Built for family pleasure boating, Jonik is a motor launch built in Fowey in 1934. Its first owner instructed the builder, Percy Clemens, to use the best quality timber available.
Jonik is built using silver spruce planking with a teak deck and demonstrates excellent craftsmanship. There were no power tools used in its construction, and the shed it was built in had no electric lighting. It was originally powered by a Thorneycroft Handybilly petrol engine, which is now in the Science Museum in London: the current engine is a Bukh diesel.
Jonik was donated to the Museum by the family of the original owner, together with an endowment in order to ensure that it would remain in the best possible condition. The decision was taken to continue using the boat on the water as part of the Museum’s ‘wet boat’ collection, so full annual repair and maintenance programmes are carried out during the autumn and winter when the boat is ashore.
Dimensions:
Length 7.3m
Beam 2.25m
Draft 0.62m
