The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-21

A fair attendance of members turned
out to the yacht cruise on Saturday and
enjoyed the hospitality of the club
house. The mosquito proof rooms were
much appreciated and the Chowder
with Captain Chris Johnson in the gall
ley was enjoyed to the last mOuthful
1t was perfect yachting weather, both
Saturday and Sunday, and the race
down and the cruise back were all that
could be desired. Judge Wilcox in the
Hawaii came from Honolulu Sunday.
Commodore Hebron sailed the Gladys
round the lOchs yesterday morning, re-
turning with his crew in the Hawaii
The club has a new set of code signals
which We're used for the first time A
crowd of nOn-members visited the lochs
in the Two Brothers and the Water
witch was down Saturday with DR..
Golfer, Bishop Nichols and a small party
on board.
owing to some blasting in the Bishop
slip at two O'clock, the start of the
boats was delayed for half an hour
only four the Princess, Ni-ke, Myrtle
and Hihimanu lined up for the race
Both the sidewalk boats Remained
home under stress of their owners cir
cumstanCes. The OiO ACCOMPANIED the
racers part of the way and the sham
rock, with a dingy tender in tow sailed
down without. seriously competing She
made excellent time however and is en-
titled to six points if she cares to claim
them.
There was some clever jockeying at
the start Prince Cupid in particular
showing smartness in handling. The
five minute gun was fired at 2:4O and
the start made at 2:45 the boats cross
ing the line in the following order:
Princess, Ni-ke, Myrtle, Hihimanu.
Skipper Dow in the Abbey NJ acted as
stake boat off Waikiki.
The various points in the race were
passed as follows: Spar Buoy: Princess,
2:49; Myrtle, 2:49.5O; Hihimanu, 2:49.52;
Vi-ke, 2:5O; Kahuna, 2:511O. Bell buoy:
Princess, 2:53.3O; Myrtle, 2:545O; Vike
2:55; Hihtmanu, 2:55.1O; Kahuna, 1855
On the run to the stake boat, the Prin-
cess, which Out-sailed the fleet from the
start, made mistake in running in
while the rest made the stake boat in
one tack. The Vi-ke rounded the stake
boat first at 3;18.3O; Myrtle, 3:19; Prin-
cess, 3:l92O; Hihimanu, 1922; Kahuna,
1922. 40.
The straight leg to the Pearl Harbor
bar brought the boats back past the
buoys as follows. Bell buoy: Princess,
$685. Fi-ke, 3:39.5O; Myrtle, %; Hi
himanu, 3:42.45; Kahuna, 3:46. The
Abbey NJ, after hauling in anchor
started after the smaller craft and
with her new set of sails made good
bllllG h'N H. uulSllllB nara AT lIe neelS
Of the racers. Spar buoy: Princess,
3:59.5S Vi-ke, 3:45.29; Myrtle. 3:4L1O;
Hihimanu, BABE; Kahuna, 1890. AZ
ter leaving the spar buoy the Oio, which
had been keeping well in touch with all
the boats except the Ih'incess, sailed
for home. The Princess, using her
spinnaker as a balloon jib, rapidly out
footed the rest rounding the dredger
into the channel nearly fifteen minutes
| ahead. At the finish she crossed the
line sixteen minutes and ten seconds
ahead of the Myrtle, making the whole
trip of some fifteen miles, i'm two hours
and two minutes sailing time the fast
est yet made locally by any boat in her
class and perhaps i'm the yachting assoc
Ciati-n
The times at the finish as officially
taken and registered are: Princess, 4:42;
Myrtle, 4:5S10i Ni-ke, 5:OO1O; Hihimanu
SOLOS. All the racers, except the Hihi-
manu- shaved the shark pen too closely
and lost a few seconds getting out of
the way of the reef. The Shamrock
would have been up with the last three
boats and possibly ahead of them had
the heavy tender not been towing be-
hind, The Myrtle sailed back to Ho-
nolulu Immediately aftrr crossing the
line