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    Saleroom
    Forgive the punning headline but as the immortal JClass survivor Shamrock V emerges from her latest restoration, racing flags have been unearthed that bring to life the deep connection between the working sailors and smacksmen of Essex and the finest
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    Boatbuilding In Europe
    While Ventis has been restoring and building wooden boats since 1994, its sister company, specialist spar makers Brasker Masten, was founded in 1970. Currently under construction is the first of the 8.5m (27.9ft) ‘modern classic day sailers’ V850. Th
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    Charles William ‘Bill’ Lapworth
    Born in 1919, Lapworth graduated from the University of Michigan in 1941 with a degree in naval architecture and marine engineering. During the remainder of World War Two he served as a naval officer in the Bureau of Ships at Quincy, Massachusetts an
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    Classic Boat
    Editor Steff an Meyric Hughes [email protected] Art Editor Gareth Lloyd Jones Sub Editor Sue Pelling Publisher Simon Temlett Portfolio manager Hugo Segrave Tel: +44 (0)7707 167729 [email protected] Director of Media Marie Davi
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    Fairey Tale 2.0
    If Charles Lawrence were ever to enter Mastermind, his specialist subject would undoubtedly be the history of Fairey Marine. His office and garage are piled high with more than 2,000 drawings and 100,000 photos and documents which he has scanned into
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    Fifth Truly Classic 128 launched
    The latest Hoek-designed Truly Classic 128 has been launched by SES Yachts, bringing the total number of these aluminium-hulled classic superyachts to five, alongside her sloop-rigged sisterships Atalante, Vijonara, Grace III and Halekai. This one, L
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    Summer Breeze
    Phil Cotton first dipped his toe into the world of classic boats in 2019 when he bought an 8-ton Gauntlet called Nausikaa which had been built by Berthon Boat Co in 1939. Having started sailing as a child, he soon developed a taste for racing fast di
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    The 173-year Wait For Victory
    It seems impossible not to kick this issue off with an entirely irrelevant mention of the America's Cup, which is nearing the crux for the two teams battling it out for the right to challenge the defenders and reigning champions – New Zealand. Those
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    A Round-up Of The Latest BOOKS
    For all its popularity, there is a gap in the market for a book that teaches you the basics of sailing a tall ship. There are ‘tall ship’ charters, then there are the thousands upon thousands of young people who, for decades, have found themselves at
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    Boatbuilder’s Notes
    Reamers are hardened cutting tools used for widening holes, especially by engineers and machinists but which used to be common among the bits for a shipwright’s swing brace. Where a hole is too narrow for, say, a bolt to be driven through without ris
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    Sea, Salts & Sail
    The Sea Salts & Sail festival in Mousehole attracts a certain type of sailor. The type who doesn’t mind getting up at 7am to leave harbour at high water, then be unable to return until the next high water 12 hours later (give or take an hour or two).
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    Next Month
    The Victorian yacht by a little-known designer, restored by a keen yachtsman and raced at this year’s Richard Mille Cup Summer’s last gasps, with events played out in Cannes, the Broads, the Hamble, Barcelona and Brest The classic off shore racing po
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    Llanthony Moves
    Llanthony, at 77ft 5in (23m), is one of the bigger members of the special fleet known as the Dunkirk little ships that took part in Operation Dynamo (the Dunkirk evacuation) in 1940. She was designed and built in 1934, in steel plate, by Camper and N
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    Diving Deep
    Martyn Mackrill will be well known to the readers of this magazine as an accomplished marine artist who is the Honorary Painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Royal Thames Yacht Club. Just before he and his wife Bryony, who is a teacher, got mar
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    Maldon Town Regatta 2024
    This year’s annual event was organised by Jim Dines of the very busy Downs Road Boat Yard following the sad loss last year of Gerry Courtney who had helped to re-establish the Maldon Town Regatta in its current form since 2002, writes Peter Smith. Wa
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    Smacks, Bawleys, Barges And Brigs On The East Coast
    Away from Maldon Regatta (page 18), photographer Sandy Miller was covering three events on the Essex coast. First off, on 7 September, was a new event, the Oyster Challenge on Mersea Island (pictured bottom left), created by Eloisa Rule, the owner of
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    Threading The Icebergs
    When will it stop? The wind, the wind! It’s August, mid summer in the Highlands, a time of gentle breezes, moist warm days and, OK, midges, absent largely this year as only a midge capable of flying upwind in a Force 7 westerly would stand a chance h
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    Letters
    We are delighted to introduce co-sponsor of our letters page, in the form of Mylne Yacht Design. MD David Gray will offer a copy of Alfred Mylne, Yacht Designer, to a reader every month. This is an encyclopaedic study of the great man, laid out over
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    Stepping Stones
    It is now 20 years since Stones Boatyard became established on a new site at Yalton on the east side of the Salcombe Estuary. But the Stone family had had a boatyard in nearby East Portlemouth as long ago as 1938, initially run by James Stone who was
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    Little And Large
    Two of the yachts most pivotal to the classic boat movement are on sale at the same time, through Sandeman Yacht Company. The first, the Fife-designed schooner Altair, is among the world’s most famous and beautiful classic yachts; some would say Alta
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    RIP Django
    As a magazine that has always had a special affection for boatyard dogs, it is with sadness that we report the recent death of Django the cocker spaniel, whose stomping ground was the Underfall Yard in Bristol.■
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    Pendennis Buys Into Cockwells
    Pendennis Shipyard has taken a majority interest in Cornish boatbuilder Cockwells Modern & Classic Boatbuilding. Dave Cockwell, founder of Cockwells and now sales and technical director, has spent 28 years growing the company from its humble beginnin
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    What The Butler Sawed
    Despite being in the middle of the sailing season, there was plenty going on at the Butler & Co yard in Penpol when I visited in August, writes Nic Compton. For a start, there was Ashley Butler’s personal project: the restoration of the 66ft (20.11m)
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    Atlantic Star
    Built in 2010, Atlantic is a replica of the 1903 yacht of the same name. The original Atlantic was designed by William Gardner and built by Townsend & Downey shipyard, New York for New York Yacht Club member Wilson Marshall. Although she was fitted o
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    The Perfect Gift This Christmas
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    Moulding Planes
    For convenience, moulding planes may be divided into two groups. In the first group are planes dedicated to shaping specific mouldings, each one profiled exactly opposite to the concavities, convexities, fillets and grooves of a complex surface. The
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    Mousing Around
    To mouse or not to mouse, that is the question. Put the issue to a bunch of dockside mariners round a pub table and as like as not Captain Blimp will insist that all hooks are to be moused on pain of the ship coming to a sticky end. He has a point of
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    Steamed Up
    The hottest day of the year so far, peaking at 32 degrees, dispelled any fears organisers might have had about mud. All that remained of the recent rains was a large, shallow puddle in a depression in the car park, bringing back memories of Trads pas
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    SYH Expands With OneSails And Evolution Rigging
    Suffolk Yacht Harbour (SYH) has acquired OneSails GBR (East) & Evolution Rigging, expanding its portfolio of businesses at Levington Marina on Suffolk’s River Orwell. Formerly owned by experienced sailor John Parker, OneSails GBR (East) and Evolution
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    Titanic Duel In Menorca
    After severe storms in the area, including the bad weather that sank Bayesian, the 45-strong classic fleet at the 20th Copa del Rey (King’s Cup) got underway in Mahon under sunny skies, but with variable and week breezes, writes Chris Potter. The Big

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