Boating-Sailing
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Sails of the CENTURY
When it comes to buying new sails, classic boat owners may face a bewildering choice of sailcloths and panel layouts – Nigel Sharp offers up some clarity
7 min |
September 2020
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Running on blind faith
Used correctly, Stuart Turners are completely silent and reliable, explains Dave Selby
3 min |
September 2020
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SEA SOLACE
Revisiting childhood Brittany holidays with his parents, Roger Barnes fills in some the gaps from those early travels but finds most joy in the human encounters
9 min |
September 2020
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LUKE CHAPTER 9
Pellew is Luke Powell’s 9th pilot cutter replica, and his biggest... by far
10+ min |
September 2020
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ROD HEIKELL - The pilot
The Kiwi who came to the Mediterranean, fell in love, and never went home
6 min |
September 2020
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1930S-STYLE COMMUTE TO WORK
After some serious restoration it is hoped that Scout will motor on into the next century
7 min |
September 2020
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AFFORDABLE CLASSIC Halcyon 27
Those of us who were old enough to enjoy a pub, drive a car, go to rock concerts and sail offshore on yachts in the heady days of the 1960s were lucky. We were pitched headlong into an era of change, liberation, thrills and occasional spills. It was magic.
3 min |
September 2020
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Who Was Really The First To Discover America?
A historical replica voyage has proved that the Phoenicians may well have reached the shores of the new world a full two millennia before Columbus
9 min |
August 2020
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SAVING ADLARD COLES' YACHT
Cohoe IV has been in the Osborn family for more than 30 years, but she was commissioned by none other than Adlard Coles
8 min |
August 2020
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BOSUN'S BAG
PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER
5 min |
August 2020
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PARISIAN POWERBOAT PIONEER
Founded in 1905, Despujols was one of the rst great names of international powerboating. Its nal boats built in the 1960s mark the end of the golden age of varnished wooden runabouts and artisanal yards
7 min |
August 2020
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TOM CUNLIFFE - THAT SINKING FEELING
Experience may trump theorising, but who thought plugging cracked seams with soap was a good idea?
6 min |
August 2020
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ON THE WINDS OF THE WAR
General Patton’s plan to sail When and If around the world was never realised – current owner Seth Salzmann intends to full the boat’s destiny
9 min |
August 2020
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SETH SALZMANN -Thinking big
After a lifetime love affair with schooners, Seth makes manoeuvring his 141-footer look easy
4 min |
August 2020
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PAINT Finishing TOUCH
We asked Thames boatbuilder Colin Henwood, who teaches finishing to students at the Boat Building Academy, to give us a crash course in paint and varnish. In this second part, he tackles the subject of a perfect traditional gloss paint finish
8 min |
August 2020
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GROWN GRAB RAILS
In the second of our ‘lockdown projects’ series, we make good use of a wooden windfall
3 min |
August 2020
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10OF THE BEST SAILING DINGHIES
In years gone by, you’d have had a 12 or 14ft clinker-built, lug-rigged dinghy with a pair of oars, but there is now a plethora of boats to buy, or build from kit or plan
9 min |
August 2020
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The Fife Dynasty
When people speak of Wm Fife III’s designs, you might be forgiven for thinking he had been placed on this earth by angels. In fact, he learned much from his boatbuilding father and grandfather
10 min |
July 2020
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TALL SHIP IN TENERIFE
Shipping aboard a square-rigger for some sailing in the Canaries was a chance to learn some new sail names and escape the northern hemisphere winter
7 min |
July 2020
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JACK GIFFORD Lines man
When he’s not writing his Classic Design column for us, naval architect Jack Gifford is usually designing boats – or prospecting for gold in the Congo
5 min |
July 2020
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SET FOR ANOTHER CENTURY
Curlew has been through a lot over the last 108 years, but her owner’s philosophy was to make a strong boat even stronger
9 min |
July 2020
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ITALIAN FLAIR
Meet the family who have built over 3,000 boats
2 min |
July 2020
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SPEETOG PLIER CLAMP
Speetogs may sound like slimline swimming trunks, but mixing these toggle-operated tools with your Speedos could engender life-changing events. Compact as nutcrackers, the Speetog plier clamp is the true terrier of the toolbox, as tenacious as those eager jaws and muscular levers would suggest.
1 min |
July 2020
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RENAISSANCE OF A MASTERPIECE
From her controversial start, this beautiful, heavy-weather champion from Fife III has found many lovers in a century afloat
10 min |
July 2020
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Sailing at a social distance
Harking back to simpler times during enforced boatlessness
3 min |
July 2020
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HOW TO WHITTLE WOODEN SPOONS
Sailors on long voyages would pass the time whittling spoons. In the first of our ‘lockdown projects’ series, we learn how
3 min |
July 2020
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CLEAN SWEEP WITH A BROOM
Bought in 2011, Admiral VII has been a labour of love, if not a busman’s holiday, for cross-Channel ferry captain Steve Morgan
6 min |
July 2020
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BACK WITH A FANFARE
It was love at first sight for Alessandra Della Betta, whose first boat – 105-year-old Tirrenia II – was relaunched with a star-studded party after a decade out of the water
8 min |
June 2020
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BOSUN'S BAG
PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER
4 min |
June 2020
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Bluebird The first twin-keeler
The revolutionary twin-keeled Bluebird was met with disdain from sailors in the 1920s, but then the rest of the world caught on...
3 min |