Key details
- Current boat name
- Cair Vie
- Boat class
- 7330
- Function
- Fishing and Hunting
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 9.3 / 30ft 6in
- Leeward
- Keel - long
- Masts
- 2 Wood
- Rig type
- Bermudian Ketch
- Propulsion
- Sail/engine
Design and build
- Designer
- Watterson & Neakle
- Date of build
- 1934
- Place of build
- Peel, I O M
Current status
- Present use
- Sailing
History
This vessel was designed and built as a fishing boat in 1934 by Watterson and Neakle at Peel in the Isle of Man in what may have been an attempt to re-vitalise the local fishing industry. After a few years CAIR VIE changed hands and by 1951 had been removed from the fishing register as she was no longer being used for fishing. She was converted to a yacht. Her rig was subsequently changed from a lugger to a Bermudan cutter ketch and her original National gas oil engine was replaced by a Ruggerini diesel. January 2008