Period | Owner | Notes |
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1939-1952 | Major Sir Ernest Harston | Harston commissioned the design and build of Amokura. He sailed her for the 1939 season before laying her up in a wartime mud berth at Moody's. She next sailed in 1946 and Harston raced and cruised her extensively in the late 1940s |
1953 | EA Crosby | Crosby, a Manchester builder, apparently bought Amokura whilst she was moored in the middle of a river with only the hand on board. He moored up alongside and simply asked 'how much' and the deal was done within a couple of days. He then sold her to Millar a year later |
1954-1960 | George Millar DSO MC | Millar was a writer, best known for his books about his time operating behind enemy lines during WW2. He also wrote Oyster River about the summer of 1963 he spent aboard Amokura in the Gulf of Morbihan with his wife Isabel |
1960-1968 | Horace Morgan | Morgan, Senior Partner at Sir William Halcrow & Partners, kept Amokura at Corpach, near Fort William for much of the 1960s, where she was kept for use by Halcrow staff on the firm's major hydro-electric projects in the Scottish Highlands |
1969-1979 | Captain Richard Carr MBE | Carr was a friend of George Millar and POW at the same prison camp during WW2. He worked at the family business which was famous for making Carr's Water Biscuits. Richard Carr re-rigged Amokura with aluminum masts reduced sail area (his friend Millar disagreed with the latter!) |
1979-? | Alex Pulver and WT Clarke | Two Americans who bought Amokura and promptly embarked on an extensive refit following which they sailed her to the Caribbean, US East Coast and back to the Mediterranean |
1990-1995 | Peter Guan | During the early 1990s Amokura was seized by the Spanish authorities having been used for drug smuggling. She was later sold to Guan, under whose ownership she remained in Vilamoura |
1996-2004 | David Japp | Japp, a serial classic boat enthusiast and restorer, bought Amokura having spotted her whilst on holiday in Portugal. He embarked on a 4-year restoration at the IBTC Lowestoft, and in parallel compiled much of the archive materials included on this website |
2004-2006 | Jane Scrinar & Anthony Harwood | Siblings Scrinar and Harwood owned Amokura for a short period. She remained in the UK |
2006-2012 | Peter & Gillian Phillips | The Phillips, a farming family from Oxfordshire, UK, have owned 6 classic yachts of which Amokura is the most recent. They initially based her in the Solent before moving her to Spain (Valencia) then the South of France (Cogolin) |
2012- | Paul Moxon | Amokura's current owner sailed her back to Falmouth in 2012 for some improvement works then back to Palma in 2013 |