Next month SAILING TODAY WITH YACHTS & YACHTING
THE SUNSET OF WOOD This fabulous 49-footer
AMERICA’S CUP VENUE: WHAT BEN THINKS
from 1973 is one of the last three wooden yachts built
with
by McGruer, and probably
JUNE 2022 £4.95
GET READY FOR THE SEASON
among the last wooden yachts built in the age of
BOAT TEST
Sleek and easy short-hander CRUISING Suffolk and Isles of Scilly
Tech upgrades Sailing skills Holidays afloat
timber. After a big refit,
FAMILY WINNERS “How we won Cowes Week”
she’s as good as ever. IAN WALKER Keeping kids and teenagers sailing ROUND THE WORLD Doing it as a rally
BEACH CLUB TIPS How to have a great week
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But where will it end?
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IN THE JUNE ISSUE Boat test: sleek and easy short-hander Getting ready for the season: tech upgrades, sailing skills and hols afloat
FOLKBOATS FOREVER
JUST ADD WATER
What can one say that’s not already
These BayCruiser 23 water-ballasted trailer
said about the most popular cabin
sailers have been selling like hotcakes for
yacht ever, at 80? We look at its wins
years. Finally, we get out with builder
in the Round The Island Race.
Swallow Yachts for a proper test.
PLUS…
JULY 2022
The yachtsmen volunteers of World War Two; a visit to a new
On sale Friday 10 June,
English boatyard specialising in metre yachts; meet Debbie
2022
Purser; and more
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30 YEARS AGO JUNE 1992, CB46
What a gorgeous cover shot we had in June 1992! And just as in this issue you’re holding today, the cover boat is a Fife. This month of course, it’s the ‘last’ Fife. Back in 92, the cover boat was Kelpie, a 30ft (9.1m) gaff cutter from 1884, so one of the William Fife III’s earlier creations. She was living in Sydney then, and the article was sent to us by none other than Larry and Lin Pardey – sailing royalty almost! The second yacht in the mag is Gulvain, a proper contrast. Built in 1949, the largest racing yacht built in Britain since the war (55ft), she represented the best and most modern thinking from the two British giants of ocean racing design at the time – Laurent Giles and John Illingworth. She is also, we thought, the world’s first aluminium yacht, built by the Sussex Shipbuidling Company. She’s thought to be still afloat. Mark Fishwick concludes his beginner’s guide to ‘Topsails for the Timid’. It’s an apt title, as topsails can be terrifying. John Beale looked at ‘the navigator’s dilemma’. RDF, Decca, Loran or GPS? Well, we all know who won that race! This is also the issue that features a ‘notice to mariners’ about our move to Link House in Cornwall, a far cry from lovely Falmouth. 80
CLASSIC BOAT JUNE 2022
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