Despite a battering by a spring storm, this novice sailor gets stuck right in with the crewing of a century-old, two-masted wooden ketch on a two-day trip off the Cornish coast Our first few hours ...

NEWPORT BEACH – The Mariner’s Mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway has become best known for luxury sedan sales and waterfront dining, but it’s suddenly living up to its name in a big way. Right ...

Fear seized Jennifer Bopp her first time aboard the Fairwind in rough waters. She struggled to stay on two feet as the 40-foot ketch pitched violently from side to side, occasionally tipping over far ...

Crowds of people young and old bustled between the jam-packed docks where lines of moored wooden boats and their crew welcomed day two of Tasmania’s largest free festival. After a cancelled event in ...

Martin Jackson enjoys an old-fashioned high-seas adventure off the Canary Islands, sailing on the last British-made wooden trading ketch. The voyage promises sun and whale-watching, and the romance of ...

Sailing alone aboard a 35-foot yacht, a wooden ketch named the Temptress, Edward Allcard crossed the Atlantic Ocean — traveling from Europe to New York and back — using only the stars and a sextant, ...

It spent years ferrying superstars and millionaires around the West Indies, but on Tuesday the sailing ship Irene will set off from Plymouth on what may turn out to be a more historic, and worthwhile, ...

Another significant casualty has been added to the ever-growing list of yachts destroyed by fire or the odd accident this year. This time, it’s a 1929 classic wood ketch called Halcyon. On the ...

Here are the top reasons to make a day of it on the waterfront.

Sail head first in to the 13th Australian Wooden Boat Festival on the Hobart waterfront from February 8-11. Festival general manager Paul Cullen says from around 1830 it was normal to see Tasmanian ...

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