The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-18
COSTLY SUMMER OUTING
What II Costs Some People to Go
Yachting In q Hired
Yacht.
From $1,000 to $4,000 q Month
Tor the Extras and Inoi-
dentals.
There Are Smaller Ones and Chsapsr. but
the Best IL Good Enough Tor
Anyone.

ysYfHEN JAMES M. WATERBURY
AItV2 chartered the Nou,mAhAl, the
Sxsxo Astor yacht. he agreed 10 return
the vessel in the condition in which Il was
received. But tho Nourmahal has been in q
collision with the steamer Maine and the
little bill for repairs will be close to $1,000.
Add to this the 5000 monthly rental, the
5000 monthly expense bill, and Mr.. Wa
exceedingly high.
But tho man who willingly spent $4,000
on an amateur cir cus won't mine 1t in the
least. He will entertain his friends az Law
ishly az ever, and it inclined. charter the
yacht for another season.
No summer sport il relished with 80 much
zeal az that which an outing on the water
affords. Pass through the narrows Of New
York hArbor to the outer bay and you GROSS
the wakes of q thousand pleasure boats of
all sizes and descriptions. from the smallest
ynwi to the sloop and from the schooner to
the massive steam yacht. fitted out in the
atyle Of a palatial ocean passenger steamer.
But to note the extent OF this splendid
sport ono has but to look over the long list
OF Now York yachts built by the HERES
chof's or in the Burgess yards, or to take .
look at the magnificent proportions OF the
Wasp, tho Glorina, the Pyxie. Ell Chico. the
Hansell, the Fancy, the Hawk, all vessels Of
late designing, or at the Alva, the Con
qnsror, the Nourmshal. steam yachts that
cost all the way from $3.50. 600 to $780, Oo.
the price at which the Vanderbilt Draft, the
Alva, is held; or perhaps. to skim along the
sound on the decks of that calm water
spseder, the Norwood.
1t 10 an expensive sport; perhaps a. ex-
pensive as a stable of horses, and often as
full of bitter disapointments. had occa-
sion recently to visit one of those ship rent
ing firms and the prices quoted me meant,
in almost every instance, d neat annual in
CONS. l quote the prices and arrangements
offered me verbatim:
1--WE will charter you = forty foot steam
yacht, no staterooma--just an open boat,
month, at 5000. You furnish the fuel, we
the captain and engineer. Or We charter
you a seventy ive-f foot pleasure yacht, with
three or four state rooms for $500 a
month. We supplying the crew and you
grub it,"
and what is the expense of fuel and
grub?"
''That depends. You ought to figure on
$1,000 a month anyway for extras and inci-
dentals."
what can you charter the Alva for?"
well, I don't know that she can be
chartered. But l can get you q lOO-foOt
stsam yacht. every bit az comfortable and
enjoyable, for $4,000 a month. Your ex-
pouEes in this case would be s. 1900 a month
extra. / can charter you . schooner yacht,
complete. for 81. 200 = month, or a sloop for
$40 q day. But perhaps the wissst thing to
,rr - O,nrA = aAAuONSu a~~rt - k@ br- -
steam yacht . schooner or a sloop. and sell
it for whatever it will bring at the end Of
the season. You can expend $1,000 and get
q splendid pleasure craft, or go as high a.
5000 600 and get a neatly QUILTED seventy
tive foot steam yacht"
good launch and the cost 10 comparatively
small. You can buy a petroleum launch
twenty-five feet in length with a width of
four feet six inches and Of one horse power,
finished In ash or oak, for $3.50. A launch
of the same proportions for salt water use
cost for salt water use ID due TO ths expense
for %condensers and water tanks. The cost
for launches twenty-five, thirty and thirty
three feet in length. finished in ash, oak or
mahogany, ranges from 1925 to 81, 200.
These boats are constructed with cedar
bottoms, coppsr-riveted ovsr-hang stern
and pretty shear seats forward and aft OF
the motor. The rudder is Of brass or iron
running through the overhang or counter
and fitted with a tilley and steering lines
leading aroun the inside of the boat. 80
that the steering can be done from any
place. The motor ia an automatic petro-
leum burner. generating steam.
The naphtha launches are constructed on
the Same general plan and are about equal
in cost. With a good engineer the danger
is practically inhnitesimal in either the
naphtha, tho petroleum or the Kerosene
A forty foot naphtha launch with .
draught twenty-six inches, fitted out with a
neat cabin, and finely upholstered will cost
all the way from $1,000 to $2,5O
In the line Of smaller sailing craft I
found the price very reasonable. There is
\ combination row and seilboat, really a
oatboat, which can be had all the way from
$3.50 to goo. The latter is nineteen feet in
length and can seat nine persons. 1t 10
supplied with rudder, tiller, yoke, foot
stretcher, back rests, anchor and rope.
brass swivel rowlocks, stem and stern pro-
tectors. ~isInicely Vanished and polished and
finished in colored wood
The full cat-rigged sail5oat with open
cockpit centrebosrd. sixteen feet long n
holding four persons, is worth with sail
$3.50. From this the prices range mp to 5000
for boats twenty-five feet in length aud
with q capacity for ten persons.
In sloop-riRQed boats, with jib and main
sail, the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will cost $500
md the thirty -footsr 81, 900.
One Of tho prettiest cabin catboRts in
New York is the Gunhilda. built for Mr..
Z. S. Jewstt. which is valued at ST, 800.
Thomas Il. Taber'sn new cabin cntboat il
built on the same general plan. and both
are entered in some of the best regattas
of the year. .
To show the interest all over the country
In speedy sailing yachts I am told that the
Herreschoffs. a week or 80 ago, sent out u
eeventeen-foot fin keel to Auburn, q sixteen
foot cat yawl to Lake Minnetonka, Mimi,
the fourth to be sent there this season. and
a twenty-three-foot cat yawl to Consnticut
Park. They, of course. receive higher
prices for all their work than those quoted
above. In fact, for such a boat AZ the
Wasp $4,000 10 considered cheap. But l
was shown a number of newly designed
yachts in South Brooklyn, all of which,
while cheaper in price, seemed to all ap-
pearancey as serviceable. One. a twenty
lve-foot boat, launched only a week or two
ago. is built on the lines of the Gloriana.
Her dimensions are twenty-three feet on
the water line and forty feet over all. The
frame il Of oak, with yellow pine plRnking.
She is finished III mahogany. and will be
yawl-rlgRed with a small jib aft. as she is
intended for cruising. ! understand that
she is sold for 1880.
Ogden Goelet. who owns the schooner
yacht Norseman, 10 oheertully paying ont
$4,000 a month now for the steam yacht