Letter to Fitzgerald & Lee, Inc. from H. F. MacKendrick, M.D.
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Letter to Fitzgerald & Lee, Inc. from H. F. MacKendrick, M.D.Entry/Object ID
2022.16.8517Scope and Content
Letter to Fitzgerald & Lee, Inc. from H. F. MacKendrick Transcription: Galt, Ontario June 19, 1937 My dear Fitzgerald Yours of 16th to hand and glad to note you have a prospect. She was built late in 1935, is 39'10" long by 12'4" beam and draws 3' water. She is built of Canadian cedar and oak ribs and is very soundly built as I was there during the process. lay-out--in the bow is a 40 gallon copper fresh water tank piped to galley. Above this tank is a rope locker with hawse hole in which anchor rope is stored. then there a bulkhead and aft of this birth athwartship with beauty rest mattress and cupboard-crews quarters with latch to get in. Aft of this is a bulkhead watertight. then 2. 6'3" high clothes [page 2] lockers with metal lace ventilation doors & between there's a mahogany dresser 5 drawers, mirror &the 2 good berths with springs & 8" deep and plate beauty rest mattresses, then a bulkhead with [pontier?] instead of door, then on starboard a toilet room, bowl basins & medicine cabinet with bevel mirror, on port side a galley with chromium sink, gasoline stove, and dishracks all enclosed, a good steel refrigerator, up 3 steps into deck house 4 1/2" square, with 3 windows & 1 door on each side, windows auto type & all screened with copper screens, mahogany frames, 2 leather cushioned seats one on the side of door leading into aft cabins, interior all mahogany wide chart board, chromium plated binnacle in front of steering wheel, below is motor 8 cylinder 8 Gray Marine new last year, with an extra generator [page 3] for lights, ample room to get toward the motor engine room painted aluminum, ship clock on chart board, steering wheel type. Aft cabin is very airy and high ceiling finished in natural spruce, in aft cabin 2 dressers, 2 clothes closets & 2 berths & 3 auto windows on each side & screens, aft of this is the aft cockpit all mahogany with a long seat at back, 8 foot long lockers underneath for ropes & lockers at both sides, flag pole and flag with light on top, In deck house there are lockers entire length in which are stowed table chairs, life preservers, fire extinguisher &c. there are 2 Yachtsman anchors each [page 4] with 125 ft rope and all ropes for tying up. everything is in good condition--excellent & I think you remember how comfortable a boat she was. I will get a photo of her and send it on to you as soon as possible or I could arrange to meet him in Hamilton which would be more satisfactory probably. I am asking $4000 for her. Of course you know it cost me a lot more than that , but I find it unhandy to go 28 miles to get to [page 5] her and I am getting too old to bother with her except the month I go on holiday. I always take August & expect to see you there if I don't sell her in the meantime. She is a beautiful sea boat and exceedingly comfortable & is as well built as a boat could be. Thanking you for your interest I am yours very truly she cruises about 12 miles per hour & I get 4 miles to the gallon [signed] HF MacKendrick M.D.Collection
Fitzgerald & Lee Collection of the Cornwall Brothers Store MuseumCategory
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