From Norm Blanchard's memoires in "Knee Deep in Shavings":

Captain Griffiths himself seemed to be only interested in power boats. He had a little boat, around 35 feet, that he called the Sueja, based on his wife’s combined names, and I think he owned that boat before World War I. He kept her moored over at the Seattle Yacht Club in West Seattle. The only name I can recall ever having seen on her transom, though, was Griffnip. This was because after Captain Griffiths had a larger yacht built for himself in 1919 he wanted to name her Sueja, too, without the Roman numerals. So he changed the name of his 35-foot boat to Griffnip and that way he was able to avoid using the Roman numeral on his new yacht. If you look carefully at the famous launching photo of the Sueja II out at Ballard Beach, you can easily see her name on the transom is just Sueja, although she was always thought of as the Sueja II.

The Sueja II was lightly built; not quite as light as Geary designed them later, but she could keep up a cruising speed of 15 knots with her pair of big eight-cylinder Speedway engines. Captain Griffiths kept a full-time engineer and full-time cook onboard. Frequently he would leave his office around 3:00 or 3:30 on a Friday afternoon, or any afternoon for that matter, and start out through the locks on the Sueja II and run all night to his regular mooring at Coal Harbour in Vancouver at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. That practice continued throughout the early 1920’s.