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  • Classic Boat2 min read
    Saleroom
    Virgil Exner, an art-trained stylist rather than industrial designer, transformed the American automotive landscape with his 1956 “Forward Look” Chrysler models that spearheaded the flamboyant fins and chrome era. So ahead of the curve was Exner that
    Classic Boat3 min read
    Letters
    LETTER OF THE MONTH SUPPORTED BY OLD PULTENEY WHISKY Fifty years ago, at the age of 20, I was crew aboard the 51ft (15.5m) catamaran Tehini as we sailed out of Portsmouth alongside the fleet of participants of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World race.
    Classic Boat1 min read
    British Summer Time
    The term 'British Summer Time' is quite literal in its intent (it’s UTC + 01:00 after all, and some even call it that), but who can fail, hearing those words, to hear a sail rustle as it fills in a summer breeze? Who doesn't feel a wooden deck or gra
    Classic Boat11 min read
    Double Act
    The Summer Isles lie off Loch Broom in the northwest of Scotland, where the largest – Tanera Mor – was sold in 2017 to Ian Wace who has funded a sympathetic yet thorough restoration programme around the island that has remained inhabited throughout t
    Classic Boat7 min read
    Power And Glory
    Displacement craft are the oldest of all vessels, dating back to when man first sat astride a log. The maximum speed of a displacement vessel is limited by its wave-making: at maximum displacement speed its transverse wave length will equal that of i
    Classic Boat2 min read
    Next Month
    We’re bringing you all the action from the Richard Mille Cup in the Channel, back in England and France after a successful first year in 2023. The West Solent One Design, with its pure aesthetic, is the epitome of an inter-war English racing yacht. T
    Classic Boat6 min read
    Tell Tales
    Follow the Classic Boat team on Twitter and Facebook A new ‘Cruiser Yachts’ is being launched at this year’s Argentario Sailing Week (12-16 June). “This was a long-awaited decision”, explains Gigi Rolandi, newly elected chairman of AIVE (Associazione
    Classic Boat4 min read
    Finnish Line
    There’s an old Nordic saying – “There are three kinds of men. The living; the dead - and those who go to sea.” Tapio Lehtinen is unashamedly one of the last, and if he can do so in a Sparkman & Stephens design, then so much the better. The Finn certa
    Classic Boat3 min read
    Yard News
    Edited by Steffan Meyric Hughes Email steffan@classicboat.co.uk Nothing tells the story of the huge increase in ship size over millennia more than the sight of a large ship of a past era on the deck of a large ship of our current one. This photo show
    Classic Boat4 min read
    Smack Lover
    Back in the nineteenth century the smacksmen of Essex did a lot more to turn a few pounds than dredge oysters. Crews of the larger boats turned their hands to piloting, life-saving and salvaging far away down the channels of the Thames approaches, in
    Classic Boat2 min read
    New Event For Luggers
    Lugger fest was the first traditional boat gathering to meet in Ullapool, North West Scotland, at the newly expanded harbour. Central to the event were two locally-restored, engineless luggers, the St Vincent and Clan Gordon, plus the visiting Barnab
    Classic Boat1 min read
    Classic Boat
    Editor Steffan Meyric Hughes steffan@classicboat.co.uk Art Editor Gareth Lloyd Jones Sub Editor Sue Pelling Publisher Simon Temlett Portfolio manager Hugo Segrave Tel: +44 (0)7707 167729 hugo.segrave@chelseamagazines.com Director of Media James Dobso
    Classic Boat7 min read
    Monument To Joy
    The fleet of 800 or more small, civilian vessels that sailed from England to save Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo has become a central pillar of British identity. At the same time, the story of these Dunkirk little ships
    Classic Boat2 min read
    Getting Afloat
    To regular readers of this magazine, Sally II, a Laurent Giles 5-tonner, built in 1937, sail number V2, might be the most famous yacht in the world! Columnist Adrian Morgan has been describing adventures aboard her, monthly for nearly three decades i
    Classic Boat2 min read
    Getting A Grip On Saw Sharpening
    The proprietary saw filers’ vice was a cumbersome iron affair with narrow lever-operated jaws, long made obsolete by disposable hard-point saws, and now fetching high sums as a collectors’ item. Traditional high carbon steel hand saws are still made,
    Classic Boat8 min read
    Star Of Sydney
    Designed by Wally Ward in Sydney for a family friend in 1948, sisterships Caress and Camira were a development from his original very successful designs, Janaway 1937 and Jasnar 1944. Caress and Camira were the first of the CAs which hold a distingui
    Classic Boat3 min read
    Rule Britannia
    Where is Britannia? Racing alongside the revived J Class, Fifes and Herreshoffs gracing the classic circuit, a reincarnation of the most famous yacht of them all is conspicuously absent: K1, the Kings’ yacht, the remains of which lie, according to HM
    Classic Boat2 min read
    Goldenberg Planes
    Continental tool manufacturers continued making wooden planes long after their British counterparts had surrendered to the competition of mechanically adjustable cast iron planes from the USA. This simple and inexpensive smoother made by Goldenberg o
    Classic Boat1 min read
    Light Fantastic
    The Cowes Spring Classics weekend kicked off on a Friday afternoon in May with welcome drinks on the pontoon at Shepards Wharf Marina where Merry Maid – the 1906 Charles Sibbick linear rater, owned and newly restored by Martin Nott, co-organiser of t
    Classic Boat4 min read
    Taking Up Is Hard To Do
    For sheer entertainment there is very little more enjoyable than watching a wooden boat sink. I know that sounds heartless, and that’s exactly what it is, because plastic boat owners like me are a soulless and heathenistic bunch. Now that I’m also a
    Classic Boat3 min read
    The Sails Team
    The east coast branch of OneSails (there is a Solent shop too), is not much to look at from the outside; just another of those squat, brick buildings that sit on marina hards up and down the country. It’s actually the closest possible experience to w
    Classic Boat8 min read
    Madame De La Mer
    A record 23 countries took part in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, racing in three categories: the Twelve Foot Dinghy, the 6-Metre and the 8-Metre classes. The racing was particularly close in the 8-Metre class, where eight teams competed in seven ra
    Classic Boat9 min read
    Tales Of The Unexpected
    As an east coast lass, I always felt slightly ashamed that, other than racing my National 12 on the north-west coast during North West Norfolk Week many years ago, I had somehow managed to bypass the Broads. I truly believe the reason was a vision I
    Classic Boat2 min read
    French Summertime
    Les Voiles D’Antibes launched the Mediterranean circuit for Classic Yachts. Regulars Tuiga, Hallowe’en and Mariella were joined by Black Swan and 60 or more classics. Stretching down the race village at Port Vauban, centuries of sailing history were
    Classic Boat3 min read
    The Clinker Kings
    I knew two boatbuilders, designers both. One lived in the piney woods of South Georgia, Thomasville, close by the Florida border, the other in a tiny croft house at Bernisdale on the Isle of Skye. Robb was an American, whose idiosyncratic method of b
    Classic Boat2 min read
    Shamrock V relaunched
    One of the world’s most iconic racing yachts returns to the water after historic multi-year restoration. The 1930 America’s Cup challenger Shamrock V, known as ‘The Queen of the J Class’, was relaunched in May at Saxon Wharf, Southampton, Hampshire,
    Classic Boat4 min read
    The Riva Believer
    At the time when Rolls Royce and Bentley cars were comparable, Carlo Riva said: “If my boats are Rolls, the Arcangeli are Bentleys.” It was a great tribute to a less famous boatyard that was nonetheless passionate about quality. Despite reasonable am
    Classic Boat4 min read
    How To Make Money Buying Boats
    The first golden rule when considering buying a wooden boat is… don’t. The second golden rule is that if someone offers to give you a wooden boat for free it will cost you even more. The third golden rule is that when you’ve fallen in love with that
    Classic Boat2 min read
    Saleroom
    The gargantuan Type 41 Royale limousine, of which just six were built, is considered to be Ettore Bugatti’s great white elephant. Rather rarer is the Bugatti Type 75 You-You, a yacht tender produced in Paris in the early post-WW2 years as the once pr
    Classic Boat11 min read
    Life Savers
    Since the earliest lifeboats in the late 1700s, up until the 1920s, most ‘service boats’ of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution were sail-and-oar designs. The use of sails extended the range of a lifeboat and made for a less exhausted crew once t

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