Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-09-17
YACHTS AND YACHTING
AMATEUR SAILORS MUST
sooN! BESTIR THEMSELVES
Will Have TO Look For a Home Of
Their Own. Plans For
Hsndieapping
Yachts.


ing is gaining in Honolulu as time
goes on. 1t is becoming manifest that
something will have to be done to
bring the yachtsmen closer together
and make home for them where they
can rally. The action of the Bishop
Estate trustees in giving the Myrtle
Club notice to quit their present loca-
tion. and the clubs inability to secure
a suitable location on the harbor,
makes It obligatory on the part Of the
yachtsmen to get together and devise
some plan for the future fostering Of
the sport. As the Myrtles are to be
dispossessed Of their location. SO in
time will the Healani Club be moved.
as waterfront property is becoming too
valuable for the purposes Of boat
clubs. There has been some action TAX
en- In the past looking towards the es-
Establishment OF a yacht club house at
Pearl City. The matter has been al
lowed to simmer, however, and as re-
suit nothing has been accomplished.
For the sport and enjoyment that
yachting gives. and the number of pco-
pie here interested in It, II appears
that IL the right effort were made
something In the direction of the con-
solidation of the local yachting inter-
ests could be done which would insure
the continuance and buiIding up Of the
sport. The boat clubs as t.ey now are
do nothing to foster yachting. They
are primarily established for the fur
therance OF rowing, and yachtsmcn
are allowed membership as anyone
else is. no inducements being held out
to them to join.
With a home OF their own where
yachts and yachting would be the
prime factor the sport would become
much more enjoyable than 1t now is,
In that there would be some definite
purpose to be worked out to the sue
cessful conduct of the institution.
Another matter which will soon have
to be attended to. II the sport Is to con-
tinue and be fair is the classifying OF
the boats according to measurement
and sail area. As II Is now boats are
designated first, second. third and
fourth. class. There is no hard and
fast rule under which they all sail and
consequently little boats and big boats.
slow boats and fast boats, are all pit
ted against each other in the different
classes, no boat giving any other boat
In her class any time allowance al
though this manner of running is ex-
tremely unfair.
At one time an effort was made Ia
classify yachts on previous perform
ances. I nis Is not satisfactory as II
Is seldom that the boats sail twice I'M
der the same conditions of wind and
Is no criterion Of what she will or can
do another year. Under the rules of
the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Associa-
ton Of the Coast, regattas have been
held for several years and always sue
cessfully as to handicapping and time
ment Is a very successful one under
which the yachts pitted against one
another compete on an equality. The
manner of measurement is. as follows:
Length over all; .overhang forward !;
overhang aft; length load waterline:
perpendicular, divided by two; base
line; excess of spinaker boom; length
OF GAIT; length of main lopmast $50
per cent Of the latter taken) deducted
from gaff; corrected base line; boom
to main deck. The correct base null
tiplied by one half the perpendicular
gives the sail area. The formula for
getting the racing length is by adding
the length Of water line, to the square
root OF the sail area, and dividing this
result by two.
It is to be hoped that some action
looking to the continuance Of yachting
In Hawaiian waters will soon be taken
so the encroachment of commerce In
the harbor and along the bay front
will not do away entirely with one oil
the most pleasureable and interesting
pastimes In Honolulu.