The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-15
NEW YACHT CLUB HOUSE.
MAY UTILIZE BUILDING AT PUA.
LOA.
Desirable and Convenient Site at En-
trance Of Pearl Harbor Selected by
Members.

The club house for the new yachting
association Will, according to present
desires and arrangements be situated
at Pualoa the western promontory OF
Pearl Harbor looking seawards and be-
longing 10 the Dowsett estate.
1ne proposition is to utilize one Of the
buildings OF the salt works erected by
the late James 1. Dowsett, putting in "A
fresh door and building up a little tower
and other improvements that az a little
cost would make the club house at
tractiVe. At was at first thought that
the salt house facing the harbOr mouth
was built with coral and walls a slate
roof and would thus be quite acceptable
Gor a foundation, but il is the house
facing seawards that has these advan-
tages the other having only a single
roof and an ordinary wooden structure.
Its situation however lis eXcellently
adapted for the purpose The water
right from the landing once used by
the Dowestt boys, where two bleached
out, rotten hulls of what were once the
crack yachts of Honolulu still lie drops
sheer to depth of forty feet. A little
cape provides shelter against a south
erly gale and the extent of the deep
water makes the mooring an ideal one.
The salt works which will soon be
pulled down by the estate TO make room
for the plats which are some day to be
popular beach property, lie opposite the
entrance to the harbor on a beach that
hardly has a rival for bathing.
The new club house would make an
easy mornings run from Honolulu
leaving the sail around the Iochs for
an afternoon trip after luncheon at
the quarters. 1t is practically half way
between the Peninsula and Pearl City
and Honolulu. Across the harbor lies
the opposite promotOry up which the
railway is to run when the Puuloa lots
are suburban property long spit
where the water is onlv a foot deep
runs out for a considerable distance
across the neck and leaves only an
eighth of a mile of deep water TO be
crossed by a ferry while the railroad
trip viii be only an hour and a quarter
from town
with good location, first class an
chorage, swimming and fishing adVan-
tages, the new club bids fair to have a
site for their headquarters unequalled
in any waters. The lochs as sailing
waters are hard to be touched for breeze
or scenery and have only TO be known
to be more generally enjoyed. There is
plenty of good fishing in the lagoons OF
outside from sharks to mullet and it is
not unlikely that some day an Hawaiian
TUNA Club with fast launches and en-
thusiastic anglers will some day take
up their headquarters in the neighbor.
hood. The little fresh water needed al
the clubhouse may be obtained as II
was by the old Dowsett settlement witt
tanks to hold the rainfall that always
supplies sufficient for the needs of a
whole settlement
1t is understood that the property car
be secured from the Dowsett Estate 4
the club decides to make the necessary
alterations. Even If a new house ha,
to be built the probability is that tn,
pennant of the Hawaii Yacht Club viii
lily from a roof somewhere in the vici
nifty of the Pualoa landing.