Haslar Marina

When you relax on your boat after a good day of sailing, you can reflect on the highs and lows of the day, or you can go back in time and wonder how your marina was created. John Dean and Richard Reddyhoff have been involved in building marinas for years. Through Dean and Dyball Ltd, they started with Shamrock Quay in Southampton in 1980, did a lot in Southampton’s Ocean Village, built a tourist resort in Hythe in 1985, in the New Forest, built two marinas in Plymouth and a large shipyard along the Dart River. They founded Dean & Reddyhoff Ltd and opened Haslar in 1993, then built Weymouth Marina, rebuilt East Cowes Marina and, in 2008, began building Portland Marina, which returned to the Olympic Games in 2012. The fun thing is to become big noisy machines to dig mud or build huge breakwaters, but first you have to do tedious things, like getting planning permission, ordering legal agreements, borrowing money from bankers and paying for them. On-time loans: all achieved as planned, we have the original froc packages to prove it. Right inside the ports of Portsmouth, we are perfectly positioned for historic ships, modern stores, open waters and the Isle of Wight.