As usual in winter, the trades whistled with determination through the anchorage at Praia, on Santiago, one of the islands of Cape Verde. Looking out the companionway, I saw a couple in a dinghy let ...

[Rinoa Super-Genius] shows us in a video how to build a crude motorized barrel boat using only a few parts, including pontoons for extra buoyancy and stabilisation. Building a barrel boat is simple.

Britain has more than 3,500km of waterways to explore, but instead of buying a canoe from the supermarket why not make your own? When did you last build a boat? Maybe that seems an outlandish concept ...