30 YEARS AGO
MARCH 1992, CB43
The cover of our March 1992 issue features compass adjuster and restorer Ron Robinson taking bearings with a 1920s pelorus, as skipper Steve Hammond follows his instructions on the helm of the 1931 Fife schooner Altair. Page 50 of this issue sees Robin Gates write on ‘reviving the rose’, the art of bringing period nautical instruments back to life. This issue of the magazine also reports on the London Boat Show, where visitors could have viewed the Cornish Crabbers Yawl, the Victoria Yachts 26, a clinker rowing boat by McNulty Boats in South Shields and a 29-footer by a company called McMillan Yachts. Whatever happened to them? Elsewhere John Leather looks at the groundbreaking work of
1930s small-craft designer Alfred Braithwaite, while Jim Horgan tells of his project to build a traditional Galway Hooker, the design we featured in our February 2022 issue. Another advert, this one a classified placed by a reader, oers an elderly yacht, possibly a Tumlare, as a project. Did anyone take her on?