Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ch, if the data were obtain-able, would be found far more interesting In the first place, none but the compara-tively wealthy can own and run a vesselkept purely for pleasure sailing, and it isdifficult to see how a man can expend hiswealth in sport more profitably to himself,his friends, and the community. In theequipment and victualing of a yacht, allclasses of the community receive a share,and the intimate friends of the owner re-ceive that which is most valuable of all,the health-giving exercise and the fresh seaair which
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . ch, if the data were obtain-able, would be found far more interesting In the first place, none but the compara-tively wealthy can own and run a vesselkept purely for pleasure sailing, and it isdifficult to see how a man can expend hiswealth in sport more profitably to himself,his friends, and the community. In theequipment and victualing of a yacht, allclasses of the community receive a share,and the intimate friends of the owner re-ceive that which is most valuable of all,the health-giving exercise and the fresh seaair which is its accompaniment, the ownerhimself getting in these ample return for allhis outlay. So, in all these years of which I havewritten, I can picture the splendid fleet,getting under-way each fine afternoon ofthe season, from off the Elysian Fields,and according as the tide served for a surereturn in the earlyevening, sailing eitherdown the Bay or upthe Hudson River, theclub, in those earlydays, being more fort-unate than duringits later years, when,account of the. SCHOONER MADELEINE. than these, and that is the account ofthe private cruises and the afternoon sail-ing ; these, after all, constituting the realenjoyment of the sport, to which the publicraces are merely incidental. It is thesethat make yachting the very prince of out-of-door sports. It is free from all theabuses and objections attaching to the turf,and must, from the very nature of things,always be the sport of gentlemen. * First owned by Jacob Voorhis ; encroachments of the commerce of theport, its afternoon sails must always bemade toward Sandy Hook. It was morefortunate also in another respect, that thenit had a regular anchorage, with a club-house and landing near by. After all, however, the cruises up theSound, the most splendid sheet of waterfor yachting purposes in the world, werethe chief glory of the yachtsmen. To start present owner John R. Dickerson. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 29 with a congenial
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