AN EAGLE-eyed reader got in touch with us this week, after spotting a former Milford Haven pilot boat on a Scottish quayside.

The 60ft Llanreath was built in 1972, one of two pilot boats bought at the time to work on the waterway.

The second was named Llanstadwell.

Mastebridge-born Emrys Inker, a retired journalist now living in Glasgow, spotted the vessel in its new home/

"Llanreath is now a lady of leisure and is being converted for a new life on the ocean wave under a labour of love by her new owner," he said.

The privately-owned boat is being converted into a live-aboard/charter vessel, with five bedrooms and bow seating - perfect for enjoying a whisky in the evening.

The boat still has its original diesel engine, with a cruising speed of nine knots.

Llanreath was bought about 10 years ago and sailed over four days from Milford to her new berth at Girvan on the west coats of Scotland midway between Ayr and the ferry port of Stranraer.

She called into Bangor, Fleetwood and Isle of Man on her 400-mile journey.

Emrys' late uncle Jack Mayhew was a fisherman in Milford Haven before becoming a ticket collector on the old Neyland-Hobbs Point ferry, and then on the Cleddau Bridge.