Boating-Sailing
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BOAT BUILDERS ON ICE
Sailing to the frozen north is a big trend these days. Meet two British boatbuilders who sail their self-built wooden boats to the ice every year
5 min |
January 2020
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AFFORDABLE CLASSIC Pioneer 9
AFFORDABLE CLASSIC Pioneer 9
3 min |
January 2020
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All grown up now
Back in 2011, Robbie Fabre became the youngest recipient of our Restoration of the Year Award. We catch up on the missing years
5 min |
January 2020
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100 YEARS OF THE S-CLASS
A century on and more than half of the original boats are still racing and sailing – we take a closer look at Herreshoff’s enduring design
8 min |
January 2020
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Replicas The Next Big Thing
THING In the first of two articles, John Lammerts van Bueren traces the start of the second great chapter of the classic yacht revival... the big class yachts and schooners
10+ min |
December 2019
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Back From The Dead
One of history’s most radically advanced yachts, saved to race again
10+ min |
December 2019
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Alfa Romeo's Cross Waves
For nearly a century, Alfa Romeo engines have worked wonders not only on road and track, but also on the water, adding to the racing success of some of the most legendary models of the Milanese house
4 min |
December 2019
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Trading Places
A charter party hired sailing barge Cambria to experience fi rst hand what crews faced in the days of sail. Former mates Phil ‘Ginger’ Latham and Dick Durham joined them aboard Britain’s last sailing merchant ship
8 min |
December 2019
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Return Of The Phinisi
All but consigned to history, the growth of tourism in Indonesia has driven a delightful resurgence in this graceful schooner
8 min |
November 2019
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Winner In The Trad Class
Polly was first in the Traditional New Build class and overall winner of the Classic Boat Awards of 2018. Tom Cunliffe goes aboard to see how she made the cut
10 min |
November 2019
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Jenetta Racing Again
The longest yacht ever built to the fabled 12-M class has been rebuilt from a wreck
10 min |
November 2019
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Lady Judy Mcalpine- Saving The Trad
The Henley Trad was a well-loved institution in great trouble, when an unlikely saviour stepped in
5 min |
November 2019
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Hot Rod Lobster Boat
With their seductive sobriety and brilliant performance, original lobster boats like Flying Eagle continue to attract saviours
7 min |
November 2019
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Consigned to the waves
Plastic boats? They’re so good, they’re bad. But what of us?
3 min |
March 2017
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The Dunkirk Spirit
Inspired by tales of the boat that rescued his grandfather from Dunkirk, a Kent businessman decided to fulfill his boyhood dream and to buy something just the same
9 min |
October 2017
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Drunk On the Job!
The timber was just gliding through, chips flying...
3 min |
October 2017
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Bosun's Bag
Practical Tips For The Traditional Boater
4 min |
October 2017
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Simon Winter- Insuring The Past
What is an old yacht worth? Deciding such matters is Simon Winter’s bread and butter
5 min |
October 2017
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Yawls In The Sun
A baby cries as she rubs sand into her eye while nearby two boys are digging a moat around their castle. Prone on a sunlounger, mum glances from behind the pages of a magazine as a handful of seemingly identical wooden sailing boats glide past on the afternoon breeze, yards off the beach.
2 min |
October 2017
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Getting Over The Bar
What kind of cruising person have you become?
3 min |
November 2017
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Bosun's Bag- Practical Tips For The Tradition Boater
Son of a marine engineer and grandson of a trawlerman, MARTYN MACKRILL is Honorary Painter to the Royal Thames Yacht Club and was o†cial painter for the Royal Yacht Squadron’s bicentenary. His depictions of classic boats, from clinker rowing boats to Edwardian schooners, have made him one of the most sought-after marine artists and his work is part of major collections worldwide. He and wife Bryony sail the restored 1910 ga” cutter Nightfall (CB328).
4 min |
November 2017
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How To Read Lines Plans
A practised glance at the waterlines, sections and buttocks can tell us much about a yacht’s character
7 min |
November 2017
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Green Goddess
Cruising Artemis, a newly built canoe-sterned gaff sloop, off Martha’s Vineyard.
6 min |
April 2017
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Doing the Swedish Twist
Rock-hopping in a wooden Twister through an elaborate maze of anchorages.
5 min |
April 2017
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Lifeboat Rescued
After saving lives on the East Coast and at Dunkirk, the RNLI lifeboat Lucy Lavers needed some help herself. Two brothers stepped in…
7 min |
April 2017
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Greek Charm
We join a Fred Shepherd ketch for glorious racing off the island of Spetses in a growing classic regatta.
7 min |
March 2017
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Metre Man
He has an 8-Metre coachroof as a bookcase in his living room. We meet the man behind many Metre boat restorations.
4 min |
March 2017
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Olof Hildebrand, Classic Swedish Yachts
Yes, I think so. In the 1970s I worked as a lawyer and sailing was my hobby.
2 min |
December 2017
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She's A Terror
A Paul Gartside design built by a financial insurance manager turned boatbuilder
7 min |
December 2017
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Do You Deserve Her?
Hard-standing and wooden boats don’t go together
3 min |