The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12
COLUMBIA Of THE ISLANDS
VERDICT ON THE NEW YACHT
TRIED YESTERDAY.
She Resembles the Columbia in Many
Respects But is Of the Center Board
Type--Her Dimensions.

Honolulu has a new yacht, and one
Of which great things are expected. She
is nameless as yet, but she has dis
played enough good qualities to suggest
q number of names, each designating
some coveted quality in a yacht. She
was tried yesterday for the tlrst time,
great many yachtsmen being on hand
atathe boat houses to watch her trial
spin.
In outline as she rests in the water
she presents much the appearance of
the Columbia which successfully de-
Tended the America Cup from the
Shamrock last September. The Column
bia, though is a keel yacht, while the
new Honolulu craft is of the center
board design. But as the keel of the
Columbia is assimilated to a center
board, so the centerboard of the new
yacht is assimilated to a keel.
The new yacht was built from designs
submitted to the owners by Charles D
Walker and is the first of the center
board type Walker has built though
the Honolulu yacht fleet contains Il
number of other types built by Walker.
The dimensions of the new craft are
Length over all, % feet, 3 inches
length at the load water line ID feet ;
Team, over all, 9 feet; beam at the load
water line, feet, inches; depth, 2
ged, her mast a single stick of Oregon
pine 80 feet high, stepped well forward
in the body of the vessel, but as there
is so much OVcrhang, in appearance the
vessel LOOKS as though the mast were
not as well forward as it really is. The
boom is % feet long and the area of
the sail is 450 feet square.
She was built at Walkers boat house
on King street and was carried down
a 10 nd
launched at IL o'clock Saturday. Yes
terday she was given a trial On board
lier was Charles d. Walker and two OF
mis- men, and on behalf of the hui which
ordered her were, w. Mclean, Arthur
Giles and Emil Berndt. The trial prov
ed thoroughly satisfactory and after a
few finishing touches she will be ac-
cepted by the hui composed of w. Nc
Lean, Lloyd Conklin, ARTHUR Giles,
and Emil and Otto Berndt, the same
hui which owned the Kaikilani
The trial yesterday was confined to
the harbor and the channel so that all
she did and the way she did it could
be closely followed by the yachtsmen
who were interested spectators at the
Myrtle boat house. In every particular
she showed good qualities. She sails
exceedingly close up into the wind, and
in lacking she changes her direction
promptly, being able to come about
without loss Of distance, surprising in
this respect, it is said, even the Myrtle,
craft of similar class brought here
! from Auckland last winter by d. Gro
| zter and w. w. Harris, which up to
now surpassed everything else in the
feet in this particular. The Myrtle was
out yesterday and tried issues with the
new yacht so far as conditions would
permit, but generally to the advantage
of the new craft, and the Myrtle has
been considered the speediest boat in
calm waters in the fleet. It was tho
verdict of many of those who saw the
new vessel that she is the "Columbia
of the Islands," An outing to Pear
Harbor on the new yacht is planned
as soon as quarantine regulations will
permit