Classic Sailor Magazine Archive
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Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 10 – July 2016
Our July issue – trailer sailing We're looking at the trailer sailer this month, with the start of a four part guide into owning and sailing one. With a cabin and towed behind a family [...]
Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 9 – June 2016
Our June issue – a bucolic feast If you have a boat with the right draught you can get from the muddy creeks of the east coast to the rocky west of England without having [...]
Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 8 – May 2016
Our May issue features the 1972 Rival 34 Wild Rival - she has been restored by her owners with new coatings and her hull and deck look new again. What a great ocean going boat! [...]
Classic Sailor Issue 7 – April 2016
Our April issue has a cover story on Cleone - the claim is that she is Britain's oldest, or one Britain's oldest yachts... so naturally we look into that. Beautiful boat nonetheless! The paper magazine [...]
Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 6 – March 2016
Cruising to round Cape Horn, rowing down the Mississippi, surveying epoxy and serving with marline... it's another packed issue! The paper version sold out but you can still read it online (see link below). The [...]
Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 5 February 2016
THE ISSUE WE TOOK TO THE LONDON BOAT SHOW ...with a look at long keels and why they make for such seaworthy craft, two great S&S GRP classics, how it feels to own and run [...]
Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 4 January 2016
THE NEW YEAR... How does an 18th century Frigate design handle at sea? Surprisingly well we learn as the sailors of Hermione relay a new found respect for the builders and designers of historic vessels [...]
Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 3 December 2015
GETTING INTO OUR STRIDE… Marking a clear direction for the magazine, we featured 9 classic boats in GRP and asked you for the 10th. (Clear winner was the Contessa 32 in our January letters pages [...]
Classic Sailor Magazine – Issue 2
WE'RE SORRY BUT THIS SOLD OUT IN A FEW WEEKS; WE SHOULD HAVE PRINTED MORE Our second edition was in home waters with coverage of the Maldon Regatta, a handy guide on using Dyneema and [...]
October 2015 – Issue No 1
THE DASH FOR DINARD WITH GRIFF Our first issue was an exciting time for us. We were at the Southampton Boatshow for the launch. It seems like long time ago now… We featured: Griff Rhys-Jones [...]