JENAL Lounge/Saloon - Full size room with sofas, entertainment & library

The lounge now houses a two seater comfortable sofa and still offers ample space to move around as well as traverse through to the master bedroom.

A period cast-iron Esse fire sits on the portside between the Biedermeier inspired cabinetry. Originally coal-fired, it is now a convectional electric heater with a cheery coal-effect window. JENAL is insulated throughout with 3M's Thinsulate.

Whilst the Thinsulate keeps the cold and excesses of heat out of JENAL's interior, humidity in hotter climates is a different issue and here we turned to Webasto and their excellent air conditioning system. Designed to heat or cool the occupants with an 18 - 31C degree of easy adjustment, just like modern A/C equipped cars. It also eliminates problematic condensation that may try to linger!

We have fitted cabinets only on the portside in the lounge area forgoing them on the starboard side to aid the spacious feel to this room. Further low cabinets & at the end of the saloon there is a full width bookcase.

The entertainment centre is partly concealed in the portside cabinet corner area, designed not to visually over-power but give us our on-board sounds & visions when needed.

Below this floor area are the 2 main fuel (6,500ltr) and fresh water tank (4,000ltr). A 2 step down to the master bedroom level indicates where the tanks end. The superstructure roof also steps down at this point to maintain a low superstructure profile and maintain the classic Dutch barge appearance.


Because both the lounge and the kitchen share the same adjoining area, they benefit from feeling particularly spacious. Like the kitchen, there are overhead skylights called 'pigeon-boxes' (so-called in period-barge language) and they flood these areas with extra daylight rather than relying on an all-windows area down each side of the barge... this would be stylistically un-characteristic in a Klipper design.