PRINCIPIA
Designed by L.E. “Ted” Geary, Principia is one of four identical hulls started on spec by Lake Union Drydock in 1928 just prior to the great depression. The boat was finished out for Le Roy Macomber, a Lawyer and Financier from Seattle. Macomber and his wife Marion bought Hardy Island (mouth of Jervis Inlet) in 1930 for $10,000, and the boat was moored there every summer until the US Military took over the boat in WWII.
Principia is the only one of the four hulls to be completed with a single screw, original power was a 250 HP 6-cylinder Atlas-Imperial diesel giving 10 knots cruising speed and 12 knots top. This has been replaced with a 250 HP Caterpillar D343.
She’s 96′ overall with a 88’6″ designed waterline, beam is 18’6″ and designed draft 8’0″. These are voluminous hulls, 115 Gross Tons Register. Also of very rugged construction, none of these four hulls, now approaching 100 years of age, show any sign of hogging. And from the photo below we see that Principia has had some abuse. I believe the boat has recently relocated to home port in Newport RI.
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