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.
SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED
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KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY • This Frers-designed ketch was designed by German Frers Sr in the 40s, but never built until now. This year, the design was finally born as the new Frers family yacht
Frers passion in print
Plans unveiled for new classic museum
Tonino, 1911
Apprenticeship started by Menai Straits owners
Charity seeks £1.5m to buy boat
10 years of Gstaad YC's Centenary Trophy
Fife regatta in 2022
Brixham Heritage Regatta
Antigua plans ahead
Freight by schooner
More power in the tide than the wind
A NEW SET OF CANVAS • We select seven works from the 2021 edition of the RSMA show at the Mall Galleries in London, but lots more are available be seen online
BROADS SAILER BUILT IN GLASS • At 30ft, the new Broads cruiser from Marthan Boats offers good accommodation for a family of five, a great turn of speed, and the ease of maintenance of a glassfibre hull
Saleroom
Objects of desire
Sailing over rooftops • Adrian’s other boat is a glider…
BOSUN’S BAG • PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER
Mission impossible • Jeff Rutherford, who has been behind the world-leading restoration of the schooner Coronet, is one of those boatbuilders you call when you want the impossible
A round-up of the latest BOOKS • The lastest releases in the world of maritime publishing are as eclectic as ever, from fiction to travel to practical and historical
LICENCE TO THRILL • We take a ride on a motorboat legend – the Huntsman 28, star of the Cowes-Torquay races and the silver screen
CLOSE-HAULED TO HAWAII • Upwind for 2,400 miles is a lot more comfortable in a Boeing 747… but then you wouldn’t see the great profusion of marine mammal life
Passage planning
ALDEBURGH YACHT CLUB AGAINST THE ELEMENTS • Over more than a century, the east coast club has faced storms and floods, and its photo albums have recorded it all, since day one
BOB MCNEIL’S AMAZING LEGACY • When yacht conservator Robert ‘Bob’ McNeil died in July, the world of classic sailing lost a collector of singular taste, whose vessels included a superlative steam yacht and one of the largest restorations ever tackled
Getting afloat
Rhode Runner
Yard News
Pocket cruiser arrives on piggy back
Eco-friendly painting facility
FINISHING SCHOOL • The yard that does it all, but specialises in finishing
Boatbuilder’s Notes
PINCERS
Letters
Next month
30 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 1991, CB40
Accelerated learning • Unburdened by knowledge, you can think freely and spend wantonly, says Dave Selby