Name Girl Sybil

GIRL SYBIL was built as a fishing vessel by Kitto of Porthleven, and originally named PATRICIA. She is of carvel planked pitch pine construction with a 1985 5-Series Ford 84hp 4-cyl diesel engine. She worked out of Newlyn as a pilchard driver.

The boat would have been renamed GIRL SYBIL when acquired by the Vingoe family of Newlyn in the mid 1930s. She was then sold to the Stevenson family who continued to work her throughout the war years.

It is believed that at the end of the Second World War she was owned by Tommy Jewell. Tommy had contracted TB during his service in France in the early years of the Second World War and was advised by a GP that salt air might bring relief to him. Following doctors' advice, he borrowed money to buy GIRL SYBIL from a family member and bought the boat around the time the war ended. The loan to purchase the vessel was made by Bobby Jewell.

Decommissioned from fishing in about 1965, she became a coded charter vessel operating in Cornwall and Suffolk. 

She was first returned to sail in Cornish ownership in the early 1990s when extensive hull work was done, and had a further refit in Suffolk between 1998-2003. In 2005 she came to Dartmouth and was later taken out at Noss Marina for an alteration to her ballast and a refit. She is now a comfortable family yacht. 

Believed under new ownership as of 2025. 

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