The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02

been known. II was probably less than
either Resolute or Vanitie, with their
hulls OF manganese bronze. The Lip
ton yacht, like Defiance, had a wooden
hull, which costs less. AS materials,
and labor, are cheaper abroad, it would
be surprising II Shamrock ". cost less
even than Defiance.
The real drain upon the owners
pocketbooks came with the trial rae
ing. The three American boats went
into commission in May. were racing
by June /, and the trials continued UNI
til the first week In August. Then
came the war, and the boats were laid
up. Roughly speaking, they were in
commission ninety days, and took part
in twenty trial races.
What these races cost the owners
only the owners know. A man who
has seen most OF the bills Of one of the
American yachts estimated the expen-
SEES at $500 a day for each day in
commission.
II is not difficult to figure out where
this money went. A suit of sails costs
about $4,000. They are made OF Egyp-
tian cotton. and require much cutting
and recruiting To he fitted. Practically
every sail is carried in duplicate, and
by the end of reason each yact would
have three or four suits. a conserva-
tive estimate OF the cost of sails may
be placed at $4,000 for either Resolute
or Nanitie. All this canvas, it is hop
ed will be good for use next year.
Each sail was carefully dried, folded,
and slowed in sail lofts where mois
ture cannot get at them.
Some of Big Items.
The payroll was another big item.
For one yacht $4,000 was paid to the
men, excluding the captains salary.
Each sailor was a picked man and re-
ceived s45 a month instead of the *35
paid on pleasure yachts. He also re-
ceived so "A month as conduct mon
ey'-that is, SO for good behavior if
he remained on board to the end of the
season. on the boat in question each
man received his conduct money. Also
in the trial races n bonus of 81 went
To every sailor on the winning boat
and there was $3.50 fee for every
racing start.
There were some sixty men on the
payroll of each yacht. In addition to
the racing crew OF thirty sailors and
four substitutes, there were the sailing
master, mate, and navigator, and. in
addition, twenty men aboard the ten
der As tho crews could not live aboard
the yachts, they had to he quartered
on tenders which cost a tidy sum.
AS far back as last April, Vanitie's
crew had been modified under DIR.
Rauscher a physical trainer, who put
them through weeks of drill at Green
port. l.. l. They were quartered aboard
the CITY of Stamford on n training
table diet, and by the time Vanitie was
ready they were i'm the pink of condi-
ton. DIR. Rauscher. incidentally, con-
tinued to loog after their diet and
health throughout the trial racing sea-
SON, and the rules of training were OBJ
served at the table as well az during
working and sleeping hours.
One Dig outlay WIS loI HduiiiS 'hS
big sloops out and scraping and polish
ing their undcrbodies. These hauls
cost from 5000 to $500 each, and each
yacht was out five or six times.
Each yacht had at least two masts,
each costing, approximately $4,000
and Vanitie had three booms, two or
hollow wood and one Of steel which
she never used. She also was equipped
with four gaffs two OF wood, one OF
steel. and Zone of aluminium. Resolute
was as well supplied. Il is estimated
that extra spars for one yacht cost
$4,000.
While many OF these expenses fell
upon Sir Thomas Upton as well as on
American owners. il is believed that
Upton suffered least, I'm spite OF the
fact that the challenger and the con-
voying yacht Erin were obliged to
cross the Atlantic. The cost of this
trip was not much more than the nor
NAL cost of keeping the two boats in
commission, and the English sailors
do not get as high wages as do the
Americans