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Welcome to a website all about classic yachts!

 

Here you will find information not only about different classic yachts but also the designers and different classes.

When looking at the history of classic yachts you will soon find that there is a large amount of local racing types developed over the years, some soon grew in to large international racing classes, like the “meter rule” yachts or the Dragons witch used to be an Olympic class racing yacht.

We also have a large forum with anything from tips and tricks on how to renovate and maintain a classic yacht, parts and info source finding, classic yacht racing and of course a section of buy and sell classic yachts.

All classic yacht info and forums are free to access but you will have to register (free of course) to access some parts or post in the forums. Register users also get a free blog (dairy) where they can write about there yacht and post pictures of the yachts or maybe even of its restoration!

We also have a gallery with pictures of classic sailing yachts, where you can upload pictures or just view others pictures and vote on them!

Owning or restoring a classic sailing boat can be a time consuming thing and having the support from others doing the same thing online can be a very good thing, not only to get help and advice but to keep you motivated in the difficult times that anyone with a wooden yacht get to experience some times!

           

Dragon
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In 1927 the Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club organized a design competition to find a new type of sailing boat. It was to be aimed for younger sailors and the cost of construction should be cheaper then other popular racing classes of the time, such as square meter yachts and Int meter rule yachts..

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How To
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How to

There are as many ways of maintaing a and restoring a classic yacht, or any wooden boat, as there are boat owners! No matter what it is you are looking to to to your yacht you will find limitless of advice and ways to do it. But is there a correct way of doing certain things? Not really! Look at somehting like varnishing, the desire is often the same, get a nice looking finish. But how to get there is a diffrent story! Same thing can be said about almost anything you want to do on a classci yacht. Do myou have to buy expensive yacht paint

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Kentra
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Year: 1923
Designer: George Lawley & Son
Builder:  William Fife & Sons
LOA: 84’
Beam: 17’2”
Draft: 10’3”

History.

The Scottish industrialist Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, whose great grand father invented the cotton spinning spool, ordered the yacht from the at the time very popular yacht designer George Lawley and had her built by the even more famous boat yard of  William Fife & Sons. She was completed in the extreamly fast time of only 6 months and was launched in 1923.

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