ROLL OF HONOUR Pint-size
WHITBREAD’S WHIPPER SNAPPER
Moonraker is one of very few sailing yachts that took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, and after the war she was owned by the brewer Whitbread, sponsor of Francis Chichester and the Whitbread Race. Now, after restoration, she’s back in the fleet.
WORDS COLIN DAVIS
PHOTOS GRAHAM SNOOK
ITALY’S JESTER
The tiny yacht Rondetto and her Italian skipper Erik Pascoli are, to Italian sailors, nothing less than Blondie Hasler and Jester. Sunk by a storm in 2018, she is now restored and at the Rahmi M Koç Museum in Istanbul
WORDS AND PHOTOS BRUNO CIANCI
FIXING THE FOX
After rebuilding some of the most famous sailing yachts of all time, how hard could this 1960 sportfisher project possibly be?
WORDS JOE LOUGHBOROUGH AND STEFFAN MEYRIC HUGHES PHOTOS WIL LOUGHBOROUGH
PETER’S FRIEND
Following our story last month on the formidable sailor Dulce Hazel Kennard, better known as Peter Pears, we look at the yacht she loved and left behind, Juanita WORDS AND PHOTOS NIGEL SHARP
A marvel of engineering? Or a horror lurking below the steps? Two men with more than 120 years of experience run us through the basic checks needed on a four-stroke marine diesel
WORDS & PHOTOS STEFFAN MEYRIC HUGHES
DIESEL BASICS
