CB-inspired voyaging
Thank you for your magazine, my husband has been subscribing for years and it inspired us to buy our classic yacht Boojum from 1909 four years ago (she is on the National Historic Ships Register). We launched a refit that took us longer with covid but last summer we raced her in the Round the Island Race and in Cowes Classics Week. After that we went on a trip with the whole family (children two and four years old then) from Cowes to the Channel Islands, then along the West Country. We decided to move her down to the Mediterranean but she suered a mechanical failure in Porto, so another refit. We are just on board her again: the family are cruising down to the south of Portugal (no sights of Orcas, so far thankfully). There don’t seem to be many families who sail a classic yacht; we are having some great family times cruising and living on board her for a whole summer (we rent out our house in the meantime in Cowes, Isle of Wight). It has not been easy with all the repairs, but throughout it all we have really met several very passionate people that have shown dedication to this classical yacht, which has been heartwarming. Well thank you for the good read, and inspiration. I’ve attached some pictures.