Part of the notion of Homecoming is the repatriation of information – recovering connections as well as building new ones.

Here is just such an initiative. For Argyll has tracked down a classic yacht, built by Alexander Robertson & Sons, Yachtbuilders of Sandbank at the Holy Loch north of Dunoon. Sandbank was later the site of the US Navy’s Polaris Submarine Base in Scotland.

The yacht is the Ron, a 50′ gaff-rigged ketch designed by the Scottish naval architect J A McCallum Continue reading →