The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-28
RACISG YACHTS SHORT LIVED
sCH0ONE2 HILDEGARD ONE OF
THE LATEST ~EXiMPLES.
cwpCd by K'ng Edward When He was
Prince Cf wales, She Is Being Broken
Up-Ar;c,ita a Notable Exception
careers Of Some Famous Racers

careers Of Some Famous Racers
Ine schooner yacht Hildcgard. once
o~uel by King Edward VII. when he was
the P.Iace Of Wales. Is now being broken
up. She l. up the Hackensact River, and
IN a tew more days only o few souvenirs
wiz tc eft OF a yacht that at one time was
known all over the yachting world After
.be Prince Of Wales had got tn ough with
her she was purchated by George }. Gould.
and he after a few years cold her TO Gen.
y u Wh:t!ock Gen Whitiock, who by
the way is the perpetual feet captain
Of tho Atlantic Yacht Club. and a good
one too. took the cad of the yachts keel
and replaced il with an iron shoe He sold
the lead. which more than paid for the
cost Of making the changes, and had an
suvliarv engine installed He. Ia turn,
rvId the yGcnt 10 bIaheiey Hail, suo last
year she was sold TO a Hackensack dealer.
who said he would co vert q e yacht into
q brick schooner He found that fourteen
feet draught was too much for q brick
schooner. and after laying up for a year
he has decided TO break the vessel up
He is going to send a souvenir Of the yacht
TO King Edward.
Yachts are not long lived as a rule. There
are a few still enrolled that are r;ore than
fifty years old, but they are very few.
In the last few years many a crack craft
OF her day has fallen into the hands of the
Junk des!er and heen broken up for the
material used in lis construction. Lead
Just now lie worth about s90 a ton, and a
yacht tina has twenty or thirty tons OF
lead on her keel is easily sold and the lead
soon ripped Of II the hull of the yacht
Is sound and her model a fair one the junk
dealer may put iron ballast on in place Of the
lead that has been removed and sell the
yacht 10 some one who simply wants her
for cruising, but as a rule the hull is broken
up a. soon as the lead is taken of.
There are IL the latest yacht register
$500 yachts which are owed in this coun-
try and in Canada. OF ,.ese about IS rer
cent. have heen built in 1890 or sinoe then.
About 81 FER cent. we're built between
1890 and 1892. About s FER cent. were
built between 1880 and 1859, and the rest
prior TO that date.
The eldest yacht on the register is the
schooner America, row owned by Butler
Ames. This famous yacht was built in
1851, and since then she has had a varied
career. She won the cup which has been
udInSu lOT utT anu WHICH Dllllsu anu
Canadian yachts nave striven 90 hard to
win away. The America. after being
used as a yacht, became a blockade inner
during the civil war. Then she was used by
the Lighthouse Board. and at one time
was a school5hip for the cadets at Annap-
oils. 1t is very doubtful il much OF the
old vessel is left. as she has been rebuilt
and repaired 50 often. but she is still a
stanch ship and preserves her original
model, and she is still a fast sailer.
Next to the Americs comes the Nirvana,
which was owned by the late Commodore
George G. Tyson. The Nirvana was first
known as the Julia, and she, like the Amer
lea. was designed by George Steers. The
Ntrvana is a schooner, but as the julia she
was a sloop and she slung a boom more
than 30 feet in length. which WAS a wonderful
spar in those days She was built in 1854
and won many a hard fought race. The
modern cup defenders have booms very
little longer than that which was first put
on the Julia.
The sloop Cynthia, owned by r. L. Pond,
Jr., of Boston. was also built in 1854. She
has been known as the Magnet. Julia and
Truant. and is "a feet over all and 50 feet
on the water line. She has done some fine
sailing in her time and is still a good cruising
boat.
F Marion Crawford owns the schooner
Aida. This yacht was once the pilot boat
Ezra Nye and was built at Greenport in
1850, Mr. Crawford purchased her some
and now uses he in Italian waters and
fdr cruising in the Mediterranean He has
a stanch vessel.
The schooner Wa We Crest, another crack
boat in her day and now owned by James
Shaffee Of Belleville, Ont, was built by
Albertson Bros. at Philadelphia in 1885.
She is 81 feet long and 10 as comfortable
and stanch a cruising craft as the day
she was launched.
Another yacht built in 1885 10 the Violet.
by Herreshof & Stone at Bristol, r. l., and
Is the oldest to which the name Of Herreshof
70 attached in the record Since then this
hrn has changed. but the Herresho6s have
turned out the fastest yachts Of all sizes in
the world. The Violet is owned by H J.
Mckee Of Boston.
In 1865 the sloop Bess. a boat Y feet over
all and 80 feet on the water line, YVES built
ct Greenport. She is owned by Sydney
Grant Of Brooklyn. In her day she wal a
fast racing craft and she has many prizes
10 her name.
The schooner Dauntless also was built in
1865 This yacht was then known 40 LII
rondelle, and she has cruised all along his
coast and in European waters. Twice she
raced across sne ocean ocean once ono against 5ae
the Corone- when she was again beaten.
She was last owned by the late Commodore
Caldwell II. Colt and at his death was laid
up on the Connecticut River. She is now
owned by Mrs. c. L. F Robinson and 10
turned into a houseboat Her days Of sail
ing are over, but her timbers are still sound
and she would make a good cruiser IL only
rugged again. The Dauntless sailed against
the Genesta for the Cape May and Brenton's
Heef cups, but lost both trophies
The schooner Halcyon lie another craft
Z. &c vintage. She was built at Port Jeffer-
son and is now owned by Mrs. Fl. F Van
degrift. who has had an auxiliary engine
put in.
The Acteon, now owned by Edward
Weston OF Boston, was built by David
Kirby in 1857. She is a sloop 66 feet over
all and has been known as the ddie Voor-
bees and the Addie. The Iona, a schooner
built that same year, still exists and is
owned by j. A. Smyser OF Baltimore. She
was built at Newport. The schooner
Meteor. formerly the Zephyr, was built
az Marion, Mass, in 1868. The oldest Of
the imported yachts on the register is the
steamer Barracuda. which wa formerly
the Fauvette, and was built at Havre.
France, in 1859. She is an iron vessel.
These are all that date earlier than 1870.
and next 10 these comes the old cup de-
fender Columbia, a schooner built in 1871;
the Shadow, a Herreshof sloop that was
I.o.. ,,nbaayaHla h,tilf in 1871 ara 81.