Classic Boat

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.

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THE LAST MCGRUER • Launched in 1968, yet built in traditional carvel, Rinamara is the swansong of her designer’s career, and an era

Med regatta series for old yachts

West Country Classics Series

Entries open for Falmouth Classics 2022

UNESCO recognises clinker boats

Rare chance to buy a Cornish boatyard

Tore Holm biography

Taylor to Head Up Cowes Classics Week 2022

One woman’s clinker mission

Glenlee celebrates 125th birthday

The first foiling classic boat?

James Wharram, 1928-2021

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THE NOMINEES • Our shortlist of the year’s best restorations, new vessels and more – which gets your vote?

THE NOMINEES RESTORED SAILING VESSEL UNDER 40FT (12.2M)

THE NOMINEES RESTORED SAILING VESSEL OVER 40FT (12.2M)

THE NOMINEES NEW SAILING VESSEL ALL SIZES

THE NOMINEES RESTORED POWERED VESSEL ALL SIZES

THE NOMINEES NEW POWERED VESSEL ALL SIZES

THE NOMINEES GSTAAD YACHT CLUB CENTENARIAN OF THE YEAR

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Objects of desire

BOSUN’S BAG • PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

PULLING POWER • Jaap is known the world over as a maker of classic wooden blocks and deck gear – we caught up with him on the phone from his home in the Netherlands.

SAILING HOME • The century-old gaffer Hardy was stuck in England’s south west, without enough crew to get boat and owner back to the East Coast at the end of the season. It was time to ship aboard and sail home

BETTER BY DESIGN • Ireland’s iconic working boat inspires all sorts of romantic lore about ‘building by eye’… but it’s nonsense. This most curvaceous of hulls owes its existence to simple maths – and straight lines

BLUEWATER OR CANALS • The Hardy 42 twin-diesel motor cruiser is known as a brawny boat, but this new diesel-electric version is as suited to the canals of France as she is to the wide blue yonder

Go big or stay home • Looking to make up for two lost summers? You could try a big charter like these… see classic-charters.com

THE BLISS OF IGNORANCE • Before modern communications, sailing off on a voyage meant sailing away from all the awkward questions the land asks of us

Yard News

POWERING UP • The rise and rise of Cockwells over a decade

Boatbuilder’s Notes

CIRCULAR SAW

Letters

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January is a taxing time • With only 323 shopping days to Christmas left, Dave Selby renews his club membership