Sailing a Rival 34 for our eighth issue made me very tempted to harness the wind and just get on over the horizon. I was instantly attracted to the easy movement and that cushioned sense of suspension – or a lack of heave if you will, that I normally associate with well-designed wooden boats. I [...]
One of our best regular features covers the great number of glassfibre classics that are out there. It's written by Federico Nardi, of Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario, in Italy and he knows his boats! (Translation is by the photographer James Robinson Taylor.) We've done 12 of them now and there are more to come. One of [...]
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! Simon Cooper is a man on a mission. He is experimenting with the use of natural resins and fibres derived [...]
