1937 Robert Clarke Cutter - needs home

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Hello there, I am looking for some help with my fathers yacht Galante, a 1937 one off Robert Clarke cutter. I would like to find her a new home as she is a beautiful boat and wonderful to sail but she is in need of some restoration. We are looking to move her on from her current location in Inverness rather than sell her so transport/lifting costs only. Would anyone have any advice on where start/where to look etc.
 

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I remember Galante when she was at Dauntless boatyard in the early 90's, owned by a friend Terry Griffiths, he did a lot of good work on her then & she was a very well built & beautiful boat, Transport will be a low loader job.
There are some good boat movers about several in Essex but its a long way north before they start, must be one based up there?
 

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John Shepherd transport is based near Kilmarnock I believe and I have found him very good, and he tries to reduce the cost to you by adjusting the day of the move to fit in with an empty journey. I have had two boats brought from the south of England to the Clyde area so I know that he works all over the UK.
 

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I know Galante, by Robert Clark. Owned by Tom Raeburn for many years and kept on a mooring at Tighnabruaich during the summer and McAllister's, Dumbarton in the winter.

Fairly sure she is/was a 39' Mystery Class - but - might have been bigger and cutter rigged. Fast for her time. My parents owned Lassiette a 33' Inverie Class also by Robert Clark.

Last time I saw Galante she was on a mooring in Loch Aline looking a bit sad then I heard she had moved to Inverness area.
 

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I know Galante, by Robert Clark. Owned by Tom Raeburn for many years and kept on a mooring at Tighnabruaich during the summer and McAllister's, Dumbarton in the winter.

Fairly sure she is/was a 39' Mystery Class - but - might have been bigger and cutter rigged. Fast for her time. My parents owned Lassiette a 33' Inverie Class also by Robert Clark.

Last time I saw Galante she was on a mooring in Loch Aline looking a bit sad then I heard she had moved to Inverness area.
She wasn't a 39' Mystery class but in fact a 44' one-off Robert Clark cutter.
 

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When Terry Griffiths bought her she was laying somewhere on the Bristol channel, he sailed her back to Essex in late november iirc. He was singlehanded & did Falmouth to Ramsgate in a westerly gale. He said she was the fastest & best seaboat he had ever sailed. I cant remember how long it took to do that passage but he said it wasnt that long as she was running at a steady 9 plus knots the whole way. When he got into ramsgate he found a patch under the gooseneck had sprung a bit & it turned out the the mast had a big patch of rot in it. I made a new 12ft bottom section for the hollow spar & spliced it onto the original top section.

I would add that at that time Terry pulled most of the iron keelbolts to check them, they had been coated & bedded with white lead paste & came out as shiny & sound as the day she was built. He put them back again.
 
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