Some seafaring terms are as out-of date as wooden pilot's wheels and using the stars and birds for navigation. What is a poop deck, and what does it do?

Windstar Cruises' namesake, Wind Star, is a 148-passenger masted sailing yacht that offers a special Greek islands experience, calling on some of the region's smaller off-the-beaten-path ports. The ...

Entries under the names “Ship 1” and “Ship 2” have been fairly commonplace in the King’s Harbour Master shipping movements. Cherkasy was spotted alongside Bedenham Pier near Gosport at ...

Stripping bark, roughing out, squaring up ... as well as fascinating tales from yesteryear and the latest from the wooden boat building scene around the world.

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The Dutch flagged, three-masted, iron barque Europa, built in 1911 in Hamburg ... made it a sight to remember how the old ways of sailing ships were in the dreamy town. A beautiful evening ...