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DISTINCTIVE FEATURE
THE MERCURY CRUISER
CHAIN
LOCKER
STABILITY
DRAWER
LOCKER
LOCKER UNDER
A 3" oak keel is carried well aft and scarphed to a proper oak stem backed by grown oak deadwoods,
LOCKER
which are through bolted to each other by means of copper bolts. The specific advantage of this
keel is that it enables the boat to take the ground without damage to propeller or shafting.
EXTRACT FROM THE
YACHTING WORLD
SAFETY
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DATED 6th DEC., 1938
The hull planking is through fastened with copper nails properly clenched (or riveted) on copper
SEAT
SALOON
GALLEY
WATERMOTA ENGINE
NEW 24-FOOTER WITH
cupped rooves (or washers), a detail which should not be overlooked when purchasing a boat.
COCKPIT
MOTOR CASE
TOILET
F ROM the yard of Kris
COMFORT
Cruisers, Ltd., of
Road, Isleworth, many Ferry
The large cockpit is made particularly comfortable by a leatherette cushion seat and padded back,
24' x 7' 6" x2" 6".
each motor cruisers are launched small
which is arranged athwart ships at the aft end, underneath which is a locker forming an extra store
go type down that the appeals estuary to the man who wants to spend some of his built little craft of are well-
year. They
for spare petrol cans, ropes, fenders, etc., thus keeping the cockpit completely free for use, should
conditions The latest are favourable. boat completed or round the coast sometimes when time week-ends is available on the and river, when but weather just likes the to
you wish to have a meal in the open air (provision having been made for accommodating the table).
The feature of the saloon is that it is very light and well ventilated by six large opening windows,
frames 10-32 h.p. and four-cylinder American elm Watermota timbers, is the with engine 24-footer mahogany shown fittings, here. cabin She sides is planked and with pitch pine on oak
together with a sliding hatch over the galley, which makes the cooking very much more pleasant.
marine Equipment Ford conversion is liberal, is preferred the cost installed rises to £425. the price is only £395, cockpit or if a trim." 24 h.p. With Kris a
CONVENIENCE
followed and as Vi-spring adequate by a settee well-laid-out berths in considering cabin the comfortable with excellent the very little head moderate cabin. Right price. forward It even is a includes properly such fitted refinements
The reverse lever, together with the throttle control, is brought up close to the helmsman, and makes
the boat very easy to handle in congested traffic or when passing through locks. As usual, a
From a practical cooking point facilities. The engine is under room, a low plenty casing of light at the from main the big cabin side entrance. lavatory, windows
K.C. Silencer is fitted, which eliminates an unpleasant noisy exhaust, thus enabling one to talk freely
of view the cockpit is just
without having to raise the voice.
the right size. It is big
enough for quite a large
day party, and, while it is
deep enough for safety at
PROTECTION
sea, one does not sit in it
so low as to lose good visi-
The engine is efficiently housed under a watertight mahogany casing. The petrol tank is fitted aft
bility. Another good point,
in such a manner that the copper vent pipe is outside and not inside the vessel, and so minimising
really have experience
showing that the designers
the risk of fire. Any overflow of petrol, when filling, cannot run into the bilges. A Junior Pyrene
Fire Extinguisher is also installed.
small-boat fore cruising, is the of
trunk hatch set in the raised
little deck. An excellent low
fore and not in the
ACCOMMODATION
ted be examined and
can boat, in fact, which
Besides the two comfortable berths in the saloon, it is possible to sleep two more persons on
and in a really critical tes-
improvised mattresses in the cockpit with every comfort, under a specially designed awning which
will emerge with credit. spirit
completely envelopes the whole of the cockpit. (An extra charge of £15 is made for the awning
and necessary equipment.)
[By kind permission of THE MOTOR BOAT.)
difficulties that there was were a bit the of morning a breeze of and the a 31st little May, popple which lee side made on
it
the
of
on
very the other difficult side during to the embark previous troops, night except the used. water on was so smooth
the that ship, it did not matter which side was
(4) It is quite clear, the from Navy the collected time at which the small I was
boats first warned by way for of inte duty, lligent that anticipation, many of us were