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As we have said, the saloon is just 12ft long, but is still a comfortable living room. The entrance is on the grand scale, a Fernwood speciality. The company reasons that when you are inside you spend most of your time with the doors closed, but the normal layout produces the railway carriage effect, with its parallel sides, and square ends. Instead they have introduced a sweeping curved flight of steps, which give the saloon a cosy rounded feel. |
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Two swivelling leather armchairs are set either side of a circular drop-down table to port, and face a Stovax multi-fuel stove. This has an attractive matt-finish, who's colour matches the granite plinth it is set on. We liked the heat-shield behind the chimney, which protects the woodwork from scorching or burning. The low-level central heating radiators are also painted to match the stove and the armchairs.
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Joinery in the saloon and throughout the boat is in honey ash panels, with oak frames and elm trim. The floors are in solid oak, 19mm thick, with mahogany pinstripes. The cabin sides are panelled, while the hull sides are vertical T&G. The ceilings are panelled, with lowered sections in the saloon, again to break up the railway carriage effect.
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