The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-25
OYSTERS But No SHARK
YACHT cUUIsE HAS rINE ruu
UrT $50 FISH
only Two Lines Were out Saturday
NighJ oyster Beds Yield sucoulent
BiVulNes

The second cruise of the Hawaii
Yacht club was fortunate in being ac-
compauied by perfect sailing weather, "a
steady breeze. brilliant but not scorch-
ing sunshine and perfect moonlight. Al
though no sharks responded To- the in
vitations extended, the trip proved most
ENJOYABLE and should not have been
missed by any of the members
Several Of the latter were deferred by
an idea that seems to be prevalent with
many of the local yachtsmen that con-
ditions at this time of the year are
likely to result in dirty weather outside
and that because boats are snugly
housed back east and iceyachting has
taken the place of regular sailing, that
it is therefore winter down here under
conditions that are modified but still
prevent cruising.
Commodore Hebron who sails regular
~ week i'm and week out the year round
is very anxious to change this idea.
While no one is likely to go a sailing in
a kona or rain weather. there are
majority Of days that, like Saturday
and yesterday. make this time of the
year the most enjoyable of all. The
sun is tempered from the heat of mid
summer and a fresh and steady breeze
is generally blowing that is however by
no means gale or dangerous TO the
keeps balmy and extra blankets are not
required.
There are of course certain times dur
ing the winter months down here when
the weather is apt to be more turbulent
than at other times of the year, but on
anp average this is not so and winter
yachting in Hawaii furnishes the beau
ideal of yachting weather as a general
rule.
Fishing was not largely INDUCED in
during the cruise of yesterday and Sa-
turday, and the trolling run off Bar
ber's Point was altogether abandoned
owing to the smallness of the fleet only
two boats left the mornings Saturday
afternoon, flying the COMMODORE and
vice-commodore' pennants. These were
the GLADYS and the Ni-ke. In the lat
ter Prince David took with him as
crew Horace Craft and it seemed likely
that the Gladys would also go to sea
with only one able seaman aboard be-
sides her skipper, various members Oh
her anticipated crew having sent eX-
cuses or failed to appear. At the last
moment Port Captain Roth appeared on
the Healanis wharf and was sent home
for his yachting clothes and kidnapped
aboard the Gladys.
The run down was made in quick time
with a steady breeze. A trolling line
was nut out from both boats about half
way down without results, beyond some
fnny monster walking away with the
lure belonging to the Gladys, nook,
swivel and all.
The two boats sailed up the harbor to
the Peninsula the Vi-ke going on to j.
f. Colburns for the night while the
Gladys, after dinner and a sail down
the western loch ran back to Puuloa
and anchored for the night off the shark
pen.
The cane bordering the lochs and on
Fords Island seems very dense and ls
all in tassel, beautiful sight when the
trade breeze rustles across the planta-
ton. Plenty of fish life was in evidence
several turtles were seen, alus skipped
aolng the surface like the sculling
stones thrown by children, hihimanus
rose out OF the water with their wing
like fins extended and an occasional
ulua broke the quiet waters with a
mighty splash. The moonlight was in
tense, the ranges of mountains back of
Honolulu and at Waianae showing their
serrated peaks sharply against the sky
line while the cloud forms usually COW
ering their crests hung suspended in a
violet sky halfway to the zenith like
masses of mother of pearl in the trans
forming brilliance of the planet The
stakes and buoys placed by the club
were all i'm position and could be readily
picked up in the moonlight proving val
liable auXiliaTies even to a skipper as
familiar with the twists and turns Of
the present channel as the master of
the Gladys.
Secretary Weaver was found swim
ming around the MacFarlane pier at the
Peninsula and was requisitioned by the
commodore to come aboard for the
n 10 a a
formed one of the four that ate their
dinner round the swinging table i'm thel
cosy cabin of the Gladys, waited on by
Commodores man Friday while the
genial commodore himself turned chef
with his Primu stove and dispensed edi-
BILE hospitality with a liberal hand. 1t
was a regular little course dinner COM
mencing with soup and ending with
coffee. AT the night mOorings a gristly
chunk of beef was annexed with tempt
ing skill to a vicious looking hook and
thrown into the deep water while an
ingenious arrangement connected with
a tin pan was rugged up as a patent
alarm in case a hungry shark apprO-
priated the bait, which it didn't. The
same preparations and luck attended
the Vi-ke up the peninsula.
A run up and down the lochs after
breakfast was accompanied with a
VISIT TO the proposed CLUB site on which
are two buildings one of which can at
little expense be converted into a kitch-
en- and dining room for the club house
while the other may prove valuable for
storage of the members odds and ends
of spare sails and spars.
The BOnny came up from Honolulu
in the morning and had a brush with
the Gladys the latter being handicapped
by towing her dingy, The Bonny was
not equal to the occasion however.
Weaver was picked up and the Vi-ke
was Joined, her crew coming over to
lunch bringing with them dozen or so
fresh oysters from j. f. Colburn's beds
that proved fat and succulent and eff
fectually disproved the statement that
Hawaii has no oysters. The Bonny byI
this time had gone home and the Vi-ke
and Gladys followed suit after lunch |
There was a fresh steady breeze that
enabled the Gladys to reach home on
Dne long tack to the harbor mouth. |
passing the lighthouse in an hour and |
twenty seven minutes from the Shark |
pen at Puuloa, splendid sailing time |
,or the beat back. The Vi-ke arrived |
1alf an bpnT a for