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.

Things worth fighting for

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GENTLEMAN’S RELISH • War, woe and sinkings should have ended Cachalot several times over. Her survival today is testament to owners Steve and Beverley Daley-Yates. We found them in Ramsgate, ahead of the Dunkirk Return

Cachalot timeline

FIRST WHISPERS OF SUMMER

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Tell Tales

BIRD WATCHING • Having migrated north, six Tasman Seabirds are now thriving in Queensland

King of bling

The pique of a leak • Beware the score of too long ashore

BOATBUILDER 2.0 • Dan Lee is part of the modern generation of wooden boatbuilders, whose practice revolves around YouTube, CAD and CNC

TENDER FOR LIFE • The motor yacht Atlantide was commissioned at the height of the depression as a racing yacht tender, a role she performs to this day

SAILING SCOTLAND’S DISTILLERIES • Like many best-laid plans afloat, alcohol was involved in the inception of a yacht tour of Scotland’s distilleries

FAIRY TALE COME TRUE • The Fairy One-Design keelboats are among the first examplars of the one-design conecpt, born in Ireland. They’re doing just fine to this day

A WOMAN CALLED PETER • The intrepid Peter Pears was a great force in leading women to the water

PURITANS, PIONEERS AND THE GENESIS OF CRUISING • Sam Jefferson looks at the intriguing characters who pioneered the pursuit we know and love

Oysters and wine • The day Eric Tabarly came aboard

Getting Afloat

NORTH OF THE QE2 BRIDGE • After visiting Fox’s and Woodbridge boatyards, it was time for CB’s Steffan Meyric Hughes and the ‘Spike Crew’ to travel south to Essex and north to Norfolk

Yard News

Boatbuilder’s Notes

Traditional Tool

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The little ships return • With the loss of the last Dunkirk veteran, the job of remembrance falls to the little ships, says Steffan Meyric