SIMPSON, STRICKLAND <fe Co., Ltd., Dartmouth & Teddington. 



Notes as to Outfit. It is impossible in view of the variety of fittings 

 required by different owners to price boats fitted completely with all the 

 fittings which are likely to be wanted. In quoting, however, we shall U> 

 very pleased to include any fittings which may be required if intending 

 purchasers will give us a list of what they want. These vary, of course, very 

 much in different Ixjats according to sizes; and as their prices also vary. \\ < 

 cannot tfive them in detail here. Among those most generally used are 

 awnings, ^latinus. cushions, anchors and chains, folding hoods, mast and 

 sail, canvas cover for engines and boiler, tricolor lamp for tunnel, oars, boat- 

 hooks, lumber crutches. If a boat is to be hoisted in davits, hoisting slings 

 will be required and possibly chocks for carrying her on deck. Steering 

 wheels are usually included in the large boats, and can be fitted to the smaller 

 ones if required. The floor may either be plain pine or may be covered with 

 linoleum or carpet, or gratings may be substituted. Where the machinery 

 is to be carried on deck of a yacht, and the launch hoisted in davits without 

 it, we make a trolley to carry it, with india-rubber tyres to the wheels, and a 

 brass tray to keep dirt off the deck. A very useful fitting is a copper conking 

 pot heated by steam from the boiler, in which water can be boiled in a few 

 minutes. Where a boat has to be used a great deal in rough water, we think 

 it desirable to fit her with waterways and coamings as shown in several of 

 the types in this list ; where rough water is only occasionally met, it is useful 

 to have canvas washcloths set up on stanchions which make the !>>at 

 exceedingly dry and comfortable, and which can be removed when not 

 required. A canvas turtleback can be set up over the forward part of 

 the boat on spreaders in the same manner. For tropical climates, it is 

 sometimes desirable to have curtains to lace down from the awning to 

 the gunwale, and permanent awnings of teak, or for commercial work 

 galvanized iron can be fitted if desired. The fitting of the cabins in the 

 boats which have them, can of course be designed in accordance with the 

 owners' tastes, as also can the fitting of the interior of the boat generally. 

 We shall be pleased to submit designs for fitting up interiors in different 

 kinds of work, fancy or otherwise, according to the style required, and the 

 amount desired to be spent. In most of the boats with cabins these can be 

 arranged to have sleeping berths at night, and seats in the day, and can if 

 desired be arranged for all the bedding to fold into a recess at the back of 

 the seats. Where expense is not an object, the whole of what is ordinarily 

 brass work in a launch, can be either "silveroid" or nickel-plated, and the 

 engine and boiler mountings nickel-plated to match. There are, however, 

 so many ways of fitting out boats that we cannot go into it all here, but 

 shall l>e pleased to discuss the matter with anyone who cares to. 



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