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Finally, she proved that while a ship’s pulling 
boat can be converted into a moderately ef¬ 
ficient sailing craft at no great cost, it is on 
the whole advisable to buy or build a new one, 
though even in the latter case her owner is 
not invariably satisfied. Boats have their 
idiosyncrasies, and in their construction the one 
small point you overlook often makes a vast 
difference. 
Captain Barr Dead. 
Charles Barr, skipper of Columbia, Reli¬ 
ance, Westward and other famous yachts, died 
suddenly of heart failure at Southampton last 
Tuesday. 
Charles Barr was born at Gourock, Scotland, 
on July 11, 1864. He spent his boyhood on the 
rocky coast of the sea, and there learned such 
rudiments of sailing as all boys who live by 
the water know. He was apprenticed to a 
grocery man in Greenock, and might have be¬ 
come a successful tradesman had it not been 
for his brother John, who commanded a fishing 
smack, from which he was eventually graduated 
to the command of racing yachts on British 
waters. 
This brother sailed the Thistle, which came 
across the ocean in an attempt to lift the 
America’s Cup. Hi^ example so inspired 
Charles that in spite of the family opposition 
he quit the grocery business and went before 
the mast in a flounder trawler, where he spent 
two years fishing and met with many of the 
hazardous experiences common to life on these 
small boats. Toward the end of the season he 
is said to have saved a ship and her crew by an 
exercise of the courage and judgment which 
afterward made him famous. It was not long 
before his natural skill and born power of com¬ 
mand won him recognition and the captaincy 
of a vessel. 
He brought the 20-ton Clara Across the At¬ 
lantic, the trip lasting nearly forty days, and 
sailed her in numerous races on this side of the 
water. On his return to Scotland he was given 
the command of the famous Fairlie 40-footer 
Minerva and sailed her to America in twenty- 
eight days through a dangerous succession of 
storms that again proved his resource in time 
of danger. Barr was skipper of the Minerva 
for three years and while sailing her made his 
reputation as a racing commander, defeating 
the crack yachts of the day one by one. 
His_ percentage of victorious races with this 
boat is perhaps the highest in American yacht¬ 
ing annals. Following the Minerva he com¬ 
manded in turn the Oweene and the Wasp. 
Next he was mate for his brother, John Baru 
on the Thistle. This was his first experience 
in races for the America’s Cup and taught him 
much that afterward proved of value to him 
He was commissioned by George Gould to saii 
the Vigilant in her trial races against the De¬ 
fender, and his handling of her was so masterly 
that many believed he should have had the 
chance to command the American defender in 
the final test against the Valkyrie III. This 
showing procured for him the position of ship- 
per on the Columbia when Sir Thomas Lipton 
mallenged with the first Shamrock. 
He successfully defended the cup for the third 
:ime with the Reliance. Later he won a score 
of notable victories abroad with Commodore 
riant s Ingomar. Only last June he won at 
Riel with Alexander Smith Cochran’s steel 
pacing schooner, Westward, and on Aug. 3 at 
-.owes he won the German Emperor’s Cup with 
he same boat. 
fitted with diving apparatus and rigging for 
dredging and recovering lost treasure. Mr. 
Lloyd last year owned the schooner Shiyessa 
and took part in the Bermuda race. It is his in¬ 
tention to take part in this year’s race with his 
new yacht, but in the meantime he and some 
friends are enjoying a long cruise on Southern 
seas. With him are Vice-Commodore John B. 
Fallon, of the Corinthian (Marblehead) Y C , 
and Arthur Coombs, and later Beals C. Wright 
and W. B. Lloyd, brother of the owner, are to 
join the party. 
The yacht sailed for Puerto Rico, and after 
leaving there, the Seneca will cruise through 
the Lesser Antilles, making about half a dozen 
stops before reaching La Guayra. Then the 
yacht will touch at Curacao, Kingston and 
Santiago. Coming home stops will be made 
at Havana and Nassau. This cruise will last 
until next May, when the yacht will arrive home 
and fit out at once for the race. 
Seneca is 95 feet over all, 68 feet on the 
waterline. 20 feet 5 inches beam and 10 feet 
draft. She was built from designs by Cary 
Smith and built by Poillon in igoi. 
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Cruise of the Seneca. 
It seems strange that whenever a yachts- 
nan fits out a sailing craft or an auxiliary for 
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, 0 sailed aw ay from this port last week, 
■eneca was fitted out for the cruise in South 
srooklyn, and some reports told how she was 
Probably the youngest handler of racing 
yachts on the New England coast is Cornelius 
Ayer Wood, the sixteen-year-old son of Will- 
iam M. Wood, president of the American 
Woolen Company. He is a member of the 
New Bedford Y. C., while his father is a mem¬ 
ber of the Eastern, Corinthian, New Bedford 
and New York yacht clubs. Cornelius Wood 
according to the Boston Herald, owns three 
boats the Little Rhody II., a knockabout with 
a winning record second to none of, her type; 
the Irene, a fast auxiliary centreboard, and the 
Osprey, a fast and able catboat. It is’said that 
Master Wood is negotiating with a well known 
Boston yacht designer for a new Sonder boat 
and will probably race her at Marblehead and 
vicinity. 
. Master Wood is not a fresh water sailor; he 
likes the deep water and a long trip with a 
spanking breeze is his delight. He has taken 
the Litttle Rhody II. round the cape to New 
\'ork and on other trips which required seafar¬ 
ing skill. During- the summer months the 
youngster passes his time racing at Marble¬ 
head and New York, cruising along the New 
England coast and among the islands of Maine, 
alternating with short trips on which his father' 
who is also an enthusiastic yachtsman, or other 
members of his family, accompany him. The 
Little Rhody is moored during the season off 
the North Shore at Pride’s Crossing, the sum¬ 
mer home of President Wood and family. Dur¬ 
ing the remaining months of the year the young- 
sailing master attends the Middlesex prepara¬ 
tory school at Concord. 
This young yachtsman is very proud of his 
boats, but in particular of the Little Rhody II., 
for she has a long record of wins to her credit 
and has captured places against boats of a 
much larger class, as in the Boston Y. C. 
races last year, when she got fourth place 
against class P boats or 31-raters, the Rhody 
being a class Q boat or 25-rater, a very credit¬ 
able performance against such boats as the 
Amoret, a class P boat, 53 feet over all, while 
the Little Rhody II. is but 38 feet. 
The record of the Little Rhody II. is ten 
firsts and seven second prizes out of 33 starts 
in 1907, the year she was built; while in 1908 
she captured the Jamestown Exposition cup. 
In 1909 she sailed in the Corinthian mid-sum¬ 
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three. Last year she got second place in the 
Gloucester Y. C. race, fourth in the Boston 
Y. C. events against class P boats, or 31- 
raters, and second place in the Eastern Y. C 
open regatta. 
This year the Little Rhody II. won two out 
of three races in the Corinthian Y. C. mid¬ 
summer series, which gained for her the award 
of the cup.. She also won four races for the 
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