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Lanyon, Mrs Claude
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.
Solaire was the new name given to Speedwell by Mrs Lanyon when she bought this boat from R. Foster.
(Mead - RCYC 1871-1949 pp.152-153)
1936: 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) amd Merrythought (C.B. & Mrs Tracey) second and third respectively. The remainder, in order of finishing, were Judy, 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.
1937: In the Sunbeam class, the results of the first day's 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]