by Don Rodney
LOA 18' 11/2", BEAM 7' 31/2, DRAFT 0' 103/4"
A three-berth outboard cruiser for family cruising.
The oft-repeated phrase, “Two is company, three is a crowd,” certainly applies nowhere better than when an attempt is made to sleep three or more persons on an outboard cruiser with the customary two, fore-and-aft arranged, bunks. Of course, a third person can bed himself down on some life-preserver cushions and a blanket in the gangway between the two berths or in the cockpit, but such an arrangement is definitely third-rate, about like trying to ride three on a bicycle built for two. Now, if sleeping is bad under the above-mentioned conditions, the locker situation is even worse for, even under the best of conditions, the amount of locker space available on the average outboard cruiser is on the meager side indeed. It was with the thought of providing a cruiser with an extra berth for that third member, as well as to see what could be done to improve the locker situation, that we have designed Ann Louise. In providing the extra berth, we have been able to produce an elevated platform on which a seat for the helmsman may be mounted. In this design we have tried to incorporate all of the good features on the two-bunk boat as well as to profit by a few past mistakes and a lot of cruising experience which would indicate that besides an extra berth, an enlarged galley, extra drawer and locker space, andan enclosed head woul be highly desirable.
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