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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!

           

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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

or can you make it yourself? Of course you can! We not only have a great recipie for mixing your own yacht paint, we will also show you exactly how to do it! Want that sleek looking hull that has not an un even line on it? Tired of doing long bording sanding? So are we! It can be done simpler and still not risking the future life span of your wooden hull! We will show you how!
The most asked for question when it comes to restoring and maintaining a classic wooden yacht is that of rot. Not only is dry or wet rot a hassel to deal wiht, it will eventually finish of your lovely yacht, and each day that you delay dealig with rot in a oat, each day you build up the amount of work needed to fix the problem! There are many ways to solve this rot problem on wooden yachts, some we have tested and some we havent, but we will write about them here and also hopt to get some feedback from the readers about thir experiances about rot in the wooden boats.

This section of the website is brand new and we are working like crazy to get things up and running. We plan to launch atleast one article per week on how to maintain your wooden obat and how to resotre a wooden yacht, so this is really only a short intro to what is to come! Welcome back soon!

 
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