Boatyard Dreams
Old boats may allow you to travel around the globe, but there’s nothing like an old boatyard to take you places that you’ve never been…
Beautiful yachts
Rare Summers & Payne yawl in need of help
Relaunched in 2010, the rare 95ft Summers & Payne gaff yawl, Artemis, has swiftly fallen upon hard times once again. The project’s surveyor, Jendrik Odenwald, explains what has happened…
Working Class at the Conde de Barcelona
They say that the happiest days of boat ownership are the day you buy a boat, and the day you sell her. Thus far, I can only really vouch for the former. Ragnar is a 44ft gaff-rigged schooner, built in 2002 by a little-known…
Mental Health and the Art of Classic Boating
Through the work that I do as the skipper for the mental health charity Sea Sanctuary I have had the opportunity to sail with clients on a number of different classic wooden boats. I have seen first hand the positive effect…
William Fife 1912 Schooner Elise
It was husband and wife, father and mother, now grandfather and grandmother, Ted and Bridget that started it all off for the Merediths when the couple bought the distinctive and elegant schooner back in 1992.
William Fife III Schooner Elise: A Brief History
Elise was built on the Clyde in 1912 by William Fife III as an auxiliary gaff schooner with a Gardner two-cylinder paraffin engine. She was constructed for a WA Young of Paisley of mahogany and pitch pine on oak frames, copper fastened and the hull […]
