The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-23

THE YACHTS
Continued from Page 1O.I
keeping between line of buoys and
piles to judges stand.
FIRST CLASS RACE

| FIRST CLASS RACE.
| The warning gun for the first class
yacht race was sounded at 1929. Five
| minutes later the starting gun was
| fired, and the Gladys crossed the line
with a good lead, the Helene following
and the Mary L Donnie Dundee) was
| in the rear. AT the spar buoy all
| three boats were becalmed, and the
Helene got away first, catching the
| breeze and outjockeying the other two
l.skippers. The Mary L went for the
shore breeze after rounding the bell
buoy At the first turn the Gladys
again took the lead. and continued to
/ gain until past the nagboat off Pearl
Harbor entrance, when the Mary L
took the lead again. She maintained
it, however, but a short time, when
the Gladys caught the breeze and shot
ahead for the third time She steadily
increased this lead, and the enthusi-
asts on Cummings were certain that
Tommy" .Hobron would repeat his
victory of last Regatta Day. Again
the Gladys was becalmed. The Mary
l. caught the breeze first, passed her,
entering the channel considerably in
the lead, and passing the judges stand
six minutes ahead of the Gladys. fin
ishing in 5 hours, l minutes and 80
seconds. The Gladys finished in hours
and minutes, the Helene, which lay
becalmed for nearly an hour, requiring
6 hours and Z minutes to finish the
judges having gone home before she
crossed the line
SECOND CLASS YACHT RACE.
The second class race was disap-
pointing from the fact that there was
but one starter, the Dewey, sailed by
c. Johnson. The Hawaii, which had
been entered, was withdrawn Friday
for I'M hut fbn
judges decided to allow the Dewey to
start, and awarded her the trophy.
She started five minutes after the
first class yachts, and for a time it
appeared as if she might catch them,
as they lay becalmed off the bell buoy
After the first squirt she fell steadily
behind, and finished twenty minutes
later than the Helene Her time was
considerably over six hours, though
last year she sailed the same course
in hours and 49 minutes.
THIRD CLASS RACE.
The keenest interest was in the third
class yacht race, which was also the
most disappointing There was the
largest number of entries in this event,
and also the most starters. though two
of the yachts were disabled and did not
finish
The Myrtle was given the victory.
though previous to her miShap John
son and Chapman's Pirate appeared to
have the race well in hand. There is
a general feeling of dissatisfaction
over the result of the race, and there
was some. talk yesterday of sailing the
race over again at some future day. A
protest was entered with the judges
against the Myrtle, because of the fact
that her rudder was used to scull her
out of calm, the remaining yachts
drifting aimlessly along, the while.
The charge was not denied, but the
judges disallowed the protest, saying
they could find no rule prohibiting the
use of the rudder in sailing. The Myr-
ties rudder is especially fitted for use
as a scull, and this, coupled with her
lightness, gave decided advantage
over her competitors. The winners of
the second and third prizes have both
offered to run the race again, and this,
coupled with the fact that the Pirate
and Hihimanu were disabled by acct
dent, makes it possible that the yachts
men may agree among themselves to
repeat the race of Saturday.
The start was good one, the seven
yachts crossing the line together, with
the Pirate a little in the lead. The
Pirate was becalmed just over the line,
the other boats passing her in a bunch,
the Shamrock II taking the lead. The
run down the harbor was made with
spinnakers set, no boat having any
advantage at the turn around the spar
buoy. Here they run into a calm, and
the race became a drifting match; the
Pirate held out to sea, and catching a
light air, passed the fleet, and took
the lead, and gradually increasing it
until about three-quarters of a mile
from the Sans Souci buoy, where she
had lead of fully half mile. Here
she met with a mishap, the rudder
breaking off at the stock, leaving her
at the mercy of the waves and cur
rents. Commodore Chapman attempted
to steer her with an oar, but without