Identifier: yachtsyachtingwi00cozz (find matches)
Title: Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Cozzens, Frederic Schiller, 1846-1928
Subjects: Yachts Yachting
Publisher: New York, Cassell & company, ltd
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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n this matter, and we beg to repro-duce It here from the N. Y. World of November 8, 1885. Ashe has chosen his examples from among the extremelyrich yachtsmen, our friends need not be unduly discour-aged.—Ed. The sailors and firemen receive on the average about$30 a month, which is more than is paid on steamersin the merchant service, in addition to the fact that thirty years since, it has grown in magni-tude, until we now have a fleet of vesselsvarying in length from 40 to 250 feet, andin size from 10 to 1,300 tons. Judging they are much better fed and housed than in sea-goingsteamers. Yachtsmen, therefore, have the pick of the seamenand most of their employes are Scandinavians. Mates re-ceive from $45 to $100 per month, and engineers the same,while sailing-masters or captains get from ;ioo to $200 permonth. The steward gets from $60 to $100 a month, and the cabinwaiters the same as the sailors. In the galley, the assistantcooks are paid from $40 to $60 per month, but what the chief
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-rillC liKIlK.K. (Drawn by lionrjsain.) 37 133 AMERICAN STEAM YACHTING. from the progress made in this pastimethus far, we may confidently expect to seea fleet of a hundred steam yachts beforeanother five years have elapsed, and thatthe enthusiasm for this style of yiichtingwill far outrun that for the old-fashionedsailing craft. In the near future, the prob-ability is that every gentleman residingduring the summer within thirty miles ofNew York, on the shores of the Hudson orEast River, will have his steam yacht inwhich to sail to and fi;om the city. Thereis no other mode of traveling to compareto it for pleasure and healthfulness. I mayhere quote the remark of the proprietor ofone of the finest of the fleet, when the im- gets is usually a secret, which the cook is too discreet, and themaster ashamed, to disclose. The yachts crews vary fromeight to fifty men, according to her size and the service shedoes, and the ships pay-roll from $400 a month to $2,500.Add to this the cost of fuel

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