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Gigi is a beautiful example of an 8 meter cruiser race (8mCR) James McGruer was involved in designing the rule for this class and built approximately 15 – 20 in the class. The objective of the class was to allow a lower cost and more versatile yacht than the pre-war metre classes. Arthur Robb, Olin Stephens and David Boyd also designed one yacht each to the class rules. Gigi of Clynder is unique in being the only one to have been fully teak planked and yawl rigged. She only competed once against her class in light winds. Many thanks to Giles for providing the history of this beautiful yacht.