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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SHEPHERD’S DELIGHT • Despite set backs, yacht manager Enrico Zaccagni persevered with the restoration of a Fred Shepherd gem

Way out west

Tell Tales

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RACING TUMLARE • To some, the Tumlare is the comeliest yacht of all. This one also has a record-breaking string of victories and now new owners who have rebuilt her

Saleroom

Objects of desire

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BOSUN’S BAG • PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

Yacht whisperer • Engineer by profession and sailor by calling, Enrico Zaccagni has overseen many of the great restoration projects of recent years

THE BIG TIME • The event of the year so far has been the inaugural Richard Mille Cup, which attracted a rare fleet of largely pre-WW1 cutters and schooners for a series of historic races on the English south coast and across the Channel to France

The competing boats

THE LOST DIARY • A surprise book of evidence helps tie up the missing pieces in the puzzle of the history of the illustrious Jolie Brise

THE PRICE OF NOTHING… AND THE VALUE OF EVERYTHING • If we fail to create a culture that values yachts as highly as art or rare cars, their future is uncertain, said William Collier at this year’s Classic Yacht Symposium in Helsinki

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POWER GAMES • It’s no secret that ‘new classic’ motorboats are a fast-growing area. Here we present some of our favourites on the market today in planing, semi displacement and displacement categories

SALE AWAY • When it was time to let Wendy May go, Max Liberson knew just who the new owner had to be

Getting afloat

A SHEDFUL OF ADVENTURE • Tom recalls one of his many epic voyages when he was a lad, this time aboard a 70-tonne Brixham trawler

Yard News

Peregrine back on the water in Cowes

It ain’t over ’til it’s over

Last sailing whitebaiter in restoration

BIG IDEAS AND BIG BOATS • Sam Fulford’s Cowes yard is steaming ahead with new projects

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tool

Letters • LETTER OF THE MONTH SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY

Next month

Considering an Electric Outboard? • “Using a well-engineered electric outboard has been a revelation.”

A new kind of night watch • Dave Selby ditches his best mate for new friends… with a bigger, better boat