Frederick Slee in Lake Erie

As noted in his obituary in the Buffalo Evening News, Frederick Slee was an avid sailor. One surviving document of this avocation is a typescript log of a sailing trip made by Slee, George T. Moseley, and Louis Wright Simpson July 11-August 1, 1914. The logbook is illustrated with thirty snapshot photographs. Mr. Slee and his companions left the Buffalo Yacht Club, beginning their trip on Lake Erie. The second day they traveled through the Welland Canal to Lake Ontario. Most of their time was spent sailing the northern shoreline of Lake Ontario. Many of the photographs show life aboard the Althea: hoisting the sails, cleaning up after cooking, and taking turns at the helm. The first world news the men saw after twenty-one carefree days was the newspaper headline, "Germany Declares War", the beginning of World War I.

The entire logbook can be viewed online at UBdigit.