Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-08

on shore. The crew is set at work on the
rigging, spars and deck trimmings, and
the engineers tackle the engines.
The running rigging is taken down and
carefully overhauled and stored away. The
standing rigging is o~verhauled and some
of it taken down, only just enough being
left to keep the spars in place. If the
yacht has topmasts, these are lowered.
Then all brasswork, mahogany rails and
matches are carefully covered, so that
they shall be thoroughly protected from
the weather. With the engines there is just
as much careful work to be done.
Every part has to be examined and care
fully covered with oil or vaseline to keep
it from rusting, and then many parts are
wrapped to protect them from dampness
and weather, for the engine in a fine steam
yacht is as delicate a piece of machinery
as a watch and very little dampness will
the smokestack.
When the yacht has been stripped and
covered a house is usually built over tine
deck SO that the rain and snow cannot
beat against the deck and deck houses, and
then all is snug for the winter. Two men
are usually left on a large vessel to watch
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nothing is stolen, for even when stripped
there are still lots of things left that might
easily be removed and are worth stealing.
Usually on a large steamer the captain
and the engineer are engaged by the year
and it is part of their duty to watch the
vessel while it is laid up. They don't live
on board, but as a rule make daily visits
to their charge. The watchmen are often
salaotad from tho ppaW They live on the
vessel day and night. Thirty-five or forty
dollars a month and their board is what
they are paid.
Caring for sailing craft.
With a sailing craft the methods of lay
ing up is a little different. Yachts like the
Reliance, Constitution and Columbia are
hauled out OF the water and stand on ways.
The Reliance and Columbia are at City
Island, the Constitution is at New London
and the Shamrock III is at the Erie Basin.
Their masts have been removed and
houses built over their huils to protect
them from the storms. Their spars are
carefully wrapped in burlap and stored
away. The rigging is just as carefully pro-
tected and the blocks are examined thor
oughly and stored away, each one being
labelled. The sails are all well dried,
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house.
Small craft are often kept under sheds,
especially If they are built of mahogany
or cedar, or If left out in the open they
are covered with canvas.
Many owners of small craft who have
summer homes near the water have their
yachts hauled cut OIL their own property
and leave them standing on the shore until
the next season. The Hanan brothers,
who own the sloUps Aspirant, Seneca and
other craft, have houses at Port Chester.
They haul their vessels out on their own
ways and have a storehouse IN which 10
keep sails. spars, rigging and fittings.
with very small craft, such as catboats,
they are first dismasted, then hauled out
and turned over on the beach. Sometimes
they are covered with canvas, but often
are merely treated tn n coat of vaseline,
which keeps the plankinR from drying
when exposed to the weather, and then in
the spring. when refitted, this vaselinc is
scraped off and the wood IS as smooth and
clean as when first built,
Cost of the Service.
1t lcc SITS monsy C. lay a yacht Ut. The
cost fer small craft Is about 80 cents a
foot OF length and length H. figured from
the end Of the bowspTit If that spar is left
I'm to the extreme end aft. A craft that
measures sixty feet will consequently cost
$50 a month to lay up.
Then there is the cost OF hauling the
vessel cut of the water, which varies ac-
cording TO its size. and the cost of storing
spars. rigging, sails and fittings, depends
on the amount Of space required for all
these thinEe