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Classic Boats

Bristol Channel Cutter 28

This 28-foot design won California’s Newport to Ensenada race in 1978 and also came in first in class in 1979.

Mayflower II Restoration

The most important ship restoration project in America at this moment is attracting big crowds.

Rhodes 27

Back in the day, as yachtsmen in northern waters sat out the long winters, they thought about boats to race and cruise.

Striker 44

The 1950s and ’60s were a time of great activity and innovation in the boating world, with new boats and a new audience waiting to buy them.

Albemarle 24

Scott Harrell loved tractors. The Edenton, North Carolina, native “delighted in mowing and moving dirt,” as one observer put it.

Star

It was called the Bug. George “Pop” Corry’s little one-design sailboat, which had come off New York designer William Gardner’s drawing board in 1906, was fun to race, gave skippers an even chance to win and was inexpensive at $140.

VIDEO: Bugeye Restoration Goes To The Bottom

Built in 1889, the traditional Chesapeake Bay sailing bugeye Edna E. Lockwood is getting a fresh lease on life at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, where shipwrights are installing a new handcrafted log bottom hewn from 12 loblolly pine logs. This video has the latest on the restoration

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