American Lady, a newly built traditional Stroma yahl, is almost complete and is now offered for sale.
Built on the edge of the Clyde in Glasgow over the last two years by Peter Matheson, a long-time traditional Scottish boat builder, with the help of volunteers. Peter was inspired to build the American Lady after reading the book, The Voyage of The Aegre: From Scotland to the South Seas in a Shetland boat.
The American Lady’s 22 ft hull is 3/4 in larch, her deck pitch-pine, built in the traditional way by eye, with sawn frames added later. She’s a little beamier with heavier planking and framing than The Aegre, in the way of a Stroma yahl, to cope with fishing in the wild seas of the Pentland Firth. Her deck arrangement is different too, the overall whaleback deck of The Aegre being replaced by a more utilitarian, larger cockpit with a low deckhouse and cabin forward of the mast in the tradition of a Danish Eel Drifter of the 1900s. Her standing lug mainsail, jib and flying jib are the same as The Aegre‘s, but in addition, she has a 12 h.p. Yanmar diesel engine amidships.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire a new Stroma yahl, lovingly built by one of Scotland’s few remaining traditional wooden boat builders.
Take her fishing, take her sailing, take her anywhere in the world. You can trust the American Lady to look after you no matter what.
For full details and links to a detailed pictorial chronology of the building of American Lady, see https://nicholasgrainger.com.au/stroma-yahl-for-sale/
