Class:-  Aux. Yawl – 17 Tons
Designer:-   James McGruer
Yard No:-     588             Sail No:-    1093
Original  Owner:-   Col. John Cameron
Current Owner(s):-  Richard Metcalfe & Peter Billinghurst
Email:-  peter@sule-skerry.info
Telephone:-   0141 334 9477
Location of Boat:-   Rhu  RNCYC
O.N. 300491

SULE SKERRY
1958



History of Boat:-
         Sule Skerry was the first of four Yawls built by McGruers to a similar design. She is the only one of the four not to be fitted with the traditional McGruer cruiser doghouse.     Col.Cameron sold her to John & Jennifer Guinness in 1967 and since then she has had  five further owners.      She has been based mainly on the Clyde, but in 1982 'found' some rocks in the Helford River following which she was brought back to McGruers for a major repair and worked on by some of the men who had originally built her.     In the summer of 2008 she was privileged to have a visit from her original owner, then aged 96.     Also the same year, as a 50th Birthday present, she was fitted with a new wooden boom made by Collars to very much the original design.

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