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.

Classic Boat

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INTO THE BLUE • The 95ft Ouzel achieves a carefully judged three-way balance between graceful looks, sailing simplicity and state-of-the-art performance

Doon The Watter

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ORIGINAL SURVIVOR • Guide of Dunkirk is almost entirely original, from her hull to the boxes that carried her crew’s lunches. And that’s how she’s going to stay

Saleroom • The only column dedicated to marine antiquities, collectables and auctions

Engine apropos too many choices • Reflections on propulsion, chapter 173

THE GREATS • Andre Hoek, Gerard Dykstra and Paul Spooner are Spirit of Tradition pioneers who have played leading roles in the J Class revival

RACING CERTAINTY • One of Dykstra’s most recent design projects, we reported on the Q7 build story in the August issue. Having recently competed at the Puig Vela Classica, Victoria was finally able to stretch her legs in race conditions. We caught up Q7 Yacht Design’s Peter Silvester and Mario Diez after a wet and wild day off Barcelona.

LOST AT SEA • Thankfully fictional, though worryingly familiar, we join a 14-year-old boy as he accidentally skippers a yacht across the North Sea, with no experience and only his younger siblings as crew

KINGDOM OF HAVEN • Tom Cunliffe picks some of the most interesting yacht harbours he’s visited around the British Isles

DRAG ACT • Sailors tend to form strong opinions about anchor types and anchoring techniques. Here’s some food for thought from a seasoned skipper with plenty of first-hand practical experience

Not forgotten • Seafarers’ legacy lives on in chapels and boats

MODERN CLASSICS • New Spirit of Tradition and traditional builds

Yard News

MATERIAL QUESTIONS • With a technical background in world cruising, this Southampton boatyard is still fully immersed in proper shipwright work

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tools

ROPE & KNOTS • This month we move on to the more advanced sailmaker’s whipping…

Letters

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Always the boat, never the deal • As part of our look at the new build market, Carl Richardson reflects on the realities of niche boat building and the vagaries of buyer motivations