New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-08
HOW TO ENJOY YACHTING.
THE BEsT PLEASURES RESERVED FOH
THOSE WHO WORK.
c,,.p.p.r,vr,.y POOR PERSONS FIND JOY IN
r1IE SPORT IN WHICH THE WEALTHY
HARDLY SHARE.

and Horace not the 1fS' VI ''''''
,,n,, have been found to be useful in variety
of vaye a fact that singles him out n"" n''
sn,,ossorr. For example, he tells us mat 'he
onenir, OF modern yachting season docs ho'
s;cor from those OF .925 years ago. Rough
xi,,- * still put to flight by the pleasant spring
,,b,-s and machines still draw down the dry
Vol. IN rho Goa .Trahunt0ue siccas Inachnf
.or;r,.~ Irrom Portland to St Augustine 'he
t,noil Graf, that sought she solid land III winter
winds az. once more knowing the heav' oil inc
se9 ana the yachtsInan Is sh'a'hhs Ms "'"
IN oak and triple brass before once more co''-
mi.tin. himself in a fragile bark N"'' ''''s'
10 the mcrcilcss sea.
Horace wrote all this before. except inc ha"i'N'
I'm history only the names change III HIS "''
this poet who hated the sea worse man 'a''''
,,t excou. for verse rendered fine hexameter
nra,.rs for the safety Of Virgil and M%cenas
whom they were ahoat; and in our day inc TACT
IS reported chat Jimmy Smith. OF the iiuiheIS
Yacht Club has put new tehu'"o"i" III "'
c,thoat and expects to have a brilliant racing
s,aeou Jimmy Smith j. not tn less lhil"' '""'
because Virgil cruised in an earlier day His
brass buttons must not hc allowed I" vast"
their enuIgcncc unrcrnartcd. and AT the street
correr stand he will positively refuse 70 buy any
uauc, that fails to refer to him as "'Apialh
I,pes smith" when the Hunkcrs Yacht cum
has its annual regatta. and when ne commands
his .'wcll-known racing. cathoat the Katie ;.
which. by the way, must not be referred /" 'is
a cathoat but a "mainsail yacht a ne"
name devised to obscure the insignificanc' sug-
gestcd by tho term catboat
WORK THE REAL PLEASURE IN YACHTING.
But Jimmy" has become posscss' d Of one great
truth that the best joys If yachting are almost
entirely 70 served for the comparatively poor. In
tho PREPARATION Of his boat for the season ~
puts in a great deal OF manual labor ana 'huS
shares in the Joys of anticipation while me
unfortunate millionaire has all tins removed
from him What does Dives know OF the pilde
of personal labor when his skipper taxes 'harS'
with his gang Of men and finishes every scrap
~ the nleasuralic work? The saving t. buy
new sails and the thrill Of getting them and
bending them on-wha, does Dives kno" about
this The scraping Of the old paint and the
otrljcation OF the new, the long. carcssing
svcop Of ,he varnsh brush and IN, delcatc
touthes around the hooks and iron"ork. the
srraying II the nasthoops and spars ana the
driving of them in their new coats on shcIIac.
For a boat is grateful feminine thing mat
fairly beams forth her satisfaction when beng
adorned for the season; and that's where JIM
lny" comes in for her best smiles. In fact ~ - n"'
far wrong in saying that al its best yachting Is
another name for workout work made per
feet. For hc knows that 1t Is more difficult for
the camel TO pass through the small door OF the
city gate than for the rich man to enter into III"
yachting JOYS OF the comparatively poor.
There were three Of th"s, "Iinlrnics' that owned
small sloop last summer and thought they
proved that the best fun Is not 10 toe gained In
the biggest craft Two Of them had "A TASTE FOR
watcr-colors and the third had taste for
criticism and tobacco while the other two
painted They knew every bay and inlet and
they painted every bank OF scdeo seawc"d and
rocks from Newport to Barncgat- Then craft
was almost small to have her ownership
divided VI into the Hypothetical sixty four
shares 81 "A ship, but they preferred to have it
stated in their contract. which was done ia
black letter highly illuminated and framed
that they each owned twenty -onc and onc-thrd
shares her She was only twenty five feet
long and nine feet wide. with an open cockpit
H. the centre Of her decks. and being without
ii cabin-top their method Of providing a shelter
highly ingenious. In tn" evening. after
anchorinS in bay, the mainsail was slowed
with the boom and caf dashed together. and the
wholo Of IL hoistcd three or four feet up the
mast Then large ring made OF iron rod which
IN day time lay outside the cpmbings Of the cock
pit was lifted and dashed to the tops Of four iron
uprights. which fitted into sockets on the floor
ing. over the frame work thus made an Oed
canvas cover was placed, the water proof cur
tain Of which hooked to scrcW-cycs on the
deck. They could stand up under this. and with
q forestry to the mast il held IN place and gave
them perfect shelter in every gale that blew.
With two large anchors and any quantity OF
cable they rode out the worst kinds Of weather.