Fara
Fara is a yacht of 28 ft waterline length designed by A. Mylne & Co. as Design 394 in 1938. She was built that year by Bute Slip Dock, located in Bute. The vessel remains in existence. Her dimensions were 28 ft on the waterline, 7.2 ft beam, and 5.1 ft draft, with a sail area of 323 square feet.
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StructureDesign No. 394
Fara
Designed 1938
Historical Context
During the 1930s, A. Mylne & Co. continued to develop designs for cruising yachts of varying size and type. Design 394, produced in 1938, falls within the office's mature period, when Alfred Mylne and his successors had refined approaches to hull form, stability, and accommodation across a range of vessels. The late 1930s saw continued activity at Scottish yards including Bute Slip Dock, though the outbreak of war in September 1939 would shortly interrupt yacht building throughout Britain. Fara's survival makes her a tangible record of this pre-war phase in both Mylne's practice and Scottish maritime craftsmanship.