Ownership history

The ownership history of Amokura from 1939 to 2012
  • 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