The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-04
FORTY THOUSAND MILES IN A
SMALL YACHT.
The Norma Shows a New York Clubs
Colors All over the World-A Noted
Yachtsman.

The yacht Narno, one of the crack
vessels of the Atlantic Yacht Club of
New York, arrived in port yesterday
after having covered nearly 10000 miles
on pleasure cruise under Commodore
w. ]. Weaver of the club. Commodore
Weaver is an enthusiastic yachtsman,
well known in yachting clubs all over
the world. He is the man whose lively
interview with Lord Dunraven after the
defeat of the latter's Valkyre at New
York, was one of the most widely re-
ported incidents of the controversy over
the international race that ended Dun
ravens efforts to get the American cup.
Weaver happened to be present in a
club when Dunraven was complaining
of unfair treatment and he replied by
telling the English lord in plain terms
that he was a "cad" and that the race
had been fairly won. On the Norma
Commodore Weaver is accompanied by
his sister in law, Mrs. Wallis and her
maid and companion.
The Norma has shown herself to be a
remarkable sailer and attracts much
attention in every port she visits. She
is only 153 feet in length and of 249. Z
tonnage but in rough seas she has log
ged 307 miles in a day and she has
weathered storms and squalls till her
seamen have concluded, with the super
stition of their calling, that she has a
and her sail area 2700 yards.
I'VE had sixteen squalls on our trip
from Yokohama here" said Mrs. Wal
lis, land encountered some very bad
head seas. That is why we were
twenty-nine days coming, though ship
ping men seem to think we made good
time. On the 23d the waves broke all
over our little craft and she was tossed
about like a cork. At o'clock in the
morning our foresail was carried away,
but we did not regard the situation as
dangerous. We knew our vessel too
well for that.
"At Kauai we sighted the China,
which had just left here for Japan.
We were flying the colors of the Allan
tic Yacht Club and sailed quite close.
They threw us a bun6le of papers. We
had to tack around the bundle again
and again before we could get hold OF
it. Then one of our men dived over
board and brought it up. We dried the
papers in the sun and were glad enough
to have them"
The Norma touched at Niihau and
Waimea and will visit the other Islands
of the group before continuing her
cruise. She will be overhauled here and
will probably be in port several weeks
after which she will go to the South
Sea Islands, carrying out the commo-
dore's purpose to cruise all over the
globe.
The Norma left New York four years
ago. She has shown her colors all over
the Mediterranean, in Morocco, Ber-
muda. the Azores, in Madeira. Benquil-
la Africa, on the Congo river, at Glib
raltar, Lisbon, Portsmouth, Sowes, Ter
quay CherbOurg, Havre, Nice, Tan
giers, Elba and many other places. The
Dlucky little craft touched at Trieste
during the Spanish American war and
she was held there from May to Decem-
Der of last year. From there she went
to the Red Sea. where she weathered
very severe storms. She sailed to Sin.
gapore, HOngkong and Yokohama, leav-
ing the latter port for Honolulu on Au-
gust 5th. The commodore and his com
panions We're quite surprised at the
quantity of shipping and the evidences
of commercial activity they found In
Honolulu harbor.