Name Kytra

KYTRA was the first of 13 gentleman's yachts built by Herd and Mackenzie during the 1950s and 60s in an MFV trawler style. She is ketch rigged, larch on oak frames with an aluminium deck house and teak decks, and is powered by her original Gardner 6LX 114hp engine. Much of the interior is the original design.

Her original owner was very involved in the design process and, having appeared in Motor Boat and Yachting in 1959, KYTRA then starred at the London Boat Show. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice in the 1960s. Her second owner bought her in 1968, based her in Scotland and sold her to her third owner there in 1979. 

Her third owner, a professional skipper, owned her for more than 30 years. She was based in Scotland, from where she voyaged to the Baltic, Scandinavia, London and Paris and finally down to a base in Mallorca after a few years in Gibraltar.

The present owners are only the fourth owners since 1959.  They bought KYTRA in 2014, and she underwent a major refit at Nielsen’s in Gloucester before returning to the Mediterranean in 2017.  Now based in Port Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, she has provided them with a seasonal floating home from which they have been able to explore the Mediterranean in style, whilst still running their small businesses from the comfort of her saloon table and wheelhouse desk. 

Update, March 2025: Vessel for sale.