Meanwhile, what of the other boats? Just before the


war, the Jacket family sold Marion to someone in Fowey on condition that she would never be sold back to anyone in the Falmouth area, as they thought they would find it too heartbreaking to see her again. Sometime in the 50s, a St Mawes man, Stanley Green, went to Fowey with a view to buying her, but for some reason decided not to. She has not been heard of since. Chin Chin was laid up at Freshwater Boatyard in St Mawes during the war, but not much is known of her from then until the 50s when, while she was lying in a field in Penryn already in a sorry state, a tractor drove into her. That was the final straw and the decision was made to break her up. Wahine is thought to have broken her moorings in 1978. As a result of the damage caused, her keel was removed for scrap and she was burnt.


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The rest is good news but only against all the odds. George Corke sold Magpie in the late 60s. Information is then sketchy – she may at some point have been used for dredging for oysters in the Carrick Roads, and she subsequently had a coachroof put on her. Around 1972 David Luck bought her “from a girl called Gail at Penpol Boatyard”. David’s family owned the St Austell Brewery and he lived on board Magpie for two summer seasons in the Scillies when he was looking after the company’s interests there. Sometime after he sold her in the mid 70s,


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Above: Myrtle and Magpie Right: Outrageous amount of sail on Myrtle


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