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THE SUNSET OF WOOD
This fabulous 49-footer from 1973 is one of the last three wooden yachts built by McGruer, and probably among the last wooden yachts built in the age of timber. After a big refi t, she’s as good as ever.
FOLKBOATS FOREVER JUST ADD WATER
What can one say that’s not already said about the most popular cabin yacht ever, at 80? We look at its wins in the Round The Island Race. These BayCruiser 23 water-ballasted trailer sailers have been selling like hotcakes for years. Finally, we get out with builder Swallow Yachts for a proper test.
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The yachtsmen volunteers of World War Two; a visit to a new English boatyard specialising in metre yachts; meet Debbie Purser; and more
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BOAT TEST Sleek and easy short-hander
CRUISING Su olk and Isles of Scilly
FAMILY WINNERS
“How we won Cowes Week”
IAN WALKER
Keeping kids and teenagers sailing
SAILGP THRILLS But where will it end?
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ROUND THE WORLD Doing it as a rally BEACH CLUB TIPS How to have a great week
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30 YEARS AGO
JUNE 1992, CB46
What a gorgeous cover shot we had in June 1992! And just as in this issue you’re holding today, the cover boat is a Fife. This month of course, issue you’re holding today, the cover boat is a Fife. This month of course, it’s the ‘last’ Fife. Back in 92, the cover boat was Kelpie, a 30ft (9.1m) ga cutter from 1884, so one of the William Fife III’s earlier creations. She was living in Sydney then, and the article was sent to us by none other than Larry and Lin Pardey – sailing royalty almost! The second yacht in the mag is Gulvain, a proper contrast. Built in 1949, the largest racing yacht built in Britain since the war (55ft), she represented the best and most modern thinking from the two British giants of ocean racing design at the time – Laurent Giles and John Illingworth. She is also, we thought, the world’s fi rst aluminium yacht, built by the Sussex Shipbuidling Company. She’s thought to be still afl oat. Mark Fishwick concludes his beginner’s guide to ‘Topsails for the Timid’. It’s an apt title, as topsails can be terrifying. John Beale looked at ‘the navigator’s dilemma’. RDF, Decca, Loran or GPS? Well, we all know who won that race! This is also the issue that features a ‘notice to mariners’ about our move to Link House in Cornwall, a far cry from lovely Falmouth.
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