| Title: | SAILING |
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| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Changes in management/ownership of major boatbuilders are always
interesting. Maybe a little frightening if you've just bought a
boat from them!
I've answered my own question about Pearson (357.3). Bill Shaw found
a guy from South Carolina with sufficient interest and $$$. The
new pres. and major investor is J. Gordon Clayton. According to
Cruising World he's a non-sailor and used to be pres of CRS Sirrine's
Engineering Group, "the largest in the US". Can anyone shed any
light on Mr. Clayton or the company he used to be with.
I'm encouraged that the old Pearson management team has been retained.
I wonder how they'll change.
A dockyard conversation included the tidbit that C.E. Ryder has
changed hands. Anyone know anything about this? I know They've come
out with a large powerboat. Sport fisherman, I think.
Is anything happening with Cape Dory? My impression is that they're
sort of in a slide based on advertising and boat show presence.
Could be the market has lost interest in Alberg's designs?
Ed
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| 361.1 | Endeavour resurrected | CASAD2::THOMAS | Tue Sep 23 1986 16:41 | 7 | |
You can't keep a good company down I guess. A friendly yacht sales
person told me that Endeavour has been purchased by a Colordo company
and they will build the 48' and up models. THis same person must
be the person who selects RDF's yachting outfits!!
ED
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| 361.2 | Endeavour Lives Again ! | ORACLE::SERA | Wed Sep 24 1986 10:32 | 11 | |
Yes indeed, they are back in business again. I own a 1983 33'
which I might put up for sale soon, due to the new tax 'reform'.
I heard that they will be building 38's and up though. This
info came from the broker who sold me the boat in 1983. The
old company made good quality yachts, in my opinion, but when
it came to returning calls, they were not too good at that. But
then, most of the manufacturers are like that.
-Al-
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| 361.3 | enough.. | RDF::RDF | Rick Fricchione | Wed Sep 24 1986 12:44 | 4 |
re .1: Sigh
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| 361.5 | USMRM1::GFALVELLA | Mon Oct 27 1986 16:07 | 7 | ||
This is my second attempt to ask this question. I own a 1967 26'
Excaliber manufactured by Wayfarer Yacht Corp (Calif.). Did this same
company later become the Islander Yacht Corp or a part of it? What
is the current status of Islander?
George
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| 361.6 | Islander's gone out of business | CASAD3::THOMAS | Tue Oct 28 1986 08:55 | 9 | |
re .5
Dont know about Wayfarer. Islander went out of business last year
(early this year?) but I recall talking with a salesman at Newport who
said that someone had bought their molds and was going to continue the
boats under a different name.
Ed
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| 361.7 | C&C sinks | JAWS::COUTURE | Thu Nov 06 1986 12:28 | 2 | |
C&C swallowed the anchor this year as well. | |||||