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 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

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FIELD WITH DREAMS • Cinderella treatment for UandI – the Fife racer back on top form

BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK

Tell Tales

ANGELS WATCH OVER HER • The fishing boat Angele Aline has survived Dunkirk, two sinkings and a few mine explosions. Today, she lives in a museum and sails with the family who own her

Saleroom

Objects of desire

Perfection is overrated • You know you’re in love when flaws turn into features

BOSUN’S BAG • PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

A LIFE UNEARTHED – FRANK MORGAN GILES • The first biography of Frank Morgan Giles will soon be published, and those who thought they knew him might be in for a surprise

CELEBRATION OF A DYNASTY • It only happens roughly every five years, but when it does, many consider it the greatest show on earth. And this year, it was the biggest gathering of Fife yachts ever recorded

FROM A PAINTED SHIP, A PAINTED SEA • Ahead of a new exhibition, Dick Durham sails with painter Martyn Mackrill, regular illustrator of our Bosun’s Bag column, to the East Coast and Holland, aboard the artist’s yacht Nightfall

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A POST-WAR DREAM • The Insam, a 1945 prototype of a series never produced, was found 20 years later in the laboratory of a genius inventor by a schoolboy in love with its avant-garde design

DUST IN THE BILGES • Owners of Kim Holman’s classic, clinker-built Stella-class yachts have found a new way to face a leak-free future

Getting afloat

Yard News

WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE • She may be based on a farm in north Norfolk, but Abbey Molyneux is quickly building a name for herself in boat restoration

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tool

Letters • LETTER OF THE MONTH SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY

Next month

The antidote to spiritual malaise • Martin van der Wal ponders on his illusion of solified energy - his yacht, in other words