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.

What is a classic?

Classic Boat

SAVING THE MALABARS • Saving an Alden-designed Malabar was no easy task for Alex Child… particularly when you consider he was starting with a sunken wreck

Racing on Island Time

Princess Svanevit completes Raymarine 2 Star

Shamrock V relaunched

Richard Mille Cup ready for the off

D-Day voyage for HMS Medusa

Centenarian Bootlegger, 1922

New docu series on women in sailing

Don Street 1930-2024 • Legend of Caribbean pilotage and old-style mariner and story-teller

PASSING ON THE FLAME • Eric Tabarly’s ever-green Whitbread maxi Pen Duick VI never won a round-the-world yacht race… until now, when she was first over the line in the recent Ocean Globe Race. The skipper this time was his daughter – Marie Tabarly

Saleroom

The clinker kings • Two masters of lightweight clinker build

THE RIVA BELIEVER • Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as Carlo Riva himself acknowledged, when he compared the Arcangeli Commander to a Bentley, level with his own Riva Ariston – the Rolls Royce

NEW MODEL NAVY • The fine art of model making in Mauritius is afloat with talent

REMEMBERING D DAY • The late Jim Radford was the youngest soldier present on the beaches of Normandy 70 years ago

LIFE SAVERS • A look at the designs of RNLI working craft through the ages, and the evolution that led to the rapid powerboats in service today

ELECTRIC DREAMS • Will Stirling’s 57th solid timber clinker, roved dinghy was going to be the same as the others – only this time with electric power

A round-up of the latest BOOKS • The latest releases in the world of nautical publishing take in the story of yachting on the Clyde, an artist’s visit to Antarctica, the story of our coastal seas and more

BUT IS IT A CLASSIC? • Sir Robin’s first non-stop, solo circumnavigation, Abbey Road and the Moon landing can all be considered ‘classic’. What about Britain’s best-selling cabin yacht of all time, also born in 1969?

Need for speed • Rising above the competitive spirit

Getting afloat

Craftsmans Yard News

TRURO TREASURES • Rhoda Mary Shipyard in Truro is bustling with business with plans afoot to expand the yard further to continue its work with historically important boats

Boatbuilder’s Notes

THOR HAMMERS

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