Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ay. cannot be less than $6,000 per month, and Mr. Astors Nour~inahal will only fall short of the expenses of the Namouna,and must be $8,000 to $10,000 a month. E. S. Stokes, whoonly uses the Fra Diavolo a few months in the year, spends.$20,000 a season on her. Mr. Edwin D. Morgans tour of the world in the Amy costa fortune ; her five months trip is estimated to have absorbedat least $50,000. A yacht under a 100 feet long cannot be keptup, even with economy, for less than $1,000 per month, andon most of them at least twice that
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ay. cannot be less than $6,000 per month, and Mr. Astors Nour~inahal will only fall short of the expenses of the Namouna,and must be $8,000 to $10,000 a month. E. S. Stokes, whoonly uses the Fra Diavolo a few months in the year, spends.$20,000 a season on her. Mr. Edwin D. Morgans tour of the world in the Amy costa fortune ; her five months trip is estimated to have absorbedat least $50,000. A yacht under a 100 feet long cannot be keptup, even with economy, for less than $1,000 per month, andon most of them at least twice that amount is spent, andthis without counting the interest on the money invested, orthe annual depreciation in the value of the property. Pierre Lorillard sold the Rhada to Mr. J. M. Seymour for$60,000, and it must cost $3,000 a month to keep her afloat, andthe same is probably true of all yachts of her size. As an old-time yachtsman observed, I dont know which will eat a manup the quickest, an extravagant wife or a steam yacht, butthink of a rich man with both. / #. BRITISH YACHTING. 139 BRITISH YACHTING. BY C. J. C. McALISTER. Immediately succeeding the prosaicand practical period of the Common-wealth, amongst the numerous sports andpastimes which Charles II. introduced toamuse his subjects, long tired of the re-straints of the Puritan rule, was the sailingof pleasure-boats in trials of speed, on theThames near Lambeth. The Merrie Mon-arch himself apparently evinced consider-able interest in these aquatic contests,which were amongst the most manly andhealthful amusements of an essentiallyeffeminate period of English history ; buthe seems to have utterly failed to succeedin inducing the lords and ladies of hisluxurious court to appreciate a pastime at-tended frequently with so many minor in-conveniencies as must have resulted fromthe climatic conditions under which boat-sailing was and is practised during theshort and uncertain season of an English summer. Towards the close of hi
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