Interests and Personal Life
In addition to hifi Vereker enjoyed creative engineering in many different forms, be it cars, boats, computers or lighting systems.
In particular Vereker was an enthusiast for bicycle design. He generously assisted Brompton Bicycle, a start-up company making folding bicycles, with a £40,000 guarantee for its overdraft. Also passionate about sailing, Vereker was probably at his happiest when designing boats. Working with boat manufacturer 'British Hunter', he developed a boat which he called the Windex 49. This prototype of his last venture, with a triangulated mast and a computer-controlled system of active water ballast, was launched on the day he died.
Although Vereker didn't live to see his final version of the boat completed, the manufacturer went on to produce the Hunter 50.
Vereker died from cancer on 14 January 2000, aged 54. He was twice married, and had a son and two daughters.
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