As you likely know, it's the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, undertaking the largest from-the-sea invasion in the history of human warfare and ...

The Mirror dinghy - the craft that brought sailing to the masses - has been named in the top 10 list of boats that changed sailing forever. The humble plywood boat was launched by the Mirror in 1963 ...

It’s probably a dream common to many groups of friends among the Hackaday readership: go away together to a sunny island some time in the summer, take a load of beer and maybe a BBQ, and build ...

I'm trying to figure out why I have spent the prettiest days of spring in my garage messing with fiberglass, plywood and epoxy instead of enjoying the sunshine. A 12-foot skiff is involved. It has ...

Olympic medallist Stuart Bithell learned to sail in one. Round-the-world yachtswomen Ellen MacArthur and Dee Caffari are big fans too. And this year the Mirror dinghy – the little plywood wonder that ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In the early '70s, a woman from Sydney decided she might like to try sailing. Her name was Ann Gash, ...

Beside the St. Augustine Lighthouse, a group of volunteers takes saws and nails to help construct replicas from the rich maritime history of Northeast Florida. The program is called Heritage Boatworks ...