CLASSIC CHARTERS
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Using the guide Prices quoted are approximate and per person per day, in peak season. Many day charters (and nearly all overnight ones) include food
£150+ Caribbean charters antigua, Tel: +1 (268)463 7101, classicharters.com 19 fairly swish yachts for day and overnight charter including CB cover star Kate (pictured), a 12-M Mylne yacht built to a vintage design in 2006 by Phillip Walwyn Sceptre Solent and Scotland, Tel: +44 (0)121 308 0870 599 542 0045, www.12metre.com www.sceptrepreservation.co.uk, Britain’s classic 12-M america’s Cup yacht, £160
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Bloodhound Oban, Western Isles, Scotland, Tel: +44 (0)131 555 8800, www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk The 63ft (19.2m) Camper & Nicholson ketch built in 1963 that once belonged to the Queen and Prince Phillip and these days is a companion exhibit to the royal yacht in Leith, defects to Oban in July and august, offering day charter in the Western Isles for up to eight guests, £240
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Europa antarctica, +31 10281 0990, www.barkeuropa.com Riveted-steel 1911 barque, 184ft (56m) from bowsprit to taffrail with 23 sails, plies 22-day antarctic cruise from ushuaia, argentina, £220
Arcturus New Zealand, Tel: +64 27 477 9023 www.classicboatcharter.com 1930 John alden schooner, day and overnight, cruising the NZ coast, £290
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Classic Charters Worldwide, Tel: +44 (0)7919 430863, www.classic-charters.com Classic power and sail including the 1936 Camper & Nicholson motor yacht Bounty, 78ft (24m) of interwar style. from £170
Classic Yacht Events Mediterranean, Tel: +33 (0)6 78 28 17 46 www.classicyachtevents.com This is the full monty: a collection of top-pedigree classic yachts from the Med, including The Blue Peter, for match racing and normal charter. from £250
Swan 55s River hamble, Tel: +44 (0)7760 203128, www.valhallayachting.com Two identical, 70s-vintage S&S Swan 55s for match racing and general charter. £200
Galapagos Expeditions Tel: +1 415 738 8369 www.galapagosexpeditions.com Naturalists’ paradise on the 1928, 147ft (44.8m) Camper & Nicholson motor yacht, £450
Edmiston Worldwide, Tel: +44 20 7495 5151, www.edmistoncompany.com Many – including the only wooden J-Class, Shamrock v. from £650
Seascope Rhode Island, uSa, Tel: +1 401 847 5007 www.seascopenewport.com fleet of classics, including three wooden 12-M yachts, £800 for two hours, 12-14 guests
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£100-150 Maybird Ireland, Tel: +44 (0)7540 969512 www.maybird.co.uk Restored 1930s fred Shepherd gaff ketch of 43ft (13m), Maybird offers all sorts of charter
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Maine Windjammer Cruises Penobscot Bay, Tel: +1 207 236 2938 www.mainewindjammercruises.com Cruising Maine in historic schooners
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Trinity Sailing Leader, Provident and Golden vanity Tel: +44 (0)1803 883355 www.trinitysailing.org Brixham trawlers and other historic workboats. Channel, Belfast, West Coast Scotland
Classic Sailing Tel: +44 (0)1872 580222 www.classic-sailing.co.uk Scillonian Pilot Cutters Eve of St Mawes and agnes and many others
Eda Frandsen hebrides, Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)1326 567 265, www.eda-frandsen.co.uk 1930s gaff cutter, 56ft (17m), under new management. Cornwall and Outer hebrides, with plenty of wildlife excursions and whisky tasting, and passage sailing between the two destinations
Zillaine algarve, Tel:+44 (0)7747 066012 www.classicyachtcharter.eu 44ft (13.4m) C&N yawl bareboat or crewed, with or without a beachside apartment
Morwenna Solent, Tel: +44 (0)845 034 5388, www.traditional-sailing.com Pilot cutter with RYa training, Tom Cunliffe days, Round the Island and fastnet
Annabel J Tel: +44 (0)7766 138288 www.annabel-j.co.uk RYa courses and around-Britain cruise for 2013, as well as general charter
Clyde Classic Sailing Tel: +447955 881656 www.clydeclassicsailing.com Scillonian Pilot Cutter sailing on the West Coast of Scotland
CLASSIC BOAT FEBRUARY 2013
Polly Agatha Portsmouth, Tel: +44 (0)7795 480245 www.polly-agatha.co.uk Pilot cutter for holidays, races, voyages, corporate, private etc Merlin of Falmouth Southampton, Tel: +44 (0)7976 182534, www.classic-charters.co.uk Pilot cutter for holidays, races, corporate Mascotte Western Isles, Scotland, Tel: +44 (0)7733 895545, www.sail-mascotte.co.uk Whale watching and general charter on the largest (60ft/18m) surviving pilot cutter Edith Gray Western Isles, Scotland, Tel: +44 (0)7903 682645, www.wildsailing.co.uk The newest, fastest and smallest of the pilot cutter fleet at under 40ft (12.2m). Wild anchorages, wildlife, walking and climbing Josefine W Country, Tel: +44 (0)7971 376172 www.sailjosefine.com, danish gaff trawler built in 1931 for general charter
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