Motor Boat & Yachting

FLEUR DE LYS

BUILT 1966 PRICE £63,000

WILD CARD

Civil engineer J. E. Dagless was a keen motor cruising man who, in the late 1950s, felt that there was a gap in the market for a seaworthy 50ft cruiser. He in 1959, so he started production of Fleur De Lys cruisers, naming them after a town in France he’d visited. The first was a 52, but he created a range up to 95ft, building them eight at a time in a modern factory in Cambridgeshire.

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