About me

Hi I'm Tim Duncombe, founder of Duncombe Leisure,

So I used to work for Wilsons Autos in Epsom back in the 80's preparing Winnebago American motorhomes for sale and rental like the ones shown below and another I listed for a client.

My experience on the boats came when I signed up to crew Ocean Gipsy for a friend from Barcelona to the Canaries as part of the Americas cup in 1987 as logged with the RYA.

I enjoyed the voyage immensley so muc h so when I returned to the UK I bought my own boat! A 2.5 ton sloop moored at Birdham Pool and registered  with Lloyds and inspired by the then popular 80's tv show Howards Way

 I went on to work for Northshore Yacht yards near Chichester delivering yachts to customers, attending boat shows, gel coat repairs antifowling painting fitting of sprayhoods etc- Happy days indeed .

In 1989 I worked for  Chichester Caravans  before leaving for America to check out boats rvs and trailers there more pics adding soon!

I later founded my leisure company Duncombe (Leisure) in 1990 when I returned from the States having toured the west coast in my friend's camper and have sold rvs vans and boats and boat products etc since.

See photos of me back in the day at the helm, scenes from the pontoon, when working on boats taken in 1988 on 'Arctic Tern' 'Cloud Nine' and others.

Looking for boats to repair in the harbor. Shows me en route for Hayling Island on my boat with pics of the interior.Over 40 years of practical expunded by Tim Duncombe in 1990, Duncombe Leisure is built on experience gained at Wilsons Epsom, preparing ANorthshore  Yard in Chichester Harbour, working on yacht preparation, GRP repairs, customer de