Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1905-06-24
|VANHOE
is TRIM.
Pretty Two Masted Schooner
Yacht Anchored OFF Market
Street to Sail.
RIVAL OF EMMA B.,
Captain Of IvanhOe Part Owner
Of Emma B., but FavOrs the
Former Craft.
IS THE LARGER OF THE TWO.
The Two Boats Will Carry Passen-
gers Off Asbury Park
This Summer.
is THE LARGER OF THE TWO

An interesting craft is the Ivan
hoe, the two-masted schooner yacht,
which left here to-day after being
laid up at Browns shipyard on the
Tottenville shore all winter. The
Ivanhoe which is a trim white craft,
has been anchored Off the foot of
Market street for the past few
weeks.
She will be used this summer at
Asbury Park as fishing schooner
to take parties out to the banks,
similarly to the Emma b. which has
done so for years each day during
the summer.
Captain II Fl. Pierce, of Belmar,
captain and owner of the Ivanhoe,
is also half-owner of the Emma B.
His business will, and will not be,
in opposition to that of the Emma
b.
The Ivanhoe is larger, both longer
and of greater tonnage than the
Emma B, and can carry more
people.
She is more finely appointed than
her rival, and shines from end to
t'other with bright paint and warm
ish and brasswork She carries a
crew of six men.
Captain Pierce is genial, whole
souled man with face beaming with
cordiality through the heavy tan.
He bought the Ivanhoe last year
from the former editor of the Bos-
ton Herald, Mr.. Thayer. A few
changes and improvements were
needed, and these have all been
made during the past few months.
The Ivanhoe was built fifteen
years ago. Her lines are very fine
and she can make good speed Her
length is sc feet over ALL She has
beam of 19 feet and draws eight
feet of water.
The Ivanhoe's tonnage is 61.74,
while the Emma BIS is only So.
The Ivanhoe is a very pretty
craft.
An impression of beauty, speed
and poise is gained from a view of
the Ivanhoe from the shore, and
this impression is only deepened
upon going closer.
A NEWS reporter boarded the
Ivanhoe yesterday afternoon and
found Captain Pierce and his crew
busily engaged in putting things
shipshape and getting water and sup
plies aboard for to-day's start. Cap
tain Pierce will go to Brooklyn be-
fopo oi1inor Fop OH rly IN
take launch which belongs with the
schooner, but for which Captain
Pierce will have little use at Asbury
Park.
The cabin of the Ivanhoe is large,
light, airy and roomy. The quarters
are finely appointed and offer ex-
cellent accommodations.
The best of linen, silver and china
appears on the captains table, and
the remains of a tempting dinner
were just about to be removed. With
the captain were his two small sons,
who inherit their dads sailing quail
| tiles.
| There are a number of hunks and
closets. The quarters of the crew up
bow are separated from the rear
cabin by the cooks quarters where
the dark-skinned man in white
aprons and cap, reigns supreme.
Captain Pierce is loyal member
of the Belmar Yacht Club, but said
that its new clubhouse cannot com
pare with that of the Raritan Yacht
Club. He is an enthusiast on yacht.
ing and sailed the Gladys to victory
in last years serial races at Bel
mar.
The sixteen-foot launch which he
purchased with the Ivanhoe is very
speedy, and he has received severa
liberal offers for it. He says that
If he had thought in fine, he woult
have entered the launch in the Dec
Grafton Day races of the RaritaI
Yacht Club. He says he would hav,
gotten prize.
AS the visiting parties pulled ava,
from the Ivanhoe's side, Captain