La Fourchette
La Fourchette was a yacht design developed by A. Mylne & Co. in 1905, registered as design number 119 in the office records. Little information survives regarding the vessel's construction, builder, or technical specifications. The current status and location of any yacht built to this design remain unknown. This entry represents the design itself as part of the comprehensive A. Mylne & Co. archive.
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Design Archive
Lines PlanDesign No. 119
La Fourchette
Designed 1905
Historical Context
A. Mylne & Co., founded in 1896, was one of Scotland's leading yacht design offices through the early twentieth century. The period around 1905, when La Fourchette was designed, represented a mature phase of the practice, following early success with cruising and racing yachts. Design number 119 falls within a sequence reflecting the office's steady output during the Edwardian era. However, unlike some contemporary designs from the practice, La Fourchette left minimal documentary trace—no builder attribution, no technical drawings in surviving archives, and no known subsequent history. This scarcity is representative of challenges facing yacht design historians: many early twentieth-century designs were never built, built in obscurity, or their records were lost to time.