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 cockpit instruments (AWS, AWA, Depth, Boat Speed, Heading) in a custom removeable dashboard and a B&G Multi-purpose display. She also has a Furuno Navtex NX-300 Navtex receiver, and a Furuno LS6100 depth / fish-finder. New 

Lewmar Ocean 30ST, 2 speed, self-tailing jib sheet winches and a new Lewmar Size 7 One Speed Standard Winch for the main halyard were fitted in 2018. She also benefits from a Sterling Pro Sport shore power and battery charger unit to two 75 Amp hr batteries.

 

The galley was refitted with a new Taylors Orion 028 Paraffin stove, fuel tank and piping in 2025.

 

Wind of Clynder retains many original features and equipment including a one-off custom made paraffin cabin heater and her original Haslar SP servo vane self-steering. She has been regularly maintained and varnished using International Schooner.
Navigation Equipment                                              
Navigation Lights

Aqua Signal 40 Series Tri-Colour / Anchor Quick Fit Light Masthead light

Bow bi-colour light

RINA appro BRASS 12v MHL17B steaming light,

RINA appro BRASS 12v STL17B  Stern light.

Depth Instruments

B&G Airmar networked to NMEA2000.

Furuno LS6100 depth / fish-finder

Autopilot

Haslar Short Pendulum (SP) servo wind vane Self Steering.

Plug, wiring and mounting bracket only for a Raymarine ST2000+ Tillerpilot.

VHF

B&G V50 with M/H METZ VHF masthead Antenna (AIS compatible), Networked to NMEA2000 and B&G S90 cockpit Speaker

Speed/Log

B&G Airmar, networked to NMEA2000

Compass

Sestrel minor on cockpit bulkhead, Sestrel hand-bearing compass

Wind Instrument

B&G 508 M/H Wind Sensor with 20m cable, networked to NMEA2000

GPS

B&G ZG100 GPS Antenna, networked to NMEA2000

Plotter

B&G Zeus 3 7" Chart Plotter (2021)

B&G Multi-purpose display

B&G H5000 Hydra on board computer inc. and networked to NMEA2000 backbone
Sails
Rigging last changed

2014, new standing and running rigging (standing rigging: 7mm 1/19 stainless steel wire with Norseman terminals) new oak spreaders, running rigging – English Braids.

Genoa

Ratsey and Lapthorn No.1 Genoa (150%) 266 ft2, piston hanked, 2014

Tri Sail

Ratsey and Lapthorn No.2 jib (130%), piston hanked, 2014, 189 ft2

Mainsail

Mainsail (Sail No.92C) - Ratsey and Lapthorn, 2014, 231 ft2

Boom / Mainsail cover by Ratsey and Lapthorn, 2014

Spinnaker

Ratsey and Lapthorn, 2016 (red/white with Sail No.) approx. 745 ft2 (69.212 m2).

Storm Jib

Ratsey and Lapthorn, working jib, piston hanked, 2014, 100 ft2.

 

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