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| from a photo by Ian G Gilchrist |
Sanda's first owners were W & T E Russell, who raced her successfully until the end of 1933, when they sold her to James Buchanan, member of the Royal Northern Yacht Club from 1929, of the Govancroft Pottery, Glasgow, who raced her up to the War. Mr Buchanan originally owned Iona, one of the newer Bute Slip boats, and one can speculate that he maybe felt the McGruer boats were faster.
She is shown as registered to R K Sharp in 1951 (but why did Mr Sharp sell Bernera and then buy another Islander?).
By 1977 she belonged to Mr and Mrs C P Kingston of Penarth.
Now in Yorkshire with Huw Jones, who found her near Mallaig in 2009.
For those who are interested her hull colour was originally dark blue.
The image shows her starting at Hunter's Quay in the Tarbert Race, just ahead of Dragon no UK 26. This Dragon, Argee, was built by Robertsons in 1937 for Miss Sheila Leitch, so we can approximately date the photo. (I suspect she may have been a member of the famous Tarbert sailmaker's family.)
Miss Sheila Lietch was my grandmother, her husband's side were sugar related, she may have had the yacht built for her eighteenth, I can find out more , herself and her mother were very keen racing yachtwomen
ReplyDeleteTo correct my earlier comment, it was her father Eoin Lietch who was connected with sugar, I am sure I have photograph of her and her sister inspecting the yacht at Robertson Yard
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