New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-27
YACHTS AND YACHTING.
ATLANTIC YACHT CLUBS NEW FERRY
STEAMER-THE HELvETIA BEING FITTED
Or-T-GENERAL NEWS AND GOSSIP.


and its new clubhouse at Norton's Point; Coney
Island. The steamer TO be chartered is the GUIDE
owned by Captain Thomas Pitt who also owns 'he
Falcon. which in summer plies between RoseoanK'
Staten Island. and Fort Hamilton. Captain Put
said Yesterday that the Guide would probably ne
chartered by the club for eight months in the year
and that as soon as the papers were signed the
sseamer would be put in readiness for the coming
season. The Guide is rs feet long and "a lee.
wide She was originally built as a high,spesd
Fieseen. which was aftcrward taken ny me ~
only travel twen,y-three miles an hour which,
although good speed did not put her IN Sno b,,;it
higher, to carry an upper passenger Co.
though she siill retains much OK ne' r}p5ows
along her sides and when these are lowered Sic
passengers. As she draws only four ana a ' .ho
feet Of water she will be useful to ne cno l te
shadows Of Gravesend Fay. Her ordinary speeqI..
without being pushed Is fifteen miles an hout. IL.
,scksis and that the expenses OF the boa, will be
regarded ordinary club outlay me iuea c,S
P member thtr families: and Others The Guido Is
smooth.rlnnng Sraib Tno is Il she had been
built to order. Wall Street members can make enc me
passage from their Offices to Sea Gate IN an hour'
Commodore Henry Rouse's schooner lroquois. the
flagship Of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Cluo'
IL receiving new rails. and Will have her potion
cemented afresh Her decks are being rsca a1eG
and she Is being given thorough overhauims,
with painting and vanishing inside and 2p'. SL Ing
work is being done at McGo"ans yaro' Sou'''
Brooklyn.
AT the same yards the well-known racing 10
footer Chispa "nlcA was i"'e'! s " Sh,
Gair, is having new standing rigging set up. she Is
also being calkcd and painted 50 as 10 ee rvd"y
LOT inc cary ''e"''''
Since 1t was announced that Colonel Oliver II.
Payne had chartered the big steam yacht Eleanor
again yachtsmen have been wondering what he
would do with Captain Scott. This skipper COM
manded the Eleanor last summer. when Colonel
go o. ~. 80, ,.,t, 20. heo,n for Colo
mel Payne at BAN Ne ahG az r II is now
sertled however, that captain scott will 60 back
70 the Eleanor and command nor VII" Ia,,Dd ~
T TeSos oce ' who J gives this information the
far GfS dS Hi ng the sumner onihs aad Colonel
Payne intends 10 nave oST,a'" re trst part OF
=. Tsbo's "a "'''e 0N
The Heve,ia. owned by Columbus . l'onne'.
Iselin is now being fitted on; al the premises OF
the Bay Ridge Yacht Basin company ~ ' 49,
OF her being put in commission 50 carry IN .le
season IS regarded as eN'UeI',e ~ U.s., 80 ,os,
msn osn Ths n;s"s 10 no O doubt her Gait viii prove
highly Satisfactory. One f the men who were
woIkiiS on Nv X trdav When she would proceed to
her hesdqnai;ss AZ 10 infofma,ion
d ba o6sined on hoard As to what would then
Soua oe i,b rev bnJ ~ Is thought among the
Sailors IN the basin that she has already bean sold
,,,..,..x ,,,.,,d &c
The weI-Kho"n Cruis'ne wv '' 49,. uoCowan
having a new 'ailIin"s. p "tsa 20 srrn and /,
me io' nv a,.. ,r.or s,roi, The numbers are
5nItinS new pipes to her water tanks and PUMPS
BELONGS be1 70 James Laughlin OF Pittsburg.
oe0"s' - '"'''N' -
W n. Langley VIII s''e ..e ,,D.a =. or. though
mast Inc present one ~,S,. ',a,o Tho respected
~ was sndetender new stern two or three years
ago
Sawyer Sons making an entire new suit OF
sails for the schooner yacht Wanderer' owned py
w H REYNOLDS of the AaniiG Yacht m C so, T pas
Been PAM pan nd w Sst HotSng MOE done
a aesler ,b ssy 6rs stT week in Aprii
Y, ,hAse dave NJ submarine mines and other dis
turbing influences no precautions are oH!,ea N!'ea
the queen raves Oh inc roy %. ~ W,rcb
ALBEIT Nheh she s'eP' a. VI 49,, ohain
10 when beginning her journey 70 ma a.
S Sert ana Renamed here on guard all night. BY
order Of the French Government. no hammerlng
was allowed in the navy yards al Cherbourg when
the French harbor 1t Is ,housni IN m oaen NH
hsnhon he ov4riand route TO the south Of France
and will sail direct to her destination the new
yacht Will be sSo Ieet Iois' cue 1reuhled win
world. ana as 'he Qur.u y 49, ~ ali ,ster
sea-sickness she VIII propapl! p'eie' INC a''-"'''
journey
At the last meeting Of the Staten Island Yacht
~,,A . ,uvar lo,.,rg crn was presented 70 E w
Si1o s"'et ''''s ,,..s ...o.,,x.r .r
Simonson, VINO was 'heh Ft-eleO'eu 'ie's"ie' '''
the seventh time. The other officers elected were.
corroaora ,~bar,os = ,4icks. yice-commodore G.
z W;ecenG. eerretsrv Edward Seguine; meas
urer Adolph Pannick: trustees Charles +. Wnsch
ga Tivinrston G RostNick
,,A ~ Ano, do,s - The ..ear, vach. Osceola
49, 49, =. pi,o.. Id cov,h Prooklvn