British boat builders

[Tremlett 15]

I did hear recently and possibly just a rumour that Westwood had been sold and moving to Ireland.
Check out this http://www.westwooduk.com/

Moving to Northern Ireland UK. Know the guy that is said to have bought it.

 

[tico]

Dale

 

[P4Paul]

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Glad to see you took the time to fully read the T&C's....

 

[25931]

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Williams, aren't they the biggest boatbuilder by volume in the UK?

Cheers
Jimmy

What about Shetland ?

 

[Lozzer]

Oyster Dutch owned totally British built
Gunfleet Yachts, wholly British owned & built in East Anglia

I heard Gunfleet had pretty much shut down and outsourced its building to Windboats. I could be wrong.

Oyster now own their own manufacturing, it used to be outsourced. They experimented with building boats in Turkey but that didnt work so they will build the new 118 on the South coast.

 

[aquapower]

I heard Gunfleet had pretty much shut down and outsourced its building to Windboats. I could be wrong.

I was talking to a friend at LIBS who looks after a lot of their transport and he said the same. Built by the same guys who built for Oyster.

 

[doug748]

Cornish Crabbers - dunno about ownership though
Multimarine build their racing cats in Cornwall I think.

 

[hornidge]

Red Bay Boats
Coastline
Solent
MST
BAE Systems
Ribeye
Revenger

 

[Time Out]

All Richard Matthews is doing (owner of Gunfleet) is using his original model when he owned Oyster.

Owning the brand and the marketing machine and outsourcing the build to (one of ) the original Oyster builders now Oyster build in house in Southampton.

Gunfleet may have closed their factory but I don't think the landlord will be chasing them for rent.

 

[sailorman]

All Richard Matthews is doing (owner of Gunfleet) is using his original model when he owned Oyster.

Owning the brand and the marketing machine and outsourcing the build to (one of ) the original Oyster builders now Oyster build in house in Southampton.

Gunfleet may have closed their factory but I don't think the landlord will be chasing them for rent.

Have you checked RM is the owner of Gunfleet

 

[Time Out]

In fairness not for a while. Nothing would surprise me though. The mans not daft ..... However I believe he was the one that moved it back to the Oyster model and build elsewhere and not in his factory.

I have not heard anything to suggest he is not though. Unless you care to declare ?

 

[sailorman]

In fairness not for a while. Nothing would surprise me though. The mans not daft ..... However I believe he was the one that moved it back to the Oyster model and build elsewhere and not in his factory.

Yes, then taken over by Windboats along with the remaining staff.

 

[Time Out]

I would be surprised if he was not involved still in some way.

 

[rafiki_]

Red Bay Boats
Coastline
Solent
MST
BAE Systems
Ribeye
Revenger

Camel Laird on the Mersey?

 

[sailorman]

I would be surprised if he was not involved still in some way.

so #29 might be questionable

 

[Time Out]

On mobile so don't know what post 29 is.

 

[sailorman]

On mobile so don't know what post 29 is.

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Re: British boat builders[/h]

All Richard Matthews is doing (owner of Gunfleet) is using his original model when he owned Oyster.

Owning the brand and the marketing machine and outsourcing the build to (one of ) the original Oyster builders now Oyster build in house in Southampton.

Gunfleet may have closed their factory but I don't think the landlord will be chasing them for rent. ​

 

[Time Out]

Sorry don't follow so I'm out. Have a good weekend.

 

[paul salliss]

Assembled in Btriain is more relevant I think ,with boats
Company structure less important .Its all about ( once you have designed it) basically importing components like Volvo Man , Cat engines , marine-air , Waeco, Lewmar, Onan, ray marine, Furuno,etc -some Chinese GRP ,
And a UK workforce putting it all together to resemble a boat ,not any boat but a boat that actually sells in favour of the competition
A great " brand " image helps in today's global market

Well said and good choice of words, I am a a Broom owner, and I own a British boat, however it's a global market and as a country that is almost entirely based on services sales you can't be to picky about what constitutes British anymore and what doesn't, those days are long gone and most on here are sensible enough to realise that

 

[webby]

Just bought a fantastic British boat built in Oundle - http://englishharbouryachts.com/boats/eh29