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 last of the giants

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LAST OF THE GIANTS • The rebirth of this great Summers & Payne ketch started in the heat of the big yacht restoration movement. After a false start, she’s finished…

Testing conditions

Spirit Yachts in the Channel Islands

Blue plaque for Morgan Giles

Darling of Christchurch returns to Yarmouth Old Gaffers

Southampton Boat Show

Swallow sinks in Chichester Harbour

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Faireys frolic off Suffolk coast

WEST SOLENT IN ARGENTINA • Toba is a fine example of a reborn West Solent One Design, which is now alive and kicking, and playing hard in Argentina

Saleroom

Top of the pops • Was America a one-trick pony?

LEARNING TO FLY • The new foiler from Spirit Yachts is more complex than an America’s Cup yacht. The future has arrived, and it’s built in wood

IN THE LAND OF THE WIZARD • A tank full of 'gas' and no particular place to go… CB hits the freeways in maritime New England

SCOTLAND’S SECRET • The archives of Britain’s greatest yacht designers have come home to Scotland, where they continue to ask questions of the past and raise possibilities for the future

ONE IN A MILLE • Mariquita wins second edition of the Richard Mille Cup after two weeks of intense racing

ON THE DOUBLE • The advice was don’t do it. But there was no stopping the 1930-built 12-M Princess Svanevit from joining the modern fleet at this year’s Raymarine 2 Star, as her skipper relates

Ultimate eye candy • No need for ugly boats

Yard News

Getting afloat

WAY UP NORTH • Johnson and Loftus classic boat yard at Ullapool, Scotland

Boatbuilder’s Notes

GILBOW TIN SNIPS

Letters • LETTER OF THE MONTH SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY

Next month

A golden era to be alive • Butch Dalyrymple-Smith on a life lived in a century of abundance when the stars were your GPS and the Solent your testing tank