For the people who feel the pull of the water — and the ones who answered it.

Most of us live a little further from the sea than we'd like — not in miles, but in nerve. Boat Tomorrow is a magazine about closing that distance. We make portraits of the people who arranged their lives around the water — harbourmasters, builders, skippers, founders, the ones who quietly traded the safe version for the windy one — and the places and boats that life runs on.

It isn't a brochure and it isn't a buyer's guide. It's an argument, made one story at a time, that a freer life close to the water is real, reachable, and worth the price it asks. We're interested in mastery, character, the elements, and the unglamorous machinery behind the romance. We're not interested in champagne sunsets.

Who makes it

I came to sailing sideways, through surfing, and stayed for the thing underneath both: the wind, the elements, and the particular kind of person who builds a life around freedom rather than around avoiding it. I kept meeting those people in harbours and on docks and thinking someone should be writing them down. So I started.

— Vadim Jourdan

What we cover