blakes boat yard service list 1995

[jillR]

blakes boat yard service list 1995

[Hockham Admiral]

Fascinating, Jill.

 

Would the Mark Funnell at Woods, Potter Heigham, be the one I knew at the RNSYC who ran Hardy Marine until his death last year?

[Oddfellow]

Yes, that's Mark Funnell.

 

Just look at that list of names. All those businesses gone. You could fit that list on the back of a DL envelope now.

[jillR]

yes a few yards you never hear mentioned these days

 

just noticed

 

the lovely mike Harvey and his yard wayford marina is missing

 

from the list

 

mike was the Harvey from Harvey eastwood

 

wayford marina was not a blakes yard as it was for private boats

 

I wonder what other yards are missing

[jillR]

hi jonzo

 

 

mike Harvey sadly died in a glider accident in the mid ninties

 

he used to train pilots to fly and still liked to fly himself after he left

 

to run the boat yards.

[trambo]

Interesting Jill. So I take it he took over E.J.Eastwood and put his name to the front. I had always assumed a member of the family had taken over.

 

 

 

 

wayford marina was not a blakes yard as it was for private boats

 

 

 

Wayford Marina was a Blakes yard for many years from the 1950s to (I would have to check) the late 80s. Started as Wayford Bridge Yacht Station. Not sure but think there may have been a Windboat connection at one point.

 

Fred

[gancanny]

you are correct about the windboat connection fred as i hired from wayford in 1969 on a boat called  "CONCORDE" which was a ferrocrete wind boat.

 

  following on from what jill said regarding  mike harveys death in a glider,  the owner of the yard over the river,  john linford,  also died in a light aircraft accident,  now that yard was a blakes, known as  neatishead boatyard