On the same weekend as American outsider Todd Hamilton received the famous Claret Jug after winning the British Open Golf Championship on the foreshore at Troon, a little way down the coast brothers Robin and Donald Gibson of Dunure were making final preparations to start fishing with their new boat, Spes Bona V BA 107.

Donald and Robin Gibson's achievement in realising their dream of a new boat is of greater significance to them than Todd Hamilton's sinking the winning putt.

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