Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe GRIMSAY, Scotland, May 25 (UPI) -- A 75-year-old wooden boat that once served as the lifeline to a remote Scottish island has been reclaimed after years abandoned in the mud. The 28-foot motorboat carried mail, livestock, supplies and people between Heisgeir in the Monach Islands and North Uist. It belonged to the MacDonalds, the last family to live in Heisgeir, who left the Monachs in the 1940s. Advertisement During its years of service in the Hebrides, the boat was named Pacaid, Gaelic for package. On Saturday, it is due to appear at Grimsay Boat Day on North Uist with the more romantic name Morning Star, The Scotsman reports. "She is part of the community," said Mary Norton of the Grimsay Boatshed Trust. "In future, she will be used for short trips for visitors or school groups in inshore waters, and she will be a working boat again." Ronald Maclean, a traditional boat builder on North Uist, spent three years reconditioning the boat. Pacaid inspired at least one poet, who wrote: "The white crest of the ocean dancing round her prow; with flippers of brass on her instead of sails."
