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 a smack and the inspiration of Jack London and the trials and adventures, not to mention the exorbitant costs, of [...]
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 by the way) We also ran a feature on Whooper's owner and crew and how they train to keep on [...]
In the January issue of Classic Sailor David Parker continues to restore his Mirror dinghy. Having done the preparation he is now onto retaping seams - putting strength back into the boat and fairing with a thickened mix of epoxy. Mirror dinghies have been around since 1962 and more than 70,000 have been built. Many [...]
