Ealasaid

In 1952 this vessel won the Lipton Cup at Cowichan Bay BC Canada. Robert Lawson (Email to Nauticapedia 17/07/2022) stated "I owned her briefly from 1988 to 1989 when we lived in Genoa Bay. This vessel was designed by Halliday and built in Vancouver in 1928 by/for Ken Mackenzie and actively raced for many years with great success, even winning the Lipton Cup. This vessel was a B class sloop. Over the many years Ken Mackenzie owned her alterations were made including adding about 3 ft to her stern to increase her heeled waterline length so this vessel would be more competitive as newer, faster boats appeared on the scene.

By 1988 this vessel was a semi derelict laying at the dock in Pedder Bay where we bought her and had a wild sail in a strong westerly up to James Island. We installed a new engine and cleaned her up and sold her in 1989 to Doug Smith, a Nanaimo boat broker at the time.

He continued the refit for several years, sailing with his family in the summer.

He sold her to Marina Sacht and her husband and they did more work on her, installing a new teak deck.

They sold her to a young man who worked at the Biological Research Station at departure Bay, he had a new mast fitted, and this vessel was moored there for many years. I last saw her there in 2017. The annals of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (published 1966) have a good record of her racing history."