sentences:  Manned by a crew of 39 people, "Kanawha" was often compared by the newspapers of the day to the "North Star", the yacht of a member of the Vanderbilt family.Even among its contemporaries in the fleet of the New York Yacht Club, "Kanawha" was a large vessel.The yacht cost $350,000 to build, and it had a record-setting speed of 22.2 knots.