Classic Boat – September 2019

CONTENTS

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ISSUE No 375

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D A Y

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D R I F T E R

The story of Gleaner, the Lowestoft drifter brought back to England in neatly stacked, labelled parts in a

shipping container, then rebuilt, is unlike anything else we've seen. Her return from dereliction is testament to

what can be done on a very strict budget if you have the will, the skills, and a good set of friends. Today, she looks much as she

might have in her heyday and, pictured on our cover this month, sailing off the Cornish coast with an early morning mist in the

sky, she's as regal as any varnished, bronze-bedecked, million-pound restoration. Also in this issue is chapter two of the great solo

Caribbean adventure undertaken by our 2018 Classic Boater of the Year – young Max Campbell. He follows Ashley Butler and

Leo Goolden in the tradition of young English boatbuilders who restore a yacht then sail the Atlantic to Caribbean shores. Max

found not just golden sands, but an end to depression and anxiety. If Gleaner shows how people can save boats, the story of this

young adventurer and his 22ft yacht Flying Cloud gives us the fl ipside: boats can sometimes save people, too.

STEFFAN MEYRIC HUGHES, EDITOR

ARRIVING BY CONTAINER

18. TELL TALES

32. SALEROOM

34. OBJECTS OF DESIRE

36. ADRIAN MORGAN

38. BOSUN’S BAG

79. NEW CLASSICS

81. GETTING AFLOAT

94. LETTERS

96. LOOKING AHEAD

98. STERNPOST

86. YARD NEWS

90. YARD VISIT

92. BOATBUILDER’S

NOTES

93. TRADITIONAL TOOL

COVER STORY

4 .GLEANER

Disassembled into bits, put in a

container, taken home and rebuilt

12. SUMMER SAILING

Reports from Cowes, Suff olk and the

Austrian lakes

24. TASSIE TOO

Th e little Tassie keelboat, back from

her racing heyday

COVER STORY

40 .DEPRESSION ERA BEAUTY

Th e 1930s motor yacht Ariel II,

restored to a tee, is a jaw-dropper

48. THREE GREAT DESIGNERS

Final part of our history of the dynasties

of Herreshoff , Fife and Nicholson

56. BLUEWATER DESIGNER

Meet design guru Paul Johnson, who

built his fi rst boat from an old church

COVER STORY

58. TINY TREKKA

Design analysis of the little marvel of

the 1950s built to cross oceans

60. GONDOLAS AND TAXIS

Th e Venetian yard, whose clients

include the Pope

COVER STORY

66 .ALONE IN THE ATLANTIC

Max Campbell returns to the sea

74. TOM CUNLIFFE

Of all boat problems, it's engine trouble

that saps the will to live, says Tom

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