23-ton, 112-year-old wooden cutter, yet that is exactly what Southampton-based charter operator Charlie Tulloch did when he purchased Golden Vanity. “Everyone’s got a lockdown story,” he says. “Mine was ...