Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . s to go. I have had a steam yacht for ten years,and in that time have traveled in it 55,000miles, and as I have been constantly incompany with sailing yachts, observingtheir picturesqueness and their helplessness,I think I am qualified to pronounce anopinion on the comparative merits of thetwo classes of yachts. I may give a few instances of my expe-rience. Some years since, as I was nearingIrvington,^ on my return from the city, Imet Mr. Stillmans yacht Wanderer^ whichhad just got under way for a cruise. Weexchanged salutes,
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . s to go. I have had a steam yacht for ten years,and in that time have traveled in it 55,000miles, and as I have been constantly incompany with sailing yachts, observingtheir picturesqueness and their helplessness,I think I am qualified to pronounce anopinion on the comparative merits of thetwo classes of yachts. I may give a few instances of my expe-rience. Some years since, as I was nearingIrvington,^ on my return from the city, Imet Mr. Stillmans yacht Wanderer^ whichhad just got under way for a cruise. Weexchanged salutes, and I went home. Nextmorning, on my trip down the river, I againencountered the M^anderer, which, aftersailing (or floating) all night, had not yetreached Yonkers.^ On another occasion, I met the Active,Captain Hurst, at Thirty-fourth street,bound up the river. I proceeded to Twenty-third street, disembarked, went to my office,and, in the afternoon, at 3:30, started on my r, of Nassau street, for permitting our artist to use many of 5 ii6 AMERICAN STEAM YACHTING,. CORSAIR, OWNED BY J. PIERPONT MORGAN, OF HIGHLAND FALLS ON HUDSON. usual homeward trip, and arrived at Irving-ton just as the Active was dropping heranchor. Her time from Staten Island, -^t^miles, w^as about 12 hours. In the race around Long Island, in 1884,there were fourteen of our best sailingyachts entered. I went to meet them atExecution Light, and arrived there just asthe two winning boats, the Graylings andthe Fanny, hove in sight. Their time aroundthe island was fairly good, but they werestopped a couple of miles from the stakeboat by a dead calm, and I lay there twohours, while they were making their lasttwo miles. In the highly-interesting cruise of theNew York Yacht Club, last summer, involv-ing the trial races between the Puritan andPriscilla, the advantages of steam shone outconspicuously. The steamers were able totake any position they preferred, and thus,on leaving New London, they allowed allthe sailin
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