Founded in 1826 by the Royal Yacht Club (now the Royal Yacht Squadron, the Cowes Week 200th Anniversary is fast approaching. As a pinnacle of the British sailing regatta calendar year in, year out, ...
Sadly the race around the Ile de Bréhat had to be abandoned when the wind died soon after the start, and the fleet was then ...
As one of the largest wooden boat regattas in the world, the Eggemoggin Reach Race brings over 100 classic wooden sailing yachts to the coastal waters of Downeast Maine every August. The 41st edition ...
On the Friday, a constant 12-knot easterly saw Cambria enjoying herself, romping through the field, only her racing handicap ...
Identifying boats by their sailing rig – the specific setup of their masts and sails – is one of the greatest joys of being near, or out on, the water. Across the classic yacht racing classes it’s ...
I’m standing on the deck of Irina VII on a damp February day in Sète, on the shores of the Mediterranean. The weather is grim and it feels more like Irina’s native Scotland that the South of France.
The 82-foot classic yacht Agneta, a historic 1950 Knud Reimers vessel, has been undergoing an extensive restoration by Stirling and Son, but that’s not all that’s going on in the Plymouth yard. In ...
His exploits are legendary. His fitness regime is tobacco, whisky and salt air. We catch up with national treasure Sir Robin Knox-Johnston following another, well-deserved, accolade. For a man who has ...
There were some historical wins at last summer’s Cannes Régates Royales, with some boats taking clean sweep victories, Nigel Sharp reports. At the end of September last summer the Régates Royales in ...
The clinker-built Stella boats have found the elixir of eternity: it’s a cocktail of glassfibre and epoxy, Nigel Sharp tells us. For every joyous and triumphant restoration featured in Classic Boat ...
Quisisana was a stock build from Thonycroft in 1927. Now, after a complete rebuild, she’s anything but stock – impressing the crowds at the Ramsgate anniversary crossing, Steffan Meyric Hughes tells ...
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