Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-05
Captain James Has the Waterfront
Talking About a Graft He Is
Now Putting Together
Here.

along the beach at the Eva end Of the
haibOr.
This handiwork of the active and in
gcnious James consists of a wonderful
fishing schooner which is undergoing
the process of building. Already has
i excited the complimentary remarks
of numerous shippers and Jones fish.
! ing schooner Is destined to create still
| further comment, for it is a departure
in many ways from the stereot. sped
fishing craft and possesses many Of
James own 1902 improvements.
The schooner is about half complet.
| ed. In couple of weeks 1t will feel
the waters of the ocean along its keel
/ and folks on the front will be better
able to criticize its sea-going qualities.
In a small and otherwise vacant lot
OF Queen street, Just across from
| HaCkfCld's new wharf at the Eva end
/ Of the harbor, Captain James has his
cabin. and this is where he is building
/ his fishing schooner.
The mere fact of James preparing to
go into the fishing business has occa-
stoned considerable speculation. The
Japanese are practically the only fish.
ers in these waters and It seems Gu.
rlous to many longshoremen that
James should choose this method Of
making living. James is an expert.
enCed fisher and fish dealer. however
and it is doubtful II anyone can teach
the G3.yearold mariner anything in
The line of gathering in the finny tribe,
James knows fish all the way from
shrimp to whales. He apparently
knows how to build a fishing schoon'
err, too. for the way the smart peculiar.
looking little craft is forming beneath
bis hands is a marvel to behold. There
never was a boat in Honolulu harbOr
Ike the one that James is constructing.
II is prophesied, however. that after
the fishing fraternity observe the ad.
vCntages of James craft, he will be i'm.
mcdiately asked to plan other boats
on the same model.
Yesterday afternoon a number OF
shippers called on James at his cabin
and took a look at the schooner. They
: expressed favorable opinions. although
: they confessed that they had never
seen anything like 1t before.
1T appears to me like a cross be.
tween one of these here japanese sam.
pans and the Mayhower," said one OF
the shippers.
ooh, you're way off," said another.
That's the dead image of a composite
oyster boat and a racing barge"
IT'S got prov like Viking ship,
said another captain. Whats that
for JaneS?"
That's to hang lantern on when
IN staying outside the harbor all
night was the answer
why, she's got a centerboard." OBJ,
served another of the graceful critics
AS a matter of fact, James fishing
Sc hooner is a cross between an East
orn skip.jack and Gloucester fishing
dory. The Gloucester fishing dory is
a VIGOROUSLY good sea boat. OF course
some of James up.todate improve
ments figure largely in the construc
ton of the schooner; 1t wouldn't be
James boat If they did not.
She'll show creased heel when
she strikes the water" said Captain
; james this morning as, covered with
paint and tar and white lead, with his
ears full of oakum and his eyebrows
spattered with oil, he mapped brush
over the bottom OF his creation.
She's a pseudo.hybred pattern Of
my own, but she's a daisy. you bet"
The schooner measures twenty.eight
f. ct on the keel and thirty-three feet
over all. She has beam of eight and
half feet and depth of four and q
half feet. When completed she will
possess sixteen wells for fish and will
be so arranged that she will practical
ly be life-boat, containing twenty
four alright chambers.
Captain James Is being materially as
sisted in his work by John Paulsen a
well.known ship carpenter and a man
who has been shlpmate with Captain
James on a voyage or two. PauIsen is
a great believer in the James style OF
t&hing boat and with his knowledge
OF boat building and readiness to &C.
cept James ideas, the ancient mariner
is being wonderfully helped in the
LTilding of his marvellous craft.
There is considerable speculation as
to what James is going to name his
schooner. But James is keeping this
fact a very close secret. It Is limited
that the ancient mariner lays more
store by the name that he is going to
give his boat than the general water.
front pubic might imagine. 1t Is SUP
LGsed that some name significant of