Rolling out any new system is bound to have some bumps along the way but the Technical Committee of the Classic Yacht Owner’s Association, tasked with creating the latest Classic Rating Formula, known ...

There's something special about owning a beautiful yacht that has lived and cruised for more than three decades, and it's even more special if the yacht is a piece of American shipbuilding history. It ...

In the week before next year’s America’s Cup in Bermuda, the biggest fleet of J-Class yachts assembled since the 1930s will gather and race off the islands in a reminder to modern crews that the world ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We are told to keep an eye on the opposition. It pays to do so when surrounded by tons of polished timbers and ...

Judging by today's standards, it would be easy to imagine that a luxury yacht that has been around for almost 40 years has changed hands countless times. Yet that's not the case for the beautiful ...

Her wooden spars gleam in the St. Tropez sunshine and water laps gently at her classic curves – a far cry from her life as a houseboat on a Dutch canal. Alongside her, lining the pretty French ...

Interior designer Nathan Hutchins is more used to renovating historical buildings than classic yachts. But when the owners of the 1930s yacht Marala commissioned him to undertake the boat’s extensive ...

The Hudson River freezes over every few years and when it does, the owners of classic ice yachts haul their boats out of storage and set them up on the frozen plate. I sail a newer type of iceboat ...

It’s the French coastal town known around the world for its glittering film festival – but for a few days each September the classics are to be found on the blue water rather than the silver screen.

It seems like a way of life for which the word idyllic was specifically coined. We're out on a classic yacht on Gare Loch, sailing into the mouth of the Clyde, on a pleasant summery day. The sun is ...