The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-23
YACHTSMEN ENJOY
FITTING OUT time
Find as Much Pleasure in
Working on Craft as in
Racing Them.
EVERY YARD Is BUSY

These are busy times in all yards and
basins where yachts have been stored
since the close of tine last season. In such
yards at the Gas Engine and Power Com
pany's and the New York Yacht
Launch and Engine %Company's on the
Harlem River. Jacobs and Nevins's
at City Island and some OF the
smaller shops where new vessels are
nearing completion every effort Is
being made to finish the work so that
the yachts may be launched next month.
but ut some Of these yards there have
been labor troubles. and some owners
will be disappointed. In addition TO the
now work yachts that have been stored
have TO h overhauled and rcfttcd. and
there is lots Of work for nil those who
want to work.
At the storage basins such as Tebo's.
Boards. the Marine Basin, Fletcher's at
I1obokcn, and at Port Washington.
Greenwich. Port Jefferson. New London.
and IN short every yacht yard on the
coast from the Delaware TO Maine. there
never was so much work as is being done
now. Every IN of fine weather Is
being taken advantage of and hulle are
being scrapcd and painted. Joiner work
and spars are being vanished and the
engineers and their STATS are overhaul
ing and repairing the engines.
Al the basins mentioned chiefly large
yachts are stored or vessels whose own
cs can AFFORD to pay to rave the over
hauling done and not he troubled until
the skipper announces that the vessel is
ready. but all along the water
front Of the greater city. on both
sides OF th1 Hudson River. on both
sides of Long Island Sound and
wherever there is water there arc
thousands of small craft whose owners
are as busy az bees each week end get
ting their boats in shape for the yacht
ing season. The owners Of these boats
enjoy the work OF fitting out just as
much as they do the racing and cruising
later and the work that they do in prep
aration makes them appreciate more the
ease and comfort OF sailing or motoring.
These small craft nave stood through
the bleak storms of the winter with their
spars stripped bare and ugly canvas cov-
ering their hulls. The spars have grown
black under the influence of the weather
and the canvas has accumulated all the
dirt and dus, that has blown about the
shores. and this has been indel!bly i'm
hedded in II by the rains and SHOWS. on
the first sign OF warm weather the can-
vas coverings have been stripped or and
the hulls have been carefully examined
TO md out just what is to be done to 1T
out. The spars have been scraped and
how these are beginning to glisten under
rev vaTnish, and the hu!ls to look re-
eplendent under new coats OF white paint.
As the days grow longer work will be
continued in the evenings and by the
middle of next month launchings will he
In order. Then instead OF everything
looking bare around the yacht clubs there
viii ne fleets OF white hulled vessels tug
Sing at their moorings ready for service
~ any time. .
Among the yachts at Fletcher's yard
a. Hoboken now hitting out are Vice.
Commodore ]. +. Morgan's steam yacnts
Corsair and Mermaid. Roswell Eldridge's
kehtoh. Wilson Marshalrs Watawga and
ALLISON V. Armour's auxiliary Ctowara.