New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-26
YACHTING NOTES OF INTEREST.
AMERICAN CRAFT IN MANY wATERs-NEw BOAT
AND CHANCES ~ OWNERSHIP.

AND CHANGES ~ OWNERSHIP.
The steam yacht Margarita. which left Phila-
delphla on Tuesday December 6. arrived IN the
Clyde last Monday night. having made tho journey
IN about fourteen days. In which she steamed 800
knot. without taking on more coal She is owned
by Anthony J. Drcxel. After some alterations at
Glasgow the boat Will proceed 10 the Medlter-
ranean.
The namo Of Drexei will become we'll known at
,hc Riviera yacht-racing In March. Mr. and Mrs.
John r. Drexel will Join their sutana at Mar
s.ues on her arrival from New-York Mr.: and
Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel will JOIN the Msrfar,ia Ht
Y c. Will follow in her steam yacht. the May.
The steam yacht Sylvia owned by Edward NJ.
Brown OF tho New-York Yacht club. arrived here
from Port jefferson on Friday w. l. Brooks Is
SIns'ms MY " {. The yacht will remain in
southern waters throughout the winter
The designer OF the steam speeding machine. the
Ellide says he is expecting orders for other fast
craft Next week the Ellide IS TO make stu an
other trial over the measured mile al iVlhg'on
for the United States Government
good many OF the old names appear In the
list OF officers elected in the Knickerbocker Yacht
Club John Y. Phillips will again be commodore
and will tool through his schooner. the Southern
Cross Vice-Commodore stephen II. Mason. jr..
will sail the Moccasin; Rear-Commodore F. c.
Fowler st!ll has the steam yacht lIuntress: Treas
urer George H. Cooper Will cruise IN his sloop. the
Edith. Among the other officials f9T ne coming
isloop Whileaway, fleet surgeon II; stephenson.
and an RoGman sands directors. J. o. slnkinson
will again act as secretary
The schooner-yacht Republic had her masts and
bowsprlt snapped OF her Ike carrots in the big
seas OF Cape Fear After being towed into VIII
mington n. c., and afterward to New-fork, she
was put In the Erie Basin and caught fire.
Augustus Schermerhorns steam yacht. the Free
Lance " Y. Y c.. has gone 10 Greenport Long
Island TO lie up for the winter.
Mr.. Busng. the German purchaser OF Flies
twenty-rater the Saint. which was wrecked last
July of the coast OF Holland. has given an order
TO Fife 10 build him a sixty hverater OF the same
size as this designers famous Isolde. In the Fair
Andrew Balm of the Royal Western Yacht club.
the Clyde This boat is 10 sail In the @3-foo water
line class.
Charles H. Seabury e. Co. OF Morris Heights. are
building for a member OF the New-York Yacht
Club a steam yacht that is to travel at the con-
tract rate of nfteen miles an hour. She Will be
ready service about the middle OF May, and has
an eighty water-line ffteen-foot beam
and Ave foot drausht She will be schooner rugged
bulkheads and a brass rudder. Nothing new will
appear in her internal arrangements The deck
house forward will be used as dining.room when
desired. and overhead Is the bridge from which
the yacht will be steered
At the shipyard OF John n. Robins In the Erie
Basin Brooklyn, a large and fine steam yacht has
been begun The craft will be built OF steel, and
will be $50 feet long all. l1 feet long the
water-line. with beam Of twenty feet. and draw