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CLASSIC BOAT NOVEMBER 2017 3Welcome
This summer the Classic Boat team has been sailing in Cornwall, Palma, the Broads, Long
Island, Copenhagen, Barcelona and a few other places in between. The boats have ranged from a
Beetle Cat to a J-Class to a Falmouth Working Boat. To travel far and wide, and fi nd such passion
for our subject in each place, is cheering and only bodes well for the future of classic boating. But
things are never straightforward. On page 64, we interview Mike Atfi eld, who has retired as the last
traditional wooden boat builder in Salcombe, Devon. Other skilled Salcombe builders will do you proud if
you want a wooden boat, but covering the cost of waterside premises in a popular holiday town, by building new
boats in timber, is not easy. The Spirit of Tradition scene, as we show in this issue, is thriving. But let’s never forget
that builders of new wooden boats, be they modern or traditional, need all the support we can give them.ROB PEAKE, EDITOR
THE FUTURE AND THE PAST
12. LOGBOOK
18. TELL TALES
38. SALEROOM
41. OBJECTS OF DESIRE
43. ADRIAN MORGAN44. BOSUN’S BAG
78. TOM CUNLIFFE
81. GETTING AFLOAT
94. LETTERS
98. STERNPOST86. YARD NEWS
90. YARD VISIT
92. BOATBUILDER’S
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93. TRADITIONAL TOOLCOVER STORY
4. CRUISING SCHOONER
No6 Texel has come a long way since
her days as a Dutch pilot schooner12. MONACO CLASSIC WEEK^
Vintage yachts and motorboats
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14. J-CLASS WORLDS
e Js return to their spiritual home
16. 8-METRE WORLDS
Heavy weather action in Norway
22. SOUTHAMPTON SHOW
Small boats and more at the boat show
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28. ADMIRAL’S CUP 1963
Clarion of Wight and Outlaw today
COVER STORY
47. SPIRIT OF TRADITION
New Spirit 52D and a snapshot of the
full range of today’s modern classics
COVER STORY
60. HOW TO READ LINES PLANS
Tom Cunli e on this useful skill
64. MIKE ATFIELD
We meet the Salcombe boatbuilder
COVER STORY
66. NAUTICAL BOOKS
Our pick of 2017’s most salty reads
COVER STORY
70. DAVID BOYD’S 12-METRES
Part 2 of our history of the designer
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Saving a historic dinghy TOM
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