SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED
We’ve gone all carpe diem on Bond at Classic Boat lately. No Time to Die – the film the world was waiting for throughout the pandemic – was finally released, and there was Daniel Craig sailing a Spirit 46 in the Caribbean. It was his last outing as 007, and a neat bookend to his first appearance, Casino Royale (2006) in which he sailed a Spirit 54.
We were up at Spirit not long ago, having a sail on their new 30 – their first open dayboat. More in the next issue. Meanwhile, who can forget the boat chase in Sean Connery’s second Bond movie – From Russia with Love (1963)? We were out on a restored Fairey Huntsman 28 this summer, the boat from that film. The Bond boat chases got better and better after that, in Live and Let Die (1973), Moonraker (1979), The World is not Enough (1999) and Quantum of Solace (2008), but there was never any boat with the same class as the iconic Huntsman. And if you don’t like Bond or motorboats, our cover this month, German Frers’ new yacht, is a true one-off, built to his father’s 1940s design and never built until this year. It’s stunning boat, and it’s great to see the rare ketch rig.