30 YEARS AGO

July 1992, CB47

The cover boat on this issue was the three-masted ga schooner Adix, designed by Arthur Holgate and launched (as Jessica) in 1983. In our July issue, Robin Gates reports on recent work that saw the schooner re-rigged and lengthened by 10ft to 184ft (56m) on deck with a much more graceful transom and di erent keel and stem. She had, in Robin’s words, “blossomed” from a boat that might initially have been compared to Schubert’s eight symphony – an unfinished masterpiece in other words. We went on board Adix some years later, in 2008, as she lay in Valencia, Spain, still under the same captain – Paul Goss. She was, and is to this day, one of the great sights in the world of big classics. Also in this issue, we reported – with some prescience as it turns out – that the first Brest Festival will be the festival to attend. The quadrennial giant is by some margin, the largest traditional sailing festival in the world, drawing crowds that number over a million when it rolls into town. Towards the end of the magazine, the most notable thing is how many nice, fishing boat-style motor-sailers are for sale, new (from Fisher) and used. Those who own motor-sailers love them – but these days they seem to occupy a tiny niche in the world of yachting in general.