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Admire the world's most beautiful boats, brought to life through breath-taking photography. Classic Boat offers a unique blend of yacht reviews, seamanship and restoration features, history and design columns, practical advice and coverage of the leading international regattas and events. Whether your interest lies in working on restoration projects or sailing in classic regattas; whether you're a wooden boat owner or simply an admirer of traditional marine workmanship, Classic Boat will have something for you.

GOING AROUND THE WRONG WAY

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THE FIRST OF THE MAXIS • Six decades after a sensational line honours win, she took on the Fastnet again in 2021. We trace the story of Stormvogel

Tell Tales

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PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION Winners • The National Historic Ships UK photography competition, run annually in partnership with Classic Boat, attracted many strong images. Here are the winners

SINGLE SHOT • The new Spirit 30 is Spirit’s smallest offering and the builder’s first open boat… but by volume, she’s as potent as the rest

Saleroom

Objects of desire

Awning of a new age • Getting the awning on perfectly is the work of a liftime

Youngest round Britain • Meet the 14-year-old sailor who last summer became the youngest person to sail singlehanded around Britain, on her 26ft classic yacht

THE PLANING LUGGER • Lug rig is just a table cloth on a stick, said the nay-sayers. How wrong they were..

VANDERBILT TENDER • She was originally the tender to the 170ft steam yacht Vedette. After restoration, she’s a working museum exhibit

FALLING IN WONDER • Why do people fall for classic yachts? An anthropologist and artist spends a season on the Med circuit to find out…

CHAY BLYTH AND THE WRONG WAY… 50 YEARS ON • Half a century after Chay Blyth’s ‘round the wrong way’ solo voyage, we fit the last piece in the puzzle and track down his missing yacht – British Steel

MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN • In the timbers of old vessels lie the spirits of those who’ve gone before. Just occasionally, they emerge, like helping hands from the dead

Getting afloat

Saecwen’s tender

Wedding present

Goings-on at Artisan Boatworks

Britannia shapes up

EAST COAST CLASSIC YARD • Sail and power, little and large, old and new… it’s all here

Boots for bits

JENNINGS AUGER BITS

Letters

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Swinging the lead • Sailing was a very different world back in the 1950s, remembers John Simpson