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.

THE TIDE IS TURNING

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NAEMA • The new yacht Naema draws from two great Mylne schooners of the past

1959 Vertue takes on modern fleet in Round Britain & Ireland Race

Classic class at Volvo Cork Week

Cowes Classics Week

Ranger is J-Class winner at Saint Barth’s

A smile for Skylark

Solo circumnavigator Les Powles, 1925-2022

Photography competition 2022

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THE Winners • After a huge voting turn-out, here are the winners of the 2022 Classic Boat Awards

Saleroom

Objects of desire

BOSUN’S BAG • PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

A life by the Deben • Robert Simper has spent his life writing about boats, from the very first issue of this magazine, and saving working vessels of the Thames Estuary

THE MUSKETEERS • After a modest debut in 1957, Giacomo Colombo launched his boatyard like a rocket in 1960 with a small series of four racing V8 ‘speedsters’

NORTH BY NORTHWEST • Buying a classic motor sailer in Dover meant a long, solo delivery trip home to Scotland for her new owner – whose last boat was a Drascombe

JACK FRANCIS JONES • We trace the diverse career of the sometimes-forgotten post-war English yacht designer Jack Francis Jones

ATKINS KETCH A YEAR FROM COMPLETION • Progress on the Acorn to Arabella project in Granby, Massachusetts

A MAN YOU WON’T MEET EVERY DAY • A wooden boat is the passport to meeting miraculous souls

Getting afloat

New and old, island and mainland

Lid goes onto Tally Ho

BBA launch day

Crypto payment for pre-war classic yachts

DON’T FEAR THE REAPER • Meet the team behind the conservation of Scotland’s fishing past

Boatbuilder’s Notes

SCREW CRAMP

Letters • LETTER OF THE MONTH SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY

Next month

When delivery trips go right • A trip on a temperemental trimaran ends up on the beaches of the Algarve for Dave Selby