Some yacht ownership love stories are passionate flings lasting a few years until it's on to bigger and better boats; others stand the test of time. The story of Kathleen Anne and her owner Alasdair Locke is the latter: he's stayed true to the 39-metre Feadship for nearly 15 years.
Even longer than his steadfast ownership of Kathleen Anne is his vast experience in the shipping and oil services sector. From his early career in investment banking to founding multiple oil-related companies, he has been a pioneer in his field for 50 years. Accolades in his career include being named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999 and Grampian Industrialist of the Year in 2001, and he received the International Business Achievement Award from the Scottish Business Achievement Awards Trust in 2007. In the longevity of both his career and yacht ownership, as well as his new venture producing Eight Lands organic vodka and gin at his distillery in Scotland, Locke seems to have enjoyed a reliable kind of success.
For a man who has built a career in shipping and spends his downtime relaxing on board his yacht, his roots are decidedly un-boaty. “My parents weren't
