Classic Boat

400 ISSUES… AND GOING STRONG

he world’s most beautiful boats. It might be our strapline, but it’s also one of the hardest caused outrage with her spoon bow in 1893. , our cover boat, has a retroussé counter stern, considered too modern by many at her launch 55 years ago. Today, newly restored, she’s indisputably gorgeous. It makes you wonder what we might be lauding at issue 800. Wally Yachts? Foiling Moths? Triple-outboard smuggler RIBs? It’s hard to imagine, but never say never.

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