Nirvana
Nirvana is a motor yacht of 26 feet, designed by A. Mylne & Co. as Design No. 49 in 1900 and built by P R Maclean of Rosneath. The vessel remains in existence. She is fitted with a Watermota petrol motor (4-cylinder, 15/62 BHP, installed 1968), with a beam of 9 feet and draft of 6 feet. Original sail area was 600 square feet. The yacht represents the firm's work in the transitional period between pure sailing vessels and mechanically propelled craft.
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MiscDesign No. 49
Nirvana
Designed 1900
Historical Context
Design No. 49 was produced during the formative years of A. Mylne & Co., the Glasgow-based yacht design office founded in 1896. The period around 1900 marked a crucial transition in yacht design, as reliable petrol and paraffin engines became commercially available and economically practical for smaller craft. Mylne's designs from this era often bridged sailing tradition and mechanical innovation. Rosneath, on the Gareloch, was an important centre of Scottish yacht building, home to several established shipwrights. The survival of Nirvana provides evidence of the durability and continued utility of Mylne's early designs, particularly in their adoption of motorisation without wholesale abandonment of sailing capability.