News | Classic Boat Museum

St Catherine’s Optic - Final Stages of Installation

The St Catherine's Optic has reached the final stages of installation at The Boat Shed. One of our volunteers Roger needed to fabricate...

Women in Maritime History

The Maritime Archaeology Trust have put together a blog post about Women in maritime history. As with many other areas of our past, are...

We appreciate your feedback

Feedback is really important to us so we can develop and grow the Classic Boat Museum in the future. We would appreciate you taking the...

Return of JAZZ to The Classic Boat Museum

Jazz is a Thornycroft design and built by Morgan Giles. She was on loan to the museum up until July 2018 and was then sold to a new owner...

Great Progress is being made on the installation of the St. Catherine’s Optic.

Further to our previous report of the St Catherine's Lighthouse lens being donated to the museum, great progress is being made with the...

Cowes Enterprise College Welcomed The Classic Boat Museum

Victoria Preston from the Museum spoke to 6th formers at Cowes Enterprise College on Wednesday 2nd November. The purpose of the talk was...

Private Party to celebrate the closing of the America's Cup Exhibition

The Classic Boat Museum provided the perfect venue for a private party given by Chris and Victoria Preston to celebrate the closing of...

Crossing the Bar from The Classic Boat Museum

As part of the Isle of Wight Walking Festival The New Carnival Company led a circular walk from The Boat Shed. A 6.5 mile walk...

Vosper Viking Speedboat Donated to the Museum

The museum has received a donation of a 1930's Vosper Viking speedboat from the family of Alan Driscoll who sadly passed away last year. ...

New Carnival shines the light on IW Coastal Heritage

Crossing the Bar (XTB) A unique three day mini walking Festival returns on the 14 October 2022 running through to the 16th October. The...