New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
WHAT YACHEOWNERS ARE DOING.
BOATS GETTING IN coMMIssIoN-NoTES FROM
EVERYWHERE.

BoATs GETTING IN COMM MISsIoN-NoTES FROM
EVERYWHERE.
That wonderful boat the Deerhound carried off the
honor, and the spoils at the for the Prix de la
Mcdtcrranee this year as usual. Some fine spring a
Yankee boat will 60 down there and astonish tho
natives They do things queerly In the Mediterranean
races not seeming to be quite able TO dferenate De-
tween a horse and yacht race The race Tor the
prix is sailed In heats and three four yachts must
start in each heat or the judges say No race
wear ago the owner of the Deerhound had 10 pay the
foreign yachts entered against him So apiece to go
over tho course so 10 make q race. This Is yacht
racing as understood In the Mediterranean, but
as the Latns enjoy this sort OF thing ana the English
walk of with the loaves and fishes everybody Is
sat, SIZED.
The Emperor of Germany, having bought that un-
successful hunter for the Americas Cup, the Thistle
has changed her name to Meteor and sent her to the
Baltic on which sea His Majesty will take his pleasure
in her. In August the Emperor Will race her IN the
Cowes regatta The last Imperial person who went
yachracng in the Baltic was the Emperor Nicholas OIL
Russia who raced his yacht Yaluo against some British
yachts in 1852 and was badly beaten. The Emperor
william Is said 10 have paid 800 900 for the Thistle.
W. H. Vanderbilts 46footer will not be
mt in commission this year, her owner has decided
TO 20 10 Europe. This will be disappointment. a' u
great deal was expected Of her, she Is thought by
experts who have her TO be In the first rank OF
tho uew A6footers. A Boston designer who was on
hare last week to look at the 46fOOter building for
porer, Maxwell at Wntringham's yard, Bay Ridge,
eno,e in tbe highest terms OF her, lie said: have
.n all The new 4Gfooters and believe she Is ms good
as any Of them, The new boat will be called the
Nautilus and II she succeeds against all the ;aen'
of burgess Paine Fife and Others. when has beer
lovlshed on the new feet OF 1Bf0oterS 1t VIII be
feather in the cap Of Mr. Wintringham
The steam yacht feet Is beginning to go in com
mission The Catarlna, which has been bought by
Ioseph Pulitzer Is about ready, and viii to
France and take her owner aboard Mr.. Flagler will
not put the Alicia in commission until June /. She
was new last year and IS remarkable for the elegance
of her fittings j. Perpont Morgans new steam yacht,
which has been for some time building IN PhIladepha
expected shortly TO appear here She Is from designs by
J. b. Webb. II is rumored that H. VI. Flasler lhtendS
to go around the world in the Alicia W. W: Dalants
new steam Yacht Utowana Is rapidly nearing com
The schooner Corone is again for sale One of the
best schooners ever built IL seems 70 O9 S nSr S o
built her, founc tGat he did not want her sller sue
was finished and offered her for sale ater her iaee
across the ocean against the Daunuess, aulik 70
his death. Her last OHner was a. r.. batsman' "Ao
Ioacht her Just before his financial troubles
They arc going 10 have u lively yachtins s.dsUn ,hn
upon the lakes The PapOOse has been sent up there
Through the canals and will the Fanch0n ana
the Merle, both fast boats The Fanchon, on ioodo'
now holds the championship OF the Lakes having Eade
in fresh water The Merle Is the flagship Of me
Buffalo Yacht Clnh and Is owned by +. u. no"eT'
who recently bOug-. her from her Toronto ONnef..
TWO twenty FIVE footers ore building for racing
from designs By Gardiner The twenty .hve i9e'ers rs
will be popular. The Iota, Of this class, built ~