THE YEAR AHEAD FOR CLASSIC BOATS

sailing was restricted over 2020, the silver lining is that boatyards, by and large, could remain open. It seems more than a few were able to steal a march on time by working on projects through a quiet summer, where those project boats might otherwise have been out on the water. The diversity of these projects is, simply, without parallel in the history of the modernday classic boat movement. A decade or two ago, we would have been looking at prestigious yachts like Fifes, Nicholsons and so on, some noble workboats generally scraping by on a caulking iron and a prayer, and a load of smaller yachts in restoration, usually by the owner, some excellent, some passable,