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.

It’s all about the crew

Classic Boat

TAKING FLIGHT • Falcon is 100 years old this year and a jewel in the Q Class crown, but her new owner has bigger plans for the Qs. Much bigger

All OK at the OGA

Tell Tales

ELECTRIC DREAMS • Re-powering forms part of any major restoration; here it was the driving force

Electrification | What to consider?

The boatbuilder’s tale: Dennis Nissen

A round-up of the latest BOOKS • Our pick of the new releases in the world of nautical publishing

Saleroom

Will spring ever, ever come? • Doing a Masefield, and going down to the sea again, doesn’t appeal in -70 C

CLASSIC EVENTS 2026

UK and Ireland

The Mediterranean

Northern Europe

USA

Rest of the world

NOT THE RETIRING TYPE • A new member has joined Sydney’s beloved Ranger class

SIR ROBIN • His exploits are legendary. His fitness regime is tobacco, whisky and salt air. We catch up with national treasure Sir Robin Knox-Johnston following another, well-deserved, accolade

CHART MASTER • The most important naval officer you’ve never heard of – Greenvile Collins, yacht captain and hydrographer – worked for three successive kings, singlehandedly hauled English chart-making out of the dark ages, and created the first modern pilot book

TOTALLY RIGGED • Canvas and cordage. Covered

Fastening fashion • A lecture in chainplate taste

MODERN CLASSICS • New Spirit of Tradition and traditional builds

Yard News

Herreshoff’s largest wooden schooner in restoration

Nicholson ocean racer returns

TAKING ON TALLY HO • Ben Harris’s audacious gamble to build a Malabar schooner to take on Tally Ho in the 1927 Fastnet…

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tools

Letters

Next month

START OF SEASON 6 ISSUES FOR £12 • Make the most of the season with Classic Boat. Practical advice, restoration tips, and the stories behind the boats you love. For sailors who enjoy the journey as much as the destination

The rites… and wrongs… of spring • Once you’ve remembered where your boat is, the carnage begins, writes Dave Selby