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Category: PRISCILLA
On February 26, a design by A. Cary Smith, and designs and models by others were shown at the meeting of the New York Yacht Club and Mr. Smith's design was adopted. On March 9 a meeting of the America's Cup Committee was held for a final decision on the type of the defender.
The contract for the Bennett-Douglass yacht was given to Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware, builders of Mischief, ...
... calling for completion of the hull in sixty days; the spars were ordered from Poillon Brothers, the rigging from Phillip Low, and the sails from Wilson & Griffin.
The leading dimensions of Priscilla proved to be: l.o.a., 95 feet; l.w.l., 35 feet,; breadth, 22 feet 7 inches; depth, 9 feet; draft, 7 feet 9 inches. As became known later, she was flush-plated with ⅜-inch iron, her frames were angles 3½ by 2½ spaced 21 inches, her centerboard was of yellow pine banded with iron straps, 21 feet long and 4 inches thick, the trunk was 25 feet long and 7 inches wide, of 5/16 iron, with half-round iron as guards on the inside. Her bulwarks were 15 inches high, with a rail 5 by 3½ inches.
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