WAFLER

John F. Mark J and helpers towed newly refurbished Waffler round from Iona to Bendoran, her new home.

Waffler was originally built by William C Crawford for his daughter Joan, at his Erraid studios on the Pentlands, near Edinburgh in the 1920's and spent her formative years on trips around Tormore and the Sound of Iona from then till the late 1990's






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