We welcome new writing especially if it inspires us and our readers to make the best of our boats! So your cruising stories are very welcome! We also welcome news of the many brilliant events and festivals or features passing on the skills and experience that characterise and differentiate the classic sailor. So we love good practical stories or how-to features as well.
We began as a magazine in 2015, but we were still a start-up company when our founder David Walker died in the summer of 2017 and from December 2017 we have been publishing news and features online.
How to use this site:
The News is carried on our front page; keep scrolling down to see more news. Go-to-News is from our friends in industry and can be found on the front page and in our Go-to Guide directory. The directory is divided in categories and by area and is specialised for yachtsmen, boaters, boat restorers and marine art.
We run a range of features – Our Stories which can also be found using the Our stories button on the navigation bar, or clicking the porthole on the front page.
Events are also found on the navigation bar and we try to keep up with a lot of Events so we welcome submissions – be it a boat jumble or a regatta. Please write to editor@classicsailor.com.
All 18 of our print issues are now online; click: HERE. Also please see our archive using the navigate button or pasting this url into your browser:Â https://classicsailor.com/magazine-archive/
You can also see a synopsis of all the magazines in our archive on this link:Â CS ARCHIVE
You can still buy single paper copies of many of our past issues from this website. Just click on the SHOP button – which is also on our homepage.
Fair winds! Dan Houston – Editor
Some of Classic Sailor’s contributors


His writing is informed by his own sailing experiences, especially in small gaffers like his Cornish Shrimper which he has cruised to several out-of-the-way places.
He also edits and runs the Marine Quarterly – a digest on maritime affairs
Contributors
Get in touch
If you’d like to contribute to Classic Sailor then please get in touch by emailing editor@classicsailor.com