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Bosun's Bag

Practical Tips For The Traditional Boater

Simon Winter- Insuring The Past

What is an old yacht worth? Deciding such matters is Simon Winter’s bread and butter

Yawls In The Sun

A baby cries as she rubs sand into her eye while nearby two boys are digging a moat around their castle. Prone on a sunlounger, mum glances from behind the pages of a magazine as a handful of seemingly identical wooden sailing boats glide past on the afternoon breeze, yards off the beach.

Olof Hildebrand, Classic Swedish Yachts

Yes, I think so. In the 1970s I worked as a lawyer and sailing was my hobby.

She's A Terror

A Paul Gartside design built by a financial insurance manager turned boatbuilder

Do You Deserve Her?

Hard-standing and wooden boats don’t go together

Tom Cunliffe Soul Starter

Another bump and the whole ship shuddered. It was now or never....

A Poignant Wrack Protected

A century on, Dick Durham visits a German U-boat wreck in Kentish marshland

Secrets of a long life

If it’s not broke, don’t fix it or, as it were, maintain it.

Perfect Composition

The 1937 Alden sloop Sonata was found dead in a Mallorcan forest. Just look at her now

Bosun's Bag

PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

Hamble Classics A Friendly Fleet

The second edition of the event was as successful as the first, cementing its place as a season-closer for classic boats of all shapes and sizes

Racing On Thalia

Sailing en famille at Hamble Classics on an 1888 gaff cutter...with a puppy dog?

'Wind-Driven Locomotive'

That’s how The Who guitarist Pete Townshend described the Jack Laurent Giles sloop Pazienza. After a long-term refit by her current owners, has she still got the magic?

David Boyd The Fairlie Years

Known for designing British 12-Metres for the America's Cup, David Boyd also made a significant contribution to the legend of William Fife III

Tom Cunliffe- Days Of Yore

Oil lamps and paper charts contribute much to the atmosphere on board a traditional boat

A Shed Load Of Work

The characterful yard that will restore anything – so long as it is a woodie with soul

Flying Dutchman

She transported wartime spies, she was a royal yacht and now, owned by an Italian count, she cruises out of Italy and Menorca. Not bad for a one-time Dutch pilot schooner

Yacht Stylist Martha Coolidge

I’ve come to realise I don’t actually like cruising. I much prefer racing.

1963 Admiral's Cup- Team Mates Afloat

They inspired a generation of yachtsmen with a famous win in the fourth Admiral’s Cup. Today, they’re still doing what they were designed to do – race!

Sternpost- Saving No1, Hope

Clare McComb had to be yachting historian and detective to save a historic dinghy

Bosun's Bag

PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER

JS Race In Bermuda

The biggest ever gathering of the class in its history and a historic return to the America’s Cup

Sailing On Joshua

Bernard Moitessier’s yacht from the 1968 Golden Globe race almost perished in a Mexican hurricane. But she’s still sailing in Brittany and is coming to England next year

How To Build A Boat In Japan

An ancient tradition of wooden boatbuilding is facing extinction, but one American is trying to document the craft before it disappears

Ultimate Planing Machine

The 328 Roadster helped to make BMW famous, but a hydroplane powered by the same motor was left to gather dust in a shed for half-a-century. Until now...