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February 18, 2008

Newton Ancarrow’s beautiful boats

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Known now for the fishing and as one end of the Manchester Slave Trail, Ancarrow’s Landing takes its name as the former site of Newton Ancarrow’s old speedboat-manufacturing factory.


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The founding of Ancarrow Marine is surrounded in lore that suits the the beauty of the fast&expensive machines themselves:

Popular boating said he wanted to buy a fast boat, and for the seller to guarantee it’s speed. When no guarantees were made to back up the sellers boasts, it was recommended to Newton that he should build one himself if he thought he could do any better. He decided to show them up and did just that.

Ancarrow’s later influential efforts as a pioneering environmental activist are described in Ann Woodlief’s In River Time – The Way of the James and in Harry Kollatz’ True Richmond Stories.

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Posted by john m at 9:45AM under history | Tags: ,

3 Responses to “Newton Ancarrow’s beautiful boats”

  1. posted by Doug Milne at July 18, 2008 4:13 pm [#]:

    I just came across this feb 18th 2008 page of your paper decribing Ancarrow boat. I am in the process of restoring one of these boats, maybe the one the picture. I would be interested in sharing information or learning more about Ancarrow. The boat is 50 years old this year and should really be back in Va, I am in Ottawa Canada

  2. posted by john m at July 18, 2008 4:24 pm [#]:

    Doug, your boats look awesome! The bit above is all that I could scrape together about Ancarrow Marine, though there are later stories about Newton Ancarrow as a pioneering environmentalist in Richmond.

  3. posted by Scott Lamons at August 11, 2008 11:19 am [#]:

    Please tell me if I am in the right direction. I have a 1971 Centurian boat that I have been trying to find info on. This name came up after a lot of searching. Is this company related to the manufacturing of the centurian in 1971?


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