 John Muir , who served as a keeper with the NLB for 39 years all told , had a posting to Skerryvore from 1902 to 1914 . He helped complete a new " landing grating " , as the slender metal walkway was called , that made landings possible in conditions previously considered " hopeless " . He baked his own bread and scones and made an inlaid table and Iona marble inkstand . 
