Affordable Classics 10 – the Finesse
Classics under £10,000 - Finesse 21 and 24
That a popular line of wooden, clinker-built cruising yachts came to be built at the dawn of...
Grayling: a fish out of water
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere in it a well is hidden." Grayling, restored in '08 in Valencia, is an oasis of...
White Rose of Mevagissey: built by eye
With our 2017 Awards nigh, here's a look back at the 2014 winner in 'traditional build under 40ft' category
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Affordable Classics 4 – Contessa 26
Boats under £10K - this time, we look at the Contessa 26
Like the wooden, Kim Holman-designed Stella class of 1958 that we featured for...
The life and designs of Kim Holman
An in-depth look at the life and work of the post-war British yacht designer CR 'Kim' Holman, who drew the Twister, Stella and more
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Design Competition 2011
Time is running out to design a coastal cruiser between 26 and 40ft in length, for extended voyaging well into retirement. From CB279.
For this...
Great yacht designs 1 – Herreshoff 12.5
Before his tragic recent death, Theo Rye wrote 13 brilliant design appraisals for us. Here is his first, from September 2015 - the Herreshoff...
The story of a Linton Hope pocket cruising schooner: meet Morwenna
Morwenna has just won the Belle Classe for restoration at Monaco and our next issue (Dec) kicks off a series on how it was...
New Scottish Maritime Museum exhibition
Ship Models: A History of Shipping in Miniature - 10th February - 26th May
An exquisite exhibition exploring the history of ship models over the...
Great yacht designs 10 – the Stella
She is known as a British answer to the Folkboat, but there’s more to the Stella than that
Christopher “Kim” Holman had a happy knack...
