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.

Time to rethink the Adela legacy?

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IMITATION GAME • The rebirth of Adela, this great WC Storey schooner, started in the heat of the big yacht restoration movement. Now under new ownership, she is back on the race course…

Metre yachts triumph

Tell Tales

Electric fleet on the Seine for the Paris Olympics

STRANGER THINGS • There is simply no other boat that will give you so much speed for so little cost. Nic Compton explores the history of proas and sails on a newly-built ‘shunting’ proa in Devon

Saleroom

It’s all about scale • Weighing up the advantages of owning a smaller yacht

SOUTHAMPTON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW 2024 • Time flies – it is already, somehow, that time of year. The 55th Southampton Boat Show is 13-22 September… And we’ve got a ticket discount for you!

DAS BOOT • A young German millionaire was crowned powerboating World Champion in Cannes in 1956. Decades later, his elegant racer built on the Rhine river was rediscovered and restored by its designer-builder’s son

BOATBUILDING IN BRITAIN • A look at a few of the British boatyards busy with a wide variety of projects on the go

EVERY SOLDIER WAS A SAILOR • It’s been a year of D-Day commemoration, without a hint of the of how D-Day actually worked. A visit to a re-enactment, on 6 June 80 years on, shed some light on the operation…

AND GOD CREATED… • Photographer David Yarrow’s dangerous game: recreating the wonder years of Saint-Tropez, Brigitte Bardot, and the boats she loved

CANADA BY SEA AND AIR • Exploring the remote north of British Columbia by yacht and classic seaplane was a childhood dream come true for bluewater sailor, aircraft pilot, photographer and author Ellen Massey Leonoard

CARIAD AWAY • In this, Part 2 of the restoration of Cariad, the Summers & Payne ketch, tribute is paid to the fine work carried out by mainly Thai craftsmen and women

Colour me happy • It’s not what you know…

Getting afloat

Boatbuilder’s Notes

ARCHIMEDES DRILL

Letters

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Trade of terror • Dave Selby on the Thames barge skipper’s most feared cargo