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The Lady Sophie was built by Dickies of Loch Fyne in 1911 and was originally named the Lady Jean. She was flush decked (See photograph from the Boatman magazine in 1912) and had twin lug sails. She was powered by a Gardiner paraffin 2 cylinder engine. She was registered again in Dublin as the Lady Sophie and is thought to have been named after Lady Sophie of the Guinness family but this cannot be confirmed. There is no record of her history from the 1930's to the 1960's but she may have spent some of this time in the Med. At some time a wheelhouse was added in front of the cockpit and she was refitted at the yard of Machin Knight & Sons in 1970. In the late 1980s she was re-decked, re-engined and the wheelhouse was enlarged and moved over the engine amidships. Also at this time she was re-rigged with bowsprit, a topmast added to the mizzen mast which became the main mast and a jib boom added. The sail sheets are traditional type synthetic rope and wooden blocks. She was re-caulked with cotton above and oakum below the waterline and the hull was sheathed in copper which was bronze tacked over bitumen and hessian. She cruises comfortably at 6 knots under both sail and power. There are no known defects at present apart from the normal end of season bumps and scrapes. |
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