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Classic Boat

Sep 01 2021
Magazine

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.

IT’S NEVER PLAIN SAILING

Classic Boat

CENTREBOARD KETCH • Saecwen of Lymington is a new strip-planked centreboard ketch, built by the Elephant Boatyard to a Nigel Irens design. Hardly run of the mill then…

BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK

Cowes Classics Week a huge success

Barges race on the Blackwater

Classic Yachts magazine

Arthur Beale moves to Portsmouth

Italian city gets its own classic yacht

Historic paddle steamer slipped

Original Mermaid

Classics at Southampton Boat Show • The Southampton International Boat Show, which runs from 10-19 September, is expanding in a big way this year and taking over more of the city. There is plenty lined up for classic boaters and others

TROY STORY TWO • Barbara’s first owner ordered her in 1947 with the money that should have been a deposit on a family home. Now she’s been rebuilt as new boat, with just her lead keel to remind her of the past

Saleroom

Objects of desire

Floating on her waterline • Will he ever get that waterline painted on right?

BOSUN’S BAG • PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

Sky’s no limit • His first design was for a 36ft sailing yacht. Now, Andrew Winch is designing a dozen super yachts, including the biggest the world has ever seen. Then there’s the jets and houses…

ON THE TRAIL OF THE REAL MR PIKE • Fred Mortimer, one of the last sailors of the age of sail, inspired Jack London to create the character Mr Pike in The Mutiny of The Elsinore

LESSONS IN SCHOONERING • For a top racing skipper with two transats under his belt, sailing a schooner to Haiti was going to be a piece of cake – right?

Ian ridgeway’s notes on ropes

Nat Benjamin’s next challenge

THE ISLE OF LIGHT • Off the French Mediterranean coast, famed for the big regattas at Cannes, Saint-Tropez and Antibes, a smaller regatta has been hiding in plain sight – for 18 years

GOING WITH THE FLOW • We’ve admired Nick Smith’s fiercely traditional gent’s harbour launches for years – finally, it was time to hear their story and have a go in one

Honey Bee

Getting afloat

Starling Burgess 8-M from history

Oldest wooden barge to be restored

MIND OVER MATTER • Boatbuilder John McShea is finding cleverer ways to do things, from laser-guiding fastening positions to multi-purpose knees

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tool

Letters

Next month

Bringing clarity to varnish • Dave Selby reveals the trade secrets behind a perfect varnish finish


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 84 Publisher: Chelsea Magazine Edition: Sep 01 2021

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  • Release date: August 13, 2021

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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.

IT’S NEVER PLAIN SAILING

Classic Boat

CENTREBOARD KETCH • Saecwen of Lymington is a new strip-planked centreboard ketch, built by the Elephant Boatyard to a Nigel Irens design. Hardly run of the mill then…

BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK

Cowes Classics Week a huge success

Barges race on the Blackwater

Classic Yachts magazine

Arthur Beale moves to Portsmouth

Italian city gets its own classic yacht

Historic paddle steamer slipped

Original Mermaid

Classics at Southampton Boat Show • The Southampton International Boat Show, which runs from 10-19 September, is expanding in a big way this year and taking over more of the city. There is plenty lined up for classic boaters and others

TROY STORY TWO • Barbara’s first owner ordered her in 1947 with the money that should have been a deposit on a family home. Now she’s been rebuilt as new boat, with just her lead keel to remind her of the past

Saleroom

Objects of desire

Floating on her waterline • Will he ever get that waterline painted on right?

BOSUN’S BAG • PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

Sky’s no limit • His first design was for a 36ft sailing yacht. Now, Andrew Winch is designing a dozen super yachts, including the biggest the world has ever seen. Then there’s the jets and houses…

ON THE TRAIL OF THE REAL MR PIKE • Fred Mortimer, one of the last sailors of the age of sail, inspired Jack London to create the character Mr Pike in The Mutiny of The Elsinore

LESSONS IN SCHOONERING • For a top racing skipper with two transats under his belt, sailing a schooner to Haiti was going to be a piece of cake – right?

Ian ridgeway’s notes on ropes

Nat Benjamin’s next challenge

THE ISLE OF LIGHT • Off the French Mediterranean coast, famed for the big regattas at Cannes, Saint-Tropez and Antibes, a smaller regatta has been hiding in plain sight – for 18 years

GOING WITH THE FLOW • We’ve admired Nick Smith’s fiercely traditional gent’s harbour launches for years – finally, it was time to hear their story and have a go in one

Honey Bee

Getting afloat

Starling Burgess 8-M from history

Oldest wooden barge to be restored

MIND OVER MATTER • Boatbuilder John McShea is finding cleverer ways to do things, from laser-guiding fastening positions to multi-purpose knees

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tool

Letters

Next month

Bringing clarity to varnish • Dave Selby reveals the trade secrets behind a perfect varnish finish


Expand title description text