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Farrant, A
1935 RCYC Regatta (10 August)
Sunbeams results: 1st Aida (H. G. Sicklemore); 2nd Maranui (A. Farrant); 3rd Merry-thought (C.B. & Mrs Tracey), 4th Flame (E. K. Tremayne) and 5th Solaire (Mrs Claude Lanyon). Aida was a new boat built in 1935.
Maranui had been sold by Capt. C.H. Tremayne to A. Farrant on the undertaking that she would not leave the port for three years. (Mead - RCYC 1871-1949 pp.152-153)
In August 1936 a weeks racing in conjunction with the other local clubs took place. The [RCYC] Club Regatta took place on 11 August, 1936. In the Sunbeam class Caprice (Mrs. H. G. Sicklemore) was the winner, with Maranui (A. Farrant) and Merrythought (C.B. & Mrs Tracey) second and third respectively. The remainder, in order of finishing, were Judy,(1923) a visitor from the Solent, (H. G. Reynolds), Pintail, a newcomer to the fleet, built that year, (Francis Williams), Una,(Mrs Claude Lanyon), Flame (E. K. Tremayne), and Aida (H. K. Sicklemore). In the case of Una, this was her original name, which Mrs. Lanyon had adopted after the boat had been known under several different titles. The Sunbeam Amateur Cup was won in 1936 by A. Farrant.
Pintail, a newcomer to the fleet, built that year, (Francis Williams), Una,(Mrs Claude Lanyon), Flame (E. K. Tremayne), and Aida (H. K. Sicklemore). In the case of Una, this was her original name, which Mrs. Lanyon had adopted after the boat had been known under several different titles. The Sunbeam Amateur Cup was won in 1936 by A. Farrant. In 1937 (sic) [1936, see above] Mrs A. Farrant presented the club with a cup for the Sunbeam class, to be competed for by amateur helmsmen and crews during the weekly Corinthian Races, with the provision that the same helmsman should steer the same boat in at least two of the series of three races.
[ Mead, History of the RCYC 1871-1949, p.161]
In the Sunbeam class, the results of the first day's regatta racing (7 June, 1937), were: 1st Maranui (A. Farrant), 2nd Aida ( H. G. Sicklemore), 3rd Caprice (Mrs H. G. Sicklemore), 4th Pintail (Francis Williams), 5th Binaiya (1937) (C. B. & Mrs Tracey) and 6th Mabs (J. C. Annear).
On the second day, 8 June, Caprice was the winner, Maranui 2nd, Aida 3rd, Pintail 4th, Binaiya 5th, and Mabs 6th. A new addidtion to the class, Binaiya was built in 1937, while Mabs was yet another name for Una when she was purchased from Mrs Claude Lanyon by J. C. Annear.
The Sunbeam Amateur Cup in 1937 was won by Maranui (A. Farrant). [ Mead, History of the RCYC 1871-1949, pp.160-161]
1956:
In 1956 Maranui fell over during painting on the beach and killed the owner, A.C. Farrant.