The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-29
GLADYS WON
YACHT RACE
Covered Course
in Eight Hours
Eight Min.
HOBRON'S CRAFT
HADSOME TRc UBLE
Mary L. Put Back to Port Be.
cause OF Sprinsins a
Leak.

In holly contested and eventfu
yacht race in which the flrst-raters
| took part over the fifty mile course
around Rabbit Island yesterday the
Gladys, with Commodore Hebron in
| command, won in the splendid time OF
eight hours and eight minutes. Clar-
ence Macfarlane brought La Paloma
over the line twenty-one minutes later.
The two yachts came into port within a
few minutes of each other and were
both tied up to Sorenson's wharf. The
Helene made good run but was so far
behind at the finish that her skipper
was given an opportunity to stay out
side while he was having his dinner
The Mary L. only went over a portion
of the course. Off Koko Head her crew
became seasick and as a leak was
the vessel should return to port. The
Mary L. put back and arrived in port
some two hours before the yachts
which went over the full course
The yachts started a few min
utes after nine o'clock. The Helene got
off first. Two minutes later the Mary
L. crossed the line, and at intervals of
two minutes La Paloma and Gladys got
under way. La Paloma overhauled her
competitors and led off Waikiki but at
Diamond Head the Gladys which had
made a straight run while the others
time the Helene was leading with Mary
L. and La Paioma following.
Then commenced the long beat up to
Rabbit Island. The Gladys got around
in a lively manner and when Waialae
Bay was reached was fifteen minutes
in the lead. The Gladys tackled into
Bay once but in going in a
second time her throat halyards snap
ped and her mainsail fell to the deck.
Fer moment the people on the Gladys
thought they had lost the race. But
quick as lightning Hebron Skinned up
the mast and reeved the halyard prop
erly again. In the fifteen minutes re-
CURED for the work of getting under
way again all the other yachts caught
up Despite her loss the Gladys still
the weather position and
soon got lead once more About this
time the Mary L. put back to Honolulu.
Between Rabbit Island and the main
land there is small island and the
Gladys put through between these two
and rounded Rabbit island. Just as
she had rounded the island and was
coming back, right before the wind, she
saw La PaIoma going in between the
small island and the main shore to
round Rabbit Island. La Paloma was
some distance behind the Gladys at this
time and the Helene was quite a way
back of La Paloma.
Ia the run home before the wind La
had fine chance to make up
the time she had lost and did manage
to make up seven minutes of it. The
Helene by this time had got way be-
hind. The Gladys and La Paloma let
out their spinnakers and the run home
vas exciting. The Gladys passed the
spar buoy after run lasting eight
hours and eight minutes and La Palo-
ma was only twenty-one minutes be-
lind her.
The yachts had stiff breeze all the
way and yachtsmen declare that a bet
er race day could not have been Sc
,ured if it had been ordered. On the
gladys with Hebron We're Ernest Mott
smith, Oscar White, Percy Benson, AL
an Dunn, Charles Weight and Prof.
the latter as a guest of
Commodore Hebron.