Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-20
EVENING STAR.
The Cost of Yachts.

r.is estimated by yachtSmcn of prominence
srd e1UeTience that the pleasure-yachts of the
M York CIGb alone must have cost nearly
5000. Gee, while the fleets OF the whole country
cost about - .otJ go. The yachts OF the Brook
In club cost $50 00o Atlantic. 500 coo; and all
others in New York hav about $500 Ono The
Eastern club Of Boston harboT is verv wealthy.
owning yachts valued at 300, 900. The best
class OF these vessels cannot be built and equip
ped for les than $50 ION, or about 5000 for
a SlCOp OF - tons. the smallest craft which can
be constructed with due regard to comfort and
convenience in a cruise. Yacht-buiiiers de-
clare that a rocmy cabin, large enough to ac
commOdate the average grown person, cannot
be attained in vessels of smaller tonnage. A
crew OF i've men Is necessary TO man such
yacht, and these cost daring the summer cruise
of four months, at least $50 a month. 1t is nee
esSary to employ Cne of the crew as steward
during the whole year, in order that the yacht
may be taken care of. The expenses for food
are 10 be added to all this, so that the amuse-
ment is dearly bought. But as the yacht at the
original outlay will accommodate say from
seven 20 ten guests, the cost does not compare
unfavOrahly with expenses at a crowded hotel
At the springs or sea side. and the accommOda-
tons of The yachts are immeaSurably superior
10 those OF the hotel in the season.
These figures give only indistinct idea of
the cost OF larger yachts. The famous Henri
eta was sold, after her triumph in 1866, when
quite an old vessel, having seen rough service
In the civil war. for $4,000. Her former owner,
james Gordon Bennett. jr., Immediately 10 light
the Fleetwing, one of the vessels which he had
beaten in the famous deai-Of- winter ocean race,
for S65o00. and rechristened her the DauntleSs.
1t was this magnificent vessel which was beaten
IN the ocean race of 1870 BY the English-built
Cambria, which was sold the same year for
$50 COO The ResOute Of Mr. A. s. Hatch, the
smallest and one of the most elegant of the
sChoOner-vachts of the New York Club, be-
ing one hundred and ten tons burden, cost
$50. OO0-but she was built in war times. The
largest schOOner-yacht in the country, the
SapphO OF MIR. Douglass, cost much less
thar this, prOpOrtiOnately. Yachts built In the
excellent staunch style OF these endure for many
years. They may grow ont of fashion, or may
be CNcelled by new models, for the art of yacht
building improves with each year, but they
never rot it cared for. The English yacht Pearl,
built in 1915 by the Marquis of Anglesea, has
outlived her famous master and all his family
except one son, Lord Alfred Paget. This young
nObleman, inheriting the taste OF his father
(whO, in spite OF his great qualities a cavalry
man, was. 10 use his own expression, " the most
Thoroughbred yachtsman in England,") has
lately abandoned his old love for a new steam
yacht, and the Pearl lies rotting in ordinary.
There are several very old yachts in the Ameri-
can feet, the America itself having now at
tained a generation of years without losing any
part of the vigOr of youth.-W. +. G.. ShdRlS, az
ScTibHer'S for August.