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A pool at the London Boat Show
For years – since the Boat Show moved away from Earls Court and into the ExCel centre across town in 2004, there have been calls for boats in the pool – a one time central feature of the show. So it was interesting to see the new Shrimper 21 from Cornish Crabbers tied up and […]
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A Zulu?
What this place needs is a proper Zulu – the pinnacle of the Scottish lugger design at the end of the 19th century. Plumb stem and with a radically raked stern post – of 45 degrees, typically these deep sea trawlers and herring drifters would be 70ft long and sail out to the north Atlantic. […]
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Living on a barge – Humber Keel Daybreak
Living on a barge offers a romantic lifestyle enjoyed by the waterborne community and for many it’s a dream – to get away from it all, especially if your barge is seaworthy and can travel along the coast or via inland waterways. But what is it really like to be liveaboards like this? The January […]
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Cate Blanchett – in our news pages
Cate Blanchett Our quay people for this month’s issue features the actor Cate Blanchett, who is set to star in a film of the story of the Saxon burial ship excavations at Sutton Hoo in the 1930s. We have news of the two year apprentices scheme for National Historic Ships, a report from the Clovelly […]
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January’s issue arrives!
We hope you like our latest issue – No4, January, which is in the shops now. Our cover feature is sailing L’Hermione a replica French frigate whose captain we interview for a piece on living history. The ship is amazing he reports, more stable, more easy to handle and more fast than they had at […]
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Julian Mustoe’s Folksong Harrier of Down sinks
When the steering failed on Julian Mustoe’s 25ft yacht Harrier of Down in the North Sea, he sent a radio message to the Shetland Lifeboat, and in doing so initiated both media headlines (in which he was derogatively described as “an 82-year-old pensioner”) and a chain of events which led to the total loss of […]
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The winning ways of Whooper
Meet Giovanni Belgrano – one of our featured classic sailors in the December edition, who takes racing his 1939 Giles one-off design to new heights as he tweaks her rig and systems, and trains his crew with an almost Olympic approach to get her winning against much more modern yachts in IRC classes – including […]
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Should Stellas be made in GRP?
We have some news from the Stella Association in our December issue – the class is mainly east coast based and has eschewed GRP since it was designed by Kim Holman in 1959. Elsewhere in the issue, in an article about the Folkboat-derived GRP boats we ask our readers which is their favourite classic glassfibre […]
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How to survive the America’s Cup
Contributing editor Guy Venables visited Bermuda recently to witness the pre-flight competition of the America’s Cup – which began in Spithead this summer (and will wind up back in Bermuda with the big foilers in 2017). His latest report is in our December edition and makes compelling reading, in fact we challenge you not to […]
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The Coble… or is that Cobble?
Author and fishing industry historian Mike Smylie has a regular spot in Classic Sailor where each month he describes one of the archetypal craft that were developed to fish off the British coast. We started with Cornish luggers and then the Scottish Scaffie; this month we are round on the north east coast with the […]