Traditional Boats & Tall Ships Magazine sets sail again

We are pleased to announce that Traditional Boats & Tall Ships will be returning to the newsstands next week with what will be the 50th issue.

The new look magazine is produced in a coffee table style format and features content that focuses on maritime history, art, renovation & restoration, tall ships, barge & smack news, traditional boats and towns around Britain that have significant maritime history.

Editorial highlights include: an investigation into the plight of The City of Adelaide, currently languishing in Scotland and explores the various efforts afoot to try to preserve and save her. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, who has lent his support to plans in the past to save the vessel, has written the foreword to this feature. There are features on french schooner, La Belle Poule as well as look ahead to this year's Tall Ship Races. In the traditional boats arena, Catherine de Bont continues her popular Barge & Smack News and Robert Simper writes about American Skipjacks. The cover shot was taken by French photographer, Alain Guillou.

David Tickner, Editor-in-Chief of Wild Publishing Limited, is looking forward to the magazine’s return, “Since we acquired this title last year, I have been overwhelmed by the level of reader support it has. I am pleased that we have been able to have time to talk to many of the readers about what they liked and disliked and take many of their comments and suggestions on board prior to the magazine’s relaunch.”

The magazine will continue to be published alternate monthly and is priced £3.65. It will be available in branches of Borders and selected Independent newsagents in the UK as well as having an international distribution.

If you can't find the magazine locally to you, then just ask your newsagent to order the title in.

Comments

[James Walters]

Dear David,

I would like to say how much I enjoyed the 50th Edition of the magazine.

Some great photos, particularly the ice shot of the Europa.

The articles on the case for the maritime heritage industry and the City of Adelaide were also very thought provoking.

In 1949, the ship of the line Implacable (ex-Duguay Trouin), a Trafalgar ship was distroyed. It led to the Maritime Trust taking on the motto, Implacable - Never again.

Are we to see them have to update this motto, with City of Adelaide - Never again? The Maritime Trust looked at this motto as a way of trying to get the nation to seek to preseve its heritage following the public outcry that followed.

Sadly how quickly these things are forgotten.

As someone who works in the modern maritime world, it saddens me to see the way we are neglecting both our maritime past and its future. It really is as if nobody cares that we once had the largest merchant and military fleet in the world. The neglect could see us loose London a US$3bn industry soon in the future. With the financial market also closely linked to shipping, this could be catestrophic for our future economy.

You only have to see how France, the United States, Australia, and most recently even Sweden seek to promote thir interest in the maritime past to see that we are being left behind in the maritime heritage area. The list of replicas sailing the seas is a key way of preserving the past and on developing the country's youth for the future. It should be promoted.

France's latest effort, the replica of the 1770s frigate Hermione is of particular note showing how we should be undertaking similar projects. An article on this wonderful ship would be a great addition to a future edition of the magazine.

Kids of today may appreciate a static museum. However, they need to feel the ship alive and moving beneath their feet to make it really exciting, and to make it somthing that lives with them forever.

Maybe we should all think of how this can be made to happen.

Keep up the good work and keep the discussion going.

James Walters

[Kester J Bathgate]

Dear David Tickner,

I thought I must write congratulate you on the first number of the relaunched Traditional Boats and Tall Ships magazine, which arrived in my post a few days ago.

Having long been a reader of the magazine's predecessor, I was delighted by the mixture of in-depth articles, lighter pieces and interesting news, relating to the traditional tall ship world. I was particularly impressed, and not a little saddened, by the well written and thought-provoking articles on Britain's Maritime Heritage and the ill-fated 'City of Adelaide'. You are also to be congratulated on the magazine's layout and design and, not least, its generous size. I am pleased too that you thought fit to include a letters page, something which I thought the earlier magazine lacked and which gives a chance for the humble subscriber to contribute!

My best wishes for the future which, if the present issue is anything to go by, will see you go from strength to strength.

Sincerely,

Kester J. Bathgate,
Stockholm ,
Sweden.