Next month SAILING TODAY WITH YACHTS & YACHTING
MIKADO The gorgeous, slim Fife rater Mikado from 1904 is not exactly what you might choose as a family
with DECEMBER 2022 £4.95
cruising yacht – but
CARIBBEAN DREAMS
that’s just what she has proved to be in her years
● Charter hotspots ● Season preview ● Route du Rhum
of family ownership
BOAT TEST
EXCESS 14 Speed, comfort and style SCOTTISH SOJOURN A West Coast wonderland TOM CUNLIFFE Secret to stress free mooring revealed
ASCENSION ISLAND
RAMSGATE MARINA
Not to be missed
ALEX THOMSON
Exciting new project revealed
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Sailing the heights
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HEAVY WEATHER SAILING Rod Heikell’s masterclass
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IN THE DECEMBER ISSUE Caribbean dreams: charter hotspots, season preview and the Route de Rhum Scottish sojourn: sailing the wonderland of the west coast Heavy weather sailing: a masterclass with Rod Heikell
TINY SHIP
REDWINGS
The 30ft motor cruiser Ryegate built
Uffa Fox’s iconic development class at
in the 1930s was recently rescued and
Bembridge Sailing Club, which celebrated its
put through a complete restoration
first 125 years in 2022
Boat test: speed, comfort and style in the Excess 14 Ramsgate Marina – all you need to know Alex Thomson: new project
PLUS…
JANUARY 2022
Sailing and sketching the Irish coast, a guide to spars and
On sale Friday 09
rigging, boatbuilding in the Pacific Northwest, all the latest
December 2022
news and more
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30 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 1992, CB54
Three decades ago, as we approached Christmas, then editor Robin Gates, who today writes our monthly Boatbuilder’s Notes column, reflected on the year in his editorial. “The take-home message from 1992,” he wrote, “is that people of all ages love traditional boats. In July, 1.5 million people tucked into a feast of old rigs at Brest.” This was in fact the first maritime Brest festival, now a quadrennial event that still attracts crowds of a similar size. I could say the same today – more so. Young people really are getting into boat restoration. I recently listed around 10 people under the age of 30 – and half of those were under 20 – undertaking serious boat restorations or new-builds. These are just the ones I know of. It’s a great sign for the future of maritime heritage preservation, which sounds like an awfully dusty term when you consider that these are generally yachts being restored by young people to have fun and adventures on. Elsewhere in the mag, it’s a pretty diverse feast: Eric Tabarly himself on Pen Duick; river boats of Bangladesh; a big antique motoryacht called Lillian of Stockholm; a treatise on GL Watson and another on anchoring; but look what we found on page 68! It’s the outrageously curvaceous INSAM motor boat that we featured, 30 years later, in our September issue this year! 80
CLASSIC BOAT DECEMBER 2022
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