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For adventurous
cruising sailors
For competitive
sailorsCONTENTS
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CLASSIC BOAT SEPTEMBER 2016 3
Regatta season is upon us and that includes the most high-profi le regatta of them all (in Rio) which for classic
boat enthusiasts features the Star, designed in 1910 and still an Olympic class after 84 years, and the Finn, the
cat-rigged singlehander that was designed in 1949 and fi rst saw Olympic action in 1952. Even the 49er is a
development of the 18ft Skiff, a class that started more than 100 years ago in Australia. Today’s Olympic racing
may be all about GRP and carbon – the 1960 Rome games was the last to feature all-wooden boats – but its roots
are classic. So, too, are the roots of another kind of race. As I write, the 100ft maxi Comanche is charging across
the Atlantic in an attempt to break the record to the Lizard. Comanche’s crew should fi nish about seven days
quicker than their forerunners in 1866, in the fi rst Transatlantic Race, and about whom you can read on page 62.
ROB PEAKE, EDITOR
RACING HERITAGE
REGULARS
15. TELL TALES
24. US NEWS
34. OBJECTS OF DESIRE
36. SALEROOM
39. ADRIAN MORGAN
77. CLASS NOTES
78. NEW CLASSICS
79. GETTING AFLOAT
94. LETTERS
98. STERNPOST
CRAFTSMANSHIP
85. YARD NEWS
90. YARD VISIT
92. BOATBUILDER’S NOTES
93. TRADITIONAL TOOL
COVER: JAMES ROBINSON TAYLOR
COVER STORY
4. SCHOONER FROM A
GOLDEN AGE
Xarifa, built in 1927, now restored
12. MYSTIC BOAT SHOW
Sunshine and varnish in Connecticut
COVER STORY
26. J-CLASS TENDER
Bystander, tender to 7 Cup campaigns
COVER STORY
40. OCEAN-GOING GAFFER
One family’s remarkable story
COVER STORY
48. SWALLOWS & AMAZONS
We meet the new fi lm’s producer
50. EAST COAST RACING
We take part in the Suff olk Yacht
Harbour classic regatta
COVER STORY
56. OLDEST OD CLASS
We join the Water Wags in Ireland
COVER STORY
62. NEW YORK TO COWES
First ever transatlantic race, in 1866
68. LATEEN RESURGENCE
Th e traditional rig is going strong
COVER STORY
72. SCHOONER AMERICA
Was the famous design really as radical
as some thought?
COVER STORY
74. TOM CUNLIFFE
Why I love Jolie Brise TOM
CUNLIFFE
AN OLD
FRIEND
p 74
WE
RACE IN
Suff olk
Yacht Harbour
Regatta
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