The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-15
CHEAP VACATIONS AT SEA
Sailing Vessels Glad to Get Passen-
gers at a Dollar a Day.

Sailing Vessels Glad to Get Passen-
gers at Dollar a Day.
If n man is not in health and wants
to spend his vacation in Il manner
which will do him the mos; good at the
least expense he cannot do better than
to take a trip as passenger on a sailing
vessel. \ trip in schooner plying be-
tween New York and some port on the
coast of Maine, or If he has time, to-
points of the maritime provinces OF
Canada, will soothe his nerves and
build up his weary frame and send
him back to work again filled with
new life.
To take long trip on a sailing YES
sci is an expensive operation in money
and time, but Il short trip on a coast
ing vessel is economical. 1t costs $500
to go around Cape Horn as passenger
in one of those splendid. great Yankee
clippers, but for trip Oh an ordinary
coasting schooner the expense is only
81 a day as rule.
If one is fortunate in selecting his
vessel he can generally occTpy the cap
comfortable. AS to feed, he will get
the ordinary fare of the cabin-lOtS of
savory stews, sea pie, ETC. 1t is coarse
food, perhaps, for the fastidious, but
he Will get an appetite from ozone
and the iodine of the sea breezes
which will make pork aud potatoes
taste like dish from the table of Luz
cullus. The passenger is always a
person in whom the officers and crew
take lively interest He comes to
them as rule like a creature from an
other world. With all that pertains
to the daily life of sailors he is usually
profoundly ignorant or possesses just
enough of knowledge to make his ig-
norance palpable.
He is interested in the vessel and
the sailors, and the sailors are inter-
ested in him, while the ship says never
a word, but bears him day by day fur
ther away from his old life and every
wave crest that slips by him browns
some care or vexation uptii he is ready
to swear that ''the earth is n desolate
place; garden of rest is the sea-"
The money received fo- Il passenger
is perquisite of the captain, so most
captains are perfectly willing to put
up with the Inconvenience of having
landsman bOthering about and asking
foolish questions" If a man is mar
ried and wants to take his wife on one
of these trips there is trouble in get
ting permission. Scarcely any skip
per takes his wife on tcips, only at
rare intervals, being thoroughly i'm
bued with the idea that woman has
no place on board n ship Still, a cap
tain of a coaSting vessel is a thrifty
person, and money can accomplish a
great deal.
On the big California clippers things
are different, but even on these wom-
an passenger is hardly persona grata.
The captain of one of these big ships
frequently has his wife and family
along, but he is not eager to have any
body else's wife and family aboard.
These vessels have staterooms and
cabins fitted up in a way that would
do credit to a transatlantic liner and
the captains table is good one.
Scarcely California clipper leaves
his port that has not ON board at least
one, perhaps several, passengers-men
who want to escape for while from
the temptations and cares of the world.
One going on a trip in sailing YES
sci should remember one thing If he
wants to have a calm and unrutfied
trip. and that is that the captain is an
absolute autOcrat on board his own
ship. Do not dispute him CT treat any
thing he may say with levity. He is
used to being respected and obeyed,
and always try to remember, when OIL
his own quarter deck or in his own
cabin, that he is monarch of all he
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