The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-17

be remembered, as follows: First class
yacht race-Eva: second class yacht race
Hawaii; third class yacht race-Vi-he;
four~h class yacht race-Pokii. All proved
correct except one. in the third class race,
where the Vi-ke came in second
/ Oscar Whites Eva, Fred Whitneys
Helene and Charlie Smiths Bonnie Dun
dee We're the entries for the first class
yacht race. All started.
! The course was from starting line pass
ing out channel, keeping between line of
broys and piles, leaving spar and bell
buoys on port side; thence to and around
can buoy off j. B. Castles house. keeping
1t on the port side in rounding; thence
to flag boat off entrance to Pearl Har-
bor keeping it on s,arboard side in round
ing; thence to and around bell buoy, leav-
ing it on port side; thence to spar buoy,
leaving it the starboard side; thence
keeping between line of buoys and piles
in channel to judges stand.
! The Eva got away well in the lead the
Bonnie Dundee coming second with the
Helene last. The Helene overhauled the
Bonnie Dundee however, before the chan
ned was passed. The preparatory gun had
sounded at HOB, five minutes later the
starting gun was fired from the light
house.
The Helene. having passed the Bonnie
Dundee, kept gaining rapidly, and. at the
spar buoy had also passed the Eva. lead
ing them both to the first turn. At 1l:35
the Helene rounded the can buoy off ].
B. Castles house, the Eva was then big
quarter of a mile behind while the Bonnie
Dundee, her nose buried all too deep in
the water, was not making a very good
third. At SO, four minutes later, the
Helene broke out her spinnaker. AT 1854
the Eva made the turn, breaking out her
spinnaker at II :40.35. The Bonnie Dundee
rounded the first buoy at II :42A, ~ mini
MI ha FOL az
her spinnaker at 11:462O, one minute later
her spinnaker sheet carried away. she
lost Roadway to some extent and Went
to leeward considerably
| Running down to the flag boat. off the
entrance of Pearl Harbor the Helene flew
along in advance of the others but got
some distance to Reward and lost much
of what she had gained in reaching in for
the turn. The Eva profited great deal
on account of this and, although the Hell
enc turned the stake first, the Eva was
close behind and, beating up to the bell
buoy succeeded in passing her.
| 1t was a splendid sight from the deck
of the tug Eleu, the contest between the
two well-matched little yachts, Helene
and Eva. The Bonnie Dundee, alas, was
not Gin it, as far as any chance of win
ming was concerned, she was outdistanced
early in the race. The manner in which
the Eva pulled up on the Helene was ex-
citing to behold.
! The Helene rounded the flag boat off
Pearl Harbor at 12:421a, little over two
and half minutes later, at 12:45.10. the
Eva made the turn, and a remarkably
fine turn it was, too. People on the Eleu,
close by, expected she would have to tack
again at the last moment, but no, like
bird the wing uncertain, just for a
moment, whether to change its course or
not, the graceful little yachts sails trem-
bled like the hestating fiutter of wings,
nrf, falx hax he's
she rounded the flag boat, shook her heels
at the stake, it seemed, caught the full
benefit of the wind and sped away for the
bell buoy, gaining rapidly on the Helene.
Look at the Eva lay over!'' cried the
yachtsmen on the Eleu, gluing their eyes
to their glasses, they're pushing her for
all she's worth" At 1880 the Bonnie
Dundee rounded the flag boat, after that
she was practically ''goner.'
! With the Bonnie Dundee away in the
rear, the Helene in the lead and the Eva
a close second and a good bit on the in
side the three yachts ran for the bell
buoy. Half way to the bell buoy the Eva
pulled ahead of the Helene, keeping first
place to the finish.
I At 1:4715 the Eva made the bell buoy
followed by the Helene at $50 and the
Bonnie Dundee at 2:09. The Eva had to
give the Bonnie Dundee thirty seconds,
but the result of race proved this of no
avail. Great enthusiasm and excitement
prevailed on every hand as the foremost
yachts came into the harbor. Consider
able lacking had to be done after passing
through the channel before the final dash
for the line. The Eva finished a splendid
first while the Helene made an excellent
second.
! The timers give the time of the three
boats in the first class race as follows:
Eva, three hours five minutes and TWEEN
fty seconds; Helene, three hours, eight
minutes and ffty-siX seconds; Bonnie
Dundee three hours twenty-six minutes
and fifty-six seconds. The Eva, there
fore, won the first prize, 500 trophy and
| the Helene the second prize, $50 trophy.
There were but two starters in the sec
ond class yacht race, w. l.. Wilcox's
Hawaii and T. w. Hobron's Dewey. The
course was the same as in the first class
The Dewey led at the start keeping that
position for long time. But still the
Hawaii hung close, very close, and the
race was an exceedingly interesting one
on account of the manner in which the
i two boats kept together. The Dewey in
,creased her lead a little on the run from
the bell buoy to the first stake off Wal
kiki. At one time, for little while, the
Dewey was leading by good distance,
lbut that lasted hardly any time. AT the
start, after leaving the bell buoy, the
Dewey sailed close into the eye of the
wind and the Hawaii carried no topsail.
AT 11:51.35 the Dewey rounded the can
buoy off Waikiki, the Hawaii making the
turn at II :53.40
| The wind failed the Hawaii and Dewey
,on the beat up from the Pearl Harbor
| flag boat. Better time would have been
made by the boats IL it had not been for
| this misfortune.
| The Hawaii, now in the lead. rounded
the flag boat off Pearl Harbor at 11.50,
at 1:3.40 the Dewey made the turn.
! On the run from the flag boat to the
bell buoy, with the Hawaii in the lead,
the Dewey did her level best to regain
1.-THE foremost place. 1t was a hot contest
and both boats did magnificently. The
bell buoy once rounded on the home
Istretch, the boats were flying at pretty
ispeed. The Hawaii rounded the bell buoy
at 2:3940. the Dewey at 2:l.10. The Ha-
wall tackled once only to the lighthouse.
the Dewey made two tacks. They finish
ed in fine style, only about four minutes
lapart, the Hawaii crossing the line first
Her time was three hours, forty-f1ve min
utes and fifty-two seconds. The Dewey's
time was three hours, forty-nine minutes
and nineteen seconds. The first prize In
the second class yacht race was $50
trophy.
i rJ-l, Ell CO