i^EB. 6, 1904.1 
PRINCESS 30-FOOTER LINES AND CONSTRUCTION PLAN- — DESIGNED BY B. B. CROWNINSHIELD FOR GEORGE WRIGHT. 
Interlakc Yachting Letter. 
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 30. — The little i6ft. restricted 
class is catching on in a remarkable way, and the pros- 
pects are, that at least a half dozen boats will be built 
in tihie for next season's use in Detroit. Rear Com. 
E. F. Floyd has ordered a design from Mr. Carlton 
Wilby, a young designer that has recently located at 
Detroit, and she will be built right up to the limit of 
her class. The preliminary lines have been turned out, 
are corrected, and the final drawings will be completed 
this week. Com. Lloyd is negotiating with two De- 
troit builders, and an Eastern firm, but has not decided 
just where he will have her built, but it is probable 
she will be constructed in the East. Several Cleveland 
yachtsmen have taken kindly to the idea, and it looks 
as if three would be built here. Mr. James Kenedy 
is considering a design, and is very favorably impressed 
with it. Mr. Kenedy has been a power boat man, but 
is so taken with the idea, that he has about made up 
his mind to desert the power boat for one of the little 
restricted boats. 
Obtaining crews has been a detrimental feature to 
yachting hereabouts, but these little single banders, 
seerti to supply a long felt want, and will in all proba- 
bility become exceedingly popular before the summer 
■ \s half over. Mr. Summer, of this city, has ordered a 
design from Chicago for a i6-footer, and she will 
be built by Cook. The i8-footer building for Mr. 
Watterson is about completed, and is a neat appearing 
craft. She is rather more conservative than the aver- 
age racing boat, having quite moderate overhangs. 
Her bow is finely drawn out, giving her an easy en- 
trance, and she has a nice run aft. Judging from ap- 
pearances, she ought to be reasonably fast. She will 
carry an enormous jib and mainsail rig, having 650 sq. 
ft. in -the two pieces. The yawl building for Dr. N. 
W. Brawn, has been finished, and is a credit to her 
— 4)Hil<kr-,--Mr. Fred Piatt. She is a typical cruising 
boat, and for her over all length, has remarkable 
amount of room, both above and below decks. She 
will be launched the first of April, and after being 
fitted out, will be taken to the head of the lakes, thence 
to St. Louis, where her owner will rtemain several 
weeks, and then return to Cleveland. Mr. James Mar- 
shall, of Toledo, is building a 21-footer with which 
he intends to capture the Walker Cup^ at Detroit, next 
summer; he also intends shipping her to Chicago to 
enter her in the races for the Sir Thomas Lipton 
trophy. An i8-footer is being biiilt for Mr. Benis, of 
Erie, from a design by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield, of 
Boston. She is to -be up to the limit of the class, and 
wiir be sailed in the races of the Inter Lake Yachting 
Association, and will also compete for the Huntington 
trophy No. 4. • 
Buffalo has the building fever in earnest, and per- 
haps more boats are building in that city than at any. 
of the other lake ports. A big yawl is to be built for 
Mr. Summer Hayward, designed by Crowninshield, a 
30ft. cruising ya:wl for. Mr. Hussey, designed ■ by W. 
H. Hand, Jr.; and a 15ft. one-design class by the same 
designer, of which four boats were originally to have 
been built. This number has been increased to nine, 
or more than double: the amount of the original order. 
A gentleman, whose name is withheld for the present, 
is having a 21-footer designed in the East, where she 
will also be built, and the order calls for, her com- 
pletion by April 15.;. In a. letter! received yesterday, he 
stated that the new boat would :be.. as extreme, as the 
law governing the- construction jof . the restricted 2ift. 
class allows. It has, practically been- decided to have 
her canvas made by Messrs Cousens ; and Pratt, of 
Boston. Another- boat -for" the : same class is being 
built by one of the Buffalo builders, but has not been 
sold. Her builder and- designer is. a peculiar old salt. 
Each winter he selects some -particular class, one he 
thinks likely to be mo.st popular, gets out his design, 
and sets to work. When his. task is completed, he 
looks around for a buyer, ^ind invariably finds one. 
The remarkable part of this story is that in most. cases 
he has turned out the sp,eedie.st boats in, the Buffalo 
Y. C-, in their respective classes, The-Hussar 11, recently 
purchased from Mr. Gfeo. H. McNeely, of Philadelphia, 
by Com. E. T. AfHeck, of Toledo, will start on' her trip 
for the lakes, on or about May i. On April 15, Com. 
Affleck's two sons, accompanied by a picked crew, will 
leave Toledo. The yacht will be brought through the 
St. Lawrence River and Welland Canal, stopping at 
all way ports on the trip. It is expected that the yacht 
will reach Toledo about June 15, after which she will 
be hauled out, and cleaned up. She will then leave 
for Put-In- Bay, to attend the annual regatta of the I. 
L. Y. A., where she will be entered in the races. 
After the regatta she will proceed up the lake with 
the commodore and his family for an extended cruise. 
The announcement of the death of Com. Henry 
Tracy, of Toledo, has been a shock to the fresh-water 
yachtsmen, and all are deeply- grieved at his sudden 
demise. Com. Tracy was one of the oldest yachtsmen 
on the lakes, and has done much for yachting. He was 
an enthusiastic yachtsman, and anything pertaining to 
the sport was sacred to him. It was primarily due 
to yachting that he met his death. Last year he was 
commodore of the Inter Lake Y. A., and when the 
time for the departure had arrived, it was blowing a 
gale. This, however, was the , comodore's delight, as 
he enjoyed nothing more than to get out in a good 
blow. It was also imperative' that he arrive at the 
Bay that night, as he was slated for a speech. To use 
the commodore's own words, ""It was a muzzier, dead 
ahead, but I could not disappoint my friends," and he 
didn't. The trip was sixty miks from Toledo, and a 
beat , all the way, , but he put her through it, and while 
an old man, never uttered a single complaint, and that 
evening, as though nothing had happened, made a 
speech to the small gathering who had weathered the 
blow. Next day, after the gale had subsided, and the 
fleet began to arrive, the old commodore was on hand 
to greet each hew arrival, and attended to the duties 
of his position as commodore. It was on the trip that 
he sustained the slight injury that ultimately resulted 
•in his death. A scratch on the fore finger turned into 
- blood poison. _ Little attention was paid to it at the 
_ time, but it failed to heal, and gradually grew worse. 
Finally the finger was amputated, but it appears that 
the poison had gone beyond the arnputation, a,nd on 
Jan. 19 he died. He was 67 years of age. A singular 
coincidence followed his sudden demise. His yacht 
