Extraordinary Boats: Cayman 28 Rooster

In their Extraordinary Boats series, Yachting World profiles the Cayman 28 Rooster, a ‘gentleman’s skiff’, and a 28ft sportsboat with racks, originally designed for the shallow waters of the Inner Sound in the Cayman Islands.

Zipping through the herd of mainly production family cruisers enjoying the sunshine on a picture postcard Sound of Mull at Scotland’s ever popular West Highland Week, the Cayman 28 Rooster is instantly recognizable as a wolf in, well, wolf’s clothing.

The low freeboard, slender hulled Mills-designed all-carbon sportsboat with its big bowsprit, powerful rig, large A-sail and crew on racks slides effortlessly past Duart Castle, ancient home of the marauding Maclean clan, on a passage race to Tobermory where a night in the infamous Mishnish bar awaits. – Full story