The immediate post-WarII period marked the beginning of the decline of Sixes as racing sailboats.  Shipping a 4 T. boat and transporting and housing a 5-man crew is expensive – too expensive at the time.  Many Sixes were converted to cruising, with the addition of cabins and motors.

I too was converted to cruising, but I had the luck of falling into the hands of a syndicate of young sailors who appreciated my pedigree and my racing lines – and refused to install a motor.  They sailed me all over the western Hebrides, keeping me across from Tobermory.  Here are a few pictures from that period:

In 1983, the young sailors had aged to the point of fathering children.  I too had aged and needed a thorough re-fitting.

With that, we parted ways on the best of terms.