There’s no doubt that today’s world of classic boating can be divided into at least two sections – arguably a lot more than two – but surely no-one can deny there is everything else and then there are the working boats. For some, only the […]
Aboard today, LATIFA looks every inch the William Fife dream-yacht. When the current owner found her 37 years ago…
Anyone who has undergone a yacht restoration will tell you that the key to success is in attention to detail. And yet it’s quite strange how often the last things to be considered in a project are some of the largest, most prominent and most important parts of any sailing vessel – the sails themselves. Peter Sanders can help.
After recently changing hands through brokers Sandeman Yacht Company, the big Fife III Schooner, ELISE, has commenced her rebuild at Joe Irving’s yard on the Humber.
No other yacht has quite the kudos of the schooner America from 1851…
