More History

After posting the Blue Book, Mike Beckett who sails the beautiful Nobby derived yawl Bonita checked his 1947 Lloyds and notes that the Watermota engine is listed as having been installed in 1938.

We went checking and discovered that we have never written up the November 1937 Yachting Monthly article which has some good photographs. Alison has now rectified this and you can read it here.

But the 1938 RCC article only mentions that the single cylinder engine had been made to work.

So it looks like the Watermota was installed after she returned to Liverpool, and possibly even at Gallows Point after she was laid up for the winter.

So it might never have been used until after the war.

We decided against the brass plaque and have had the old registration number carved on the new beam. I'm looking forward to seeing it.