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Many years back as a young journalist I was invited to a press conference at a hotel complex where the smooth-talking owner presented an exciting plan to build a series of ‘Eco Pods’ on the land behin

Rob Hardy enjoys a quiet yet action-packed day on Derbyshire's Ladybower Reservoir thanks to a state-of-the-art outboard

Back in the 1970s multihull saillors were generally a pretty esoteric lot. It didn’t help that Donald Crowhurst ushered in the new decade with his tragic exploits in his Teignmouth Electron trimaran.

Often overlooked and rarely serviced as often as they should be, winches are a vital element of any sailing boat’s deck gear. But the winch your boat comes with doesn’t have to be the winch you stick

The cars, bikes, scooters and battery-powered transport that is reinventing the need for speed

Delivery skipper Ben Lowings examines how different popular rudder designs affect handling, and explains how to maintain them