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CONTENTS
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Your votes have been coming in thick and fast over the past four months in the Classic Boat Awards.
This issue we can reveal who has the most! We hope the winners will be delighted, but each of the nominations
received many thousands of votes too – votes that came in from around the world. There’s no doubt the level of
interest in the work of classic boatbuilders and restorers in 2016 is as high as it’s ever been. One of the Awards
winners is our cover boat, Invader, launched by Wooden Boatworks in 2015. When the owner of Invader found
no 8-Ms available to restore, he decided to build one that had been lost. The runner-up in that category is a new
build of Johan Anker’s last 12-M design, no.434, dating from 1939 and never built until now. Launches
like these are on the increase, fascinating additions to an already vibrant classic scene.
ROB PEAKE, EDITOR
A VIBRANT SCENE
REGULARS
14. TELL TALES
22. US NEWS
33. SALEROOM
34. OBJECTS OF DESIRE
37. ADRIAN MORGAN
64. FROM THE ARCHIVES
73. CLASS NOTES
75. NEW CLASSICS
77. GETTING AFLOAT
94. LETTERS
98. STERNPOST
CRAFTSMANSHIP
83. YARD NEWS
88. YARD VISIT
92. BOATBUILDER’S NOTES
93. TRADITIONAL TOOL
COVER BY: PETER BRAUNÉ
COVER STORY
4. LOST FIFE
Wooden Boatworks’ faithful recreation
of Invader, a replica of a Canadian
match-racing 8-M
COVER STORY
24. CLASSIC BOAT AWARDS
Th e results are in for our 2016 awards,
from Restoration of the Year to
Yachtsman of the Year
COVER STORY
38. COWES INFERNO
An obituary of Witch, the 1902 Sibbick
destroyed in the Cowes fi re
46. STARTING THE SEASON
Adrian Morgan at the scrubbing posts
48. VOYAGE TO THE DARK AGES
Max Adams follows ancient sea paths
on pilot cutter Eda Frandsen
54. GEIR ROVIK: INTERVIEW
Norway’s traditional boatbuilder
56. LAST SAILORMAN
East Coast barge skipper Bob Roberts
COVER STORY
64. HARRISON BUTLER Z
A design analysis of the much-loved
sturdy pocket cruiser
66. TOM CUNLIFFE
Cruising with no engine and a bust rib
68. FAIREY HUNTSMAN
A fi ne refi t by a prominent sailor of the
classic British motor yacht
Awards
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
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INNER
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TOM
CUNLIFFE
A BROKEN
RIB
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