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£125,000
1895 Daniel Fyfe - Morris & Lorimer 28 ft Loch Fyne Skiff Gaff Cutter 1895-2022
Price:
£125,000
Financing:
Summary:
Used
Location:
Coatham Mundeville
Description:
Few small yachts of this age enjoy such lavish care for their future. MARISHKA is lucky, but as her history reveals, she's a special one. The unmistakable and beautiful lines of the Loch Fyne Skiff evolved - heavily influenced by yacht design - from the early 1880s on the west coast of Scotland as a seaworthy, seakindly and practical solution for the insatiable demand for herring. Discerning cruisers warmed to their virtues and many were built as yachts. Apart from being fabulously rebuilt by her present experienced carpenter owner, MARISHKA has the added attraction of ancestry from a branch of the Fifes of Fairlie. Fully authentic externally, and practical and comfortable down below, MARISHKA presents an enticing fusion of old and new. MARISHKA was two years into her second century when, on a dark and stormy Cornish night, disaster struck. A severe gale disturbed her Truro River tidal winter berth: she heeled out rather than in to the quay and fell over with the falling tide. The mud is soft around there and the damage was believed limited to a few cracked frames. Her owner - still her owner, an experienced carpenter - with the insurance company's blessing, decided to bring her to a boat shed near home to effect the repairs himself. Perhaps inevitably with a very old, always maintained but never restored yacht, the more he pulled her apart the more he found needing replaced. Twenty seven years and much labour of love later, he finished. MARISHKA has enjoyed a " keel up" rebuild following almost exactly the fashion and scantlings of her original build, but, with the benefit of hindsight, not replicating elements that were bound to fail again. The floors and the hanging knees are all laminated oak this time, rather than copper fastened wrought iron. Few small yachts of this age enjoy such lavish care for their future. MARISHKA is lucky, but as her history reveals, she's a special one. All the 'new' oak is from reclaimed stock... Still available at ListedBuy!
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Posted:
March 21 on ListedBuy
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