Motor Yacht Maluti

[Jameslance]

Dear All,

I am presently trying to locate the whereabouts of a pre war gentleman’s motor yacht called Maluti.

She is a GL Watson design, built in the late 1930's, steel hull, approx 80 feet long with twin screw gardiners.

She is of fairly distinctive design with an upper wheel house configuration.

Last seen in Salcombe approx 6 years ago.

If anyone has any info on her whereabouts and or ownership I would be most grateful.

Thank you and best regards.

 

[Rog2]

Maluti history

Dear All,

I am presently trying to locate the whereabouts of a pre war gentleman’s motor yacht called Maluti.

She is a GL Watson design, built in the late 1930's, steel hull, approx 80 feet long with twin screw gardiners.

She is of fairly distinctive design with an upper wheel house configuration.

Last seen in Salcombe approx 6 years ago.

If anyone has any info on her whereabouts and or ownership I would be most grateful.

Thank you and best regards.

Hi James,
your message is rather old, hope you're still interested in Maluti, or, as I knew her in the early 1950's, Rinansey.
I have attached a photo of her as she was in 1952.
My father was engineer on Rinansey when she was owned by Mr. Senior. The info on the Clydebuilt database (http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=15908) implies that the owner was Leonard Henry Sr. but his surname was Senior. He owned a meat and fishpaste company, well known in the UK at that time. She was based on the river Hamble, and remained there after she was bought by Bruce Campbell, who established a shipyard on the river where he built small fast cruisers. Whilst he owned Rinansey, he modified her outward appearance slightly. He did away with the pole mast and fitted an inverted Y shaped mast on the wheelhouse roof. Ha also added a sloping lip around the top edge of the funnel. He removed the life ring holders from the front of the wheelhouse.
Whilst owned by Bruce Campbell, Rinansey was chartered to a film company and was a prominent part of the comedy film "True as a Turtle". If you search the internet it is possible to buy a DVD of this film. At the time of filming, my parents oened a house in Hamble, The Moorings, in Back Street (now Rope Walk). They ran it as a B&B as well as being our home. Some of the film crew stayed with us. I was 9 at the time and enjoyed watching the making of the film on the river.
The last information I found on the Internet about Maluti, as she was known is that she was in Italy in need of TLC.
Best regards,
Roger