1964 Mcgruer Lorne Class Variant

Description

Wind of Clynder

‘Wind of Clynder’ is an exceptional yacht, built to a very high specification by McGruer & Co. Ltd of Clynder. Designed by the renowned Scottish designer George McGruer, she was commissioned in 1962 and launched in April 1964 on the Clyde to a modified design of their Lorne Class, for Lt. Col. Godfrey Vinycomb, the editor of the Clyde Cruising Club Handbooks. With his wife he used her to chart extensive Scottish waters, in particular the North West coast, Orkney and Shetland and Ireland and France. She came into her present ownership in 2013 and has been restored and maintained to the highest standard whilst retaining as much as possible of her original charm. Slightly longer than the standard Lorne Class (which gives elegant extended lines and increased internal accommodation) she had the highest build specification possible at the time, Lloyds +100A1, and was McGruer’s show boat at the Earl’s Court boat show in London in January 1964.

Her hull is varnished and splined ¾” teak planking, bronze screwed to laminated mahogany frames at 11” centres to an afromosia keelson with a lead keel on bronze keel bolts. All through hull fittings are bronze. The deck is double skinned, teak on 5mm bruynzeel ply and was renewed in 2006, and a new Lofrans Royal anchor windlass fitted.

The cabin trunk with opening bronze port-lights, cockpit and interior furniture are all of hand finished, richly varnished mahogany. The mast and boom are both varnished spruce and the mast rests in a tabernacle and has 2 custom made sheer-legs (McGruer hollow spars) that can be used for raising and lowering the mast and one of these doubles as a spinnaker pole. Double forestays allow for two piston-hanked jibs to be flown on downwind passages.

She has accommodation for five, all in fixed berths, including a pilot berth to port aft and 2 in the fo’c’sle separated by a closing mahogany panelled door. There is a separate toilet compartment with Baby Blake w.c. with mahogany seat and a swivel-out wash basin. The main saloon has two berths, a 30” mahogany saloon table with two folding leaves, shelf storage with mahogany fiddles and a lockable ‘bonded stores’ drinks locker. There are also wet and dry hanging lockers and ample under berth stowage as well as a generous tool locker midships in the fo’c’sl.

She has a deep cockpit with a lifting lid cockpit locker, a floor hatch giving access to the drive shaft and stern gear, a stern locker and a folding spray hood by Jeckells on a steamed bentwood frame.

She has a  Nanni 3.75 HE 21 hp (15.67 kW) diesel engine (installed April 1995) driving through a 1” stainless steel shaft an Equipoise fixed three bladed bronze prop (renewed in 2014). The engine has been regularly serviced and the stern gland was refurbished in 2022. The gearbox was replaced in 2008 with a sonic drive gearbox. The diesel fuel tank holds 8 gallons (36 litres).

She had a major equipment refit in 2014 including new standing and running rigging (standing rigging: 7mm 1/19 stainless steel wire with Norseman terminals) new oak spreaders, new sails (Ratsey & Lapthorn, mainsail, No.1 Genoa, No.2 intermediate, 3 working jib, and spinnaker), instruments (B&G H5000 Hydra inc. NMEA2000 backbone, depth and speed transducers [both Airmar], a B&G V50 VHF with B&G S90 cockpit Speaker, and B&G masthead wind sensors), ground-tackle (genuine CQR anchor with 50m of 8mm chain), safety gear and Equipoise prop and full professional exterior re-varnishing. Since then she has been regularity serviced and maintained. More recent equipment updates include Raymarine class B AIS, a B&G Zeus 3 7″ Chart Plotter on a custom mahogany mounting, 5 x B&G analogue

Specification

• Make: Mcgruer
• Model: Lorne Class Variant
• Year: 1964
• location: Inverness, Highland and Islands
• Beam: 7.87m
• Engine Power (HP): 21
• Fuel Capacity: diesel
• No of Engines: 1
• LOA: 29.3m
• Condition: Used
• Boat Type: Sail
• Displacement: 4900.0 kgs
• Engine Hours: 1500