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Southern Cross 31 Long Distance Cruiser by Ryder "MARCONI CUTTER"	Check out the website for the Southern Cross Owners Association
The Southern Cross 31 is an ocean-going dream machine designed for offshore cruising.
A powerful world cruiser from the board of Thomas Gillmer, designer of the first fiberglass boat to sail 'round the world. Built by one of New England's most experienced molders of fiberglass yachts. The Southern Cross 31 might best be described as a double-ended ocean cruising cutter of moderate beam, moderate draft, moderate-to-heavy displacement, and moderate sail area. She has a pronounced concave sheer, moderately cut away forefoot, and outboard rudder. To many she would embody the ideal ocean cruising hull form. With a 22 horsepower diesel to push just short of seven tons, the Southern Cross 31 is very adequately powered. The fuel capacity of 34 gallons will probably give about 65 hours of powering at five knots, for a range of about 325 miles under power. This provides very adequate cruising range under power without the need to carry extra fuel in cans in the cockpit.

Southern Cross' Sail Emblem is an anchor cross, a symbol of Christ carried over from the days of persecution before Constantine.

While early Christians saw in this cross a hope "sure and steadfast" (HEB 6:19), persecutors saw nothing but an anchor. At the C. E. Ryder Corporation, they thought the symbol especially fitting because it speaks of hope and salvation in the midst of howling winds on a perilous sea.