Art and Photography

Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotla...

By Nic Compton Whether used for transport, adventure, work, or sport, boats have played a vital role in human history and have inspired numerous s...

Drawings by Gloria Wilson With a Foreword by Mike Smylie In four dozen meticulous, informative and annotated drawings Gloria Wilson has recorded, b...

Author: Peter Collyer Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas. The ...

By Patrick Roach 'Lochs and Lights' is one of a series of attractive tours of coastlines using views from the air. This addition to the range cove...

Glorious Brest: the world’s largest maritime festival in photographs by Nigel Pert & Dan Houston with a foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Thi...

'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedi...

An encyclopedic compendium of every element of a yacht, this book contains a wealth of information for the aficionado as well as the newcomer, taki...

A celebration, in colour photographs, of the work of Sparkman and Stephens, arguably the most famous yacht company in the USA. Sparkman and Stephen...

The wooden fishing boats of Richard Irvin & Sons Gloria Wilson With a Foreword by Paul Gartside   Having recorded in pen and ink the Fishing Bo...

Early Sketches and Illustrated Articles of Arthur Briscoe for the Yachting Monthly

For decades, boat building has catered for the rich and the elite, and has been out of the reach of ordinary people both economically and culturall...

Dr Thomas Harrison Butler was a skilled, yet amateur, designer responsible for some hundreds of classic English cruising yachts which still grace o...

By John Leather “Form follows function,” as it has been said; when that form enters the realm of Art, we have something timelessly memorable.—Ia...

By Jill Bobrow Before the First World War, King Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II tried to outdo each other at the Cowes Regatta with their cutting...

Since 1883, four generations of the Beken family have dedicated themselves to marine photography, creating the most artistic images of sailboats ev...

By Tony Watts The sea in its many moods, and both sail and steam upon it, are brought to life in these fifty images, through Tony Watts’ lifelong ...

By Vanessa Bird This is the complete reference to the classic yachts and dinghies still sailing today. Focusing on the most well-known, popular an...

Former Classic Boat editor Nic Compton has spent over 20 years sailing and photographing classic yachts, and this is the culmination of his decades...

This book presents a selection of 40 sailing yachts constituting the entire range of available models of this type of boat.

100 Drawings of Yorkshire's North Sea Fishery before the advent of steam By Ernest Dade With a Preface by Peter F. Anson & Foreword by Frank Wh...