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.

Life, as it should be.

Classic Boat

FLY AWAY, WHIRLWIND • Whirlwind II is a true catboat, imagined by her owner Yarrow Thorne and built by Artisan Boatworks in Maine

Late summer sun

Broads racing

Tell Tales

STELLA’S A STORY • The clinker-built Stella yachts have found the elixir of eternity: it’s a cocktail of glassfibre and epoxy

Saleroom

Seeing the world upside-down • Some things are clearer seen upside-down between your legs

TRAILER DELUXE • The Duchy 25 from Cockwells is a development of the popular 27, but the new baby in the range is powered by an outboard and ready to hit the roads

CAMPER BELLEZZA • Owned and restored by naval architect Alessandro Vismara, this 1895 Camper & Nicholsons yacht has returned to the water after decades on land

WILD RIDE • The boat wasn’t ocean ready and there was a weather warning in place. But the voyage from Hawaii to Kona had to be made now or never

BROKERAGE REPORT • Representing every type of classic, a select group of brokers give us their take on the health of the market, the patterns, prices and challenges they are seeing, and what advice they would give buyers

THE RIVER

THE TRADITIONAL SPECIALISTS

LARGE YACHT MARKET

THE USA

MOTOR YACHT SPECIALIST

RISKY BUSINESS • How do insurers view wooden and older boat risk and is it getting harder to find cover?

Surveys

The wheel turns • Old Bentleys and old boats live forever

MODERN CLASSICS • New Spirit of Tradition and traditional builds

America’s oldest yacht re-rigged

Strange but new

The Fife and the wife

Huff of Arklow to be restored

THE MAN O’ WAR METHOD • This Maine yard is a world leader in SoT yachts, but they do pretty much anything; it’s all about having the right approach

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tools

Letters

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Narrowboating: the ultimate extreme sport • Surely it should be in the next Olympics, says Dave Selby