Lockley Newport Boats

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Lockley Newport Boats
Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Boat building
Founded	1964
Defunct	1988
Headquarters	Newport Beach, California , United States
Products	Sailboats

Lockley Newport Boats was an American boat builder based in Newport Beach, California. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats.^[1]^[2]

The company was founded in 1964 and went though several name changes and changes of ownership prior to going out of business in 1988.^[1]

History

The company was founded as Newport Boats in 1964, building a line of sailing dinghies and small daysailers. An east coast factory was established in Gloucester, Virginia to provide boats for that market.^[1]

The company was acquired by the Browning Arms Company, a firearms manufacturer and later by Elgin International. In 1976 the company was bought by Lockley Manufacturing and was renamed Lockley Newport Boats. In 1981 the name was changed again to Gloucester Yachts. The company went out of business in 1988.^[1]

The molds for a number of the designs built by the company were later bought by Classic Yachts of Chanute, Kansas and produced, including the Gloucester 22 and the Lockley-Newport LN-23, which were built until 2000.^[3]^[4]

In a series of 2010 boat reviews Steve Henkel criticized the company's work, calling the quality of construction "so-so", noting that they were aimed at a budget market and that "the low cost is obtained partly by offering what is usually standard equipment as optional".^[2]

Boats

Summary of boats built by Newport Boats, Lockley Newport Boats and Gloucester Yachts:^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e McArthur, Bruce (2021). "Lockley Newport Boats (USA) 1964 - 1988". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, pages 172 & 230. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN 978-0-07-163652-0
^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Gloucester 22 sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
^ McArthur, Bruce (2021). "LN-23 (Lockley-Newport)". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.

v t e Lockley Newport Boats sailboats
Newport sailboats	16 20 212 214
Gloucester sailboats	15 16 17 18 18 (Whitecap) 19 20 22 23 27
Lockley Newport sailboats	16 23 27
Other sailboats	Albacore Blue Crab 11 Buccaneer 18 Bullet 14 Finn Flipper Flying Dutchman Harmony 22 Holiday 20 Kite Lightning Mobjack Pacific Catamaran Skipjack 15 Surprise 15 Whitecap 18 Windmill

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