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£225,000
1973 Mc Gruer 49 Ft Bermudan Ketch 1973-2020
Price:
£225,000
Financing:
Summary:
Used 1973
Location:
Coatham Mundeville
Description:
BORDER LEGEND is a resurrected masterpiece from the sunset days of traditional yachtbuilding in Britain; when finely-built wooden yachts were still just about the norm, and their designers and builders could call on a century or more of handed down skills. BORDER LEGEND's design by George Mc Gruer is a natural evolution from the renowned work of his father, James, and her build was by the last generations of a highly skilled workforce managed by the wider Mc Gruer family from the 1890s into the early 2000s. Among the last wooden yachts designed and built there in the early 1970s were three wholesome, elegant and fast 49-55 ft ketches. While the ocean passagemaking exploits of CUILAUN and TALISKER MHOR (ex CERESIO) have become legendary, their smaller sister, BORDER LEGEND (launched as GLORY B IV for furniture manufacturer W. J. Barton of Cheshire, later Hampshire), remained under the radar: a bona fide family cruiser, latterly Solent-based. Circumstances saw her fall on hard times before recent rescue and a major refit under current, experienced ownership - so that one of the finest, last generation wooden yachts is now available for the pure enjoyment - and it can only be that - of her next owner. On 4th November 2020, almost 14 months after we started, BORDER LEGEND slipped from her berth under her own power for the first time since 2011. I can’t say that I wasn’t a little nervous. But she slid down the river, gaining admiring glances, and then out into the Solent. There wasn’t a breath of wind to start with, but by lunchtime a sea breeze started to fill in, and soon we had 12 knots over the deck and BORDER LEGEND picked up her skirt and went sailing. Having first seen her in a mud berth, I’d no idea how she was going to handle, but she was as beautifully balanced and as sure footed as her lines suggest. After a picnic lunch and a glorious sail, we handed sails and headed back up the river to Bursledon. When we got back to our berth. Still available at ListedBuy!
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Posted:
March 21 on ListedBuy
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