Name Morvarch

MORVARCH is one of 33 vessels of the Inchcape range of motorsailers, built by Eyemouth Boatbuilders to commercial fishing boat scantlings. This Inchcape 45 is one 5 built, presenting today as she was delivered to her first owner. A very strong and hardy, capable, go anywhere MFV constructed in same form and scale of a traditional Scottish fishing vessel with gaff ketch sail rig of 430 sq foot with accommodation for 8 persons. 

Built on oak grown frames, oak keel and iroko planking. Jack Jones designed the Inchcape range of vessels to provide new markets for Scottish boat builders in response to a collapse in tradition fishing boat building in the early 1960’s. Jones was the last truly prolific boat designers in the UK, the Inchcape range being the closest traditional MFV style pleasure boat of the post war period. Very few survive today. 

MORVARCH has spent much of her working life in Scotland is a well known and loved vessel on the West Coast of Scotland. She is the only Inchcape 45 that remains as she was built and delivered to her commissioning owner and represents the very best example of what a tradition Scottish commercial boat builder was able to produce, delivering a unique pleasure craft constructed with the massive scantlings of commercial fishing boats of the period.

These vessels had a range of up to 2000 nautical miles and were sailed extensively across the North Sea, the Baltic, the Med, with two having crossed the Atlantic. The interior fittting out is comfortable whilst sparse. This enables an unfettered view of how these vessels, both commercial and pleasure, were built and held together. Frames, carlings, beam shelves, stingers, stem post, stern post and keel can all be readily seen and admired, giving a full understanding of their phenomenal strength and endurance. 

No other known vessels of the time or since can demonstrably show the immense skill, knowledge and generational applied know how on just how these vessels were constructed and over engineered for their intended use. MORVARCH was re-engined with Gardner 6 LW in 1968, to replace the unreliable Newage (commercial BMC offering) fitted at launch. MORVARCH as had three previous owners, the last being 30 years.