Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . live on boardof such a craft, there would be no expensefor provisions, except for the board of themen which might cost $75. Then coal wouldnot cost more than $75, and repairs andsundries, $50 — making an aggregate of$350 per month, or $1,750 for the season offive months. To this must be added the an-nual refit and clothes for the men, amount-ing to say $750 more — making a grand totalof $2,500. For vessels of the second class, as de- much more: the coal $200, and repairs andsundries, including the mens uniforms, say$540—making
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . live on boardof such a craft, there would be no expensefor provisions, except for the board of themen which might cost $75. Then coal wouldnot cost more than $75, and repairs andsundries, $50 — making an aggregate of$350 per month, or $1,750 for the season offive months. To this must be added the an-nual refit and clothes for the men, amount-ing to say $750 more — making a grand totalof $2,500. For vessels of the second class, as de- much more: the coal $200, and repairs andsundries, including the mens uniforms, say$540—making $1,500 a month, or $7,500 forthe season. To this must be added $2,500for laying up and putting in commission —making a grand total of $10,000. Vessels of the third class cost very littlemore than the above, requiring, perhaps,an assistant engineer and one more deckhand, perhaps a mate, thus increasing thetotal by a couple of thousand dollars. I now come to vessels of the largest class,which require altogether a different scale AMERICAN STEAM YACHTING. ZZ. RADHA, J. M. SEYMOUR, OWNER, AMERICAN YACHT CLUB. of expense from the others. Such ships as theNourmahal 2^\&Atalanta carry a completecrew with first and second mates, first andsecond engineers, double sets of oilers,stokers, deck hands, assistant cooks, numer-ous stewards, etc. etc. Some of thesevessels have been in commission all theyear round, and the annual expense ofkeeping them up must be quite serious. Such vessels as the Corsair and Strangerneed not cost much more than the vesselsof the third class mentioned above. Thecrew of my boat number seventeen alltold, and my consumption of coal is only$350 a month, though I use the boat every day, and the fires never go out except onSundays. The expense of running a steam yachtmay be kept within very reasonable bounds,or it may be increased indefinitely, accord-ing to the way in wliich it is done. Anyone entertaining largely will, of course,run up an important sum for
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