The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-01
HANDICAPS AND TIME BOREAS BLEW HARD
OFFICIAL RESULTS on FORD
ISLAND EFFORT.


with the exception of the Kahuna
and the WilHwiNi, the official racing
lengths for which have not yet been
handed To the racing committee by tine
official measures, handiCaps and cor
rected time for the first heat of the
Ford Island cup course, sailed over
February 20 by the third class yachts
for the Port Captains cup are now am
nounCed, having been computed from
Yacht Racing Union measurements.
The course was eight miles, the time
one gun start at 1886 In the first
figures given out, the time of each boat
was caught as they crossed the line, as
"a matter of interest, but the one gun
start is official i'm an races making the
jOCkeyiuE for a start worth while
The Ni-ke was the scratch boat of the
fleet with the Myrtle the limit. The Vi
he and Skip will later be given the all
lowanCe due to them as cabin boats I'M
order to class them with the others, all
| though in most waters cabin boats are
not considered eligible to compete with
open craft. As the Skip did not part-
| cipate i'm the first heat having run
aground, and as the Ni-ke failed to fin
| ish, the outcome would not have been
altered by making the Princess and
Columbia scratch boats. In any event
the heat was nOn-OhiCial and viii have
| to be resailed the time limit having
| been Overstepped. The figures are pub
lished and calculated for the yachtsmen
themselves, who have been anxious to
estimate their comparative handicaps.
The Myrtle is, strictly speaking in
class by herself but sails In the third
| or twenty-fOOt class, having a limit OF
not less than fifteen and not more than
| twenty feet racing length In so doing
| she is rated as fifteen-fOOt boat, aC-
COrding to universal regulations. 1t is
! quite possible to build a small craft
! having, say twelve feet racing length
| whose speed would be excellent and il
| handicapped on the regular scale be all
| lowed nearly two minutes in every mile.
! 1t Is to prevent these COntretemps tnat
the classes or divisions of boats are
made.
Equally unfair it is to put the Vi-ke
| or the Skip out of their class with open
boats. The handicap under the present
division of classes, would make the vi
Ike allow the Myrtle on the Diamond
! Head-Quarantine Island course, some
! fifteen minutes of handicap, impossible
for her to overcome.
The racing committee and officials of
the Hawaii Yacht Club are trying TO
even matters for ALL the small boats,
but with the mixture of types In Homo
lulu waters it is a slow matter. Even
tually when all the boats have been
sized up in various races. handicap
will be arranged on general perform
] dllttS lIlbuBuOul the season, enuedNOT-
ing to get the boats within a few sec
Onds of each others speed.
The first four boats in the trial heat
are easily selected but until the COM
plete measurements come in the other
places and handiCaps are still i'm doubt
Five of the boats finished within six
minutes of each other, a testimony t.
the handicappers,
lac course set for Saturday veeB
is being surveyed preliminarv 90 pub
fishing the handicaps. 1t probably runs
about fifteen miles. Two boats prac.
tically, dark horses" to mix metap.
hors, are the Oio and the Hihimanu anC
their performances may spread cOnster
nation among the present champions
The Oio has made excellent showing
and the Hihimanu is built along the
original plans Of the Columbia, the Ia.
cal builders having slightly altered tn,
model Of the latter boat The Hihi.
manu- is sitter than the Columbia anC
should give a good account of herself
The OiO won a pennant from the thirl
class boats i'm the race to Pearl Harbo
on the first cruise.
Henry Roth has added a second priz
for his race i'm the shape of an enamel
ed and gold pin, a facsimile of the Clul
device Of the flag within a steering
wheel.
The official time. corrected and act
ual, with the handicaps for Registered
boats over an eight-miIe course, are a
, I fpIIpUre.