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Saturday, November 16, 2013

A traditional boat builder.

The Colne Marine and Yacht Company. Founded in 1952 by Mr. Guy Harding. He built some boats in the old Rosabelle stores just along the Quay. With the coming of fibre glass his building of wooden boats finished, and the firm closed in the mid 1990's.

Before The Colne Marine and Yacht Company came into being, it was called the V.-G. Company. (E.G.Vince.- Ger. Gifford.) 

Wivenhoe Memories collection.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have access to a letter, sent by G Giifford who supplied his address as POLARIS yacht, Wivenhoe. It was dated the 22/10/47 and within the content there was mention of someone called VINCE who was described as the Skipper of the yacht. The letter talked about a certain person going there to have a weekend out on the yacht. I couldnt find anything out about this yacht or the people who owned it.