Serengeti
ex Naraina
Serengeti, originally named Naraina, is an auxiliary ketch designed by A. Mylne & Co. (design 473) and built in 1970 by Bute Slip Dock on the Isle of Bute. The vessel measures 50 feet on the waterline with a beam of 16.5 feet and draft of 7.7 feet, carrying 2,000 square feet of sail. She is powered by a Volvo Penta six-cylinder oil engine rated at 100 bhp. The yacht remains in existence.
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Design 473 was produced by A. Mylne & Co. during the 1970s, a decade in which the Glasgow-based design office remained active in the Scottish yacht-building industry. By this period, the office was concentrating on smaller cruising yachts and auxiliaries rather than the larger racing and cruising vessels of earlier decades. The auxiliary ketch was a conservative and proven type: seaworthy, relatively economical to operate, and well-suited to family cruising and small-scale commercial work. Bute Slip Dock, the builder, was among several Clyde-based and island yards maintaining yacht construction traditions into the latter 20th century.