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 ...

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 ...

Two former Reading Blue Coat pupils aim to make history in a charity race across the Indian Ocean. James Thysse, from Odell Close, Lower Earley, and university pal Jamie Facer, from Maidenhead, are ...

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 ...

Key Point: The modern version of these troop carriers may or may not be automated. From Omaha Beach to Iwo Jima, the great amphibious invasions of World War II were made possible by a humble plywood ...

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, ...