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OBITUARY George Gould
01 Jul 2005
His career in the leisure marine business stretched back well over four decades when he and his business partner Paul Tidman started a boat building company called Skimcraft which soon evolved into Reading Marine Services and became the largest Fairline dealer in the UK by the early 80s.
Gould sold the business to his partner in 1987 with the birth of George Gould Marine and the introduction onto the UK market of a little known brand at that time called Cranchi. He has been overseeing its evolution ever since.
A dedicated family man, Gould still managed to find time to seek the Loch Ness Monster in Operation Deep Scan 1987, fish for Salmon in Russia, climb Mount Kilimanjaro and indulge in hair-brained stunts at Little Venice canal basin, involving waterskiing through rings of fire with Trevor Baylis, his life long friend who became famous for inventing the 'wind up portable radio'.
Above all, his love of deep sea fishing and scuba diving completed the character who was, uniquely, George Gould.
He leaves his wife Gill and three children Stuart, Warwick and Kirsten.
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