The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-12-22
YACHTING IN THE LAND
OF THE LOTUS EATERS
BY ALBERT DELMAR.

BY ALBERT DELNAR. !:
Honolulu being maritime port, strange that young
and old take to aquatic naturally Sea bathing the
Portable surf riding canoe racing
and yachting nduged in the whole year round
The earliest monarch the advent OF the white
Shores has been yacht owner, and
people The earlier craft their would interesting
reading but of this later We will deal this time with yachting
today
The first real yacht club formed years ago
found that the yachting did thrive
where the rowing organizations had yacht attached
the yachting feature began and ended right there few of the
leading yachtsnen together and formed
ciation known the Hawaii Yacht Club elected
rules made regaas held and with $1,000 club
house the beautiful shores of Pearl Habo the yachting inter
well taken Of
The club has membership of hundred
feet OF yachts and three boats Probably
where the world small fleet would such representative
lot of craft be found The soops predomna Cutters
bouts chooners yaw and sidewalk boats complete
OF Keel board and hne have their respective
However those who 90 off shore favor the keel boat and
admit of deep draught goes on type
will probably larger In the feet will be found
many widely separated parts world We have Fife
built Scotland builder Aus
aa nkeel from Japan; Bacon knockabout sloops and
schoone from San Francisco besides the craft built locally The
the have five classes of the
en We have also been able to hold an international race once
while for the blue ribbon trophy of Hawaii which
racing cutter and American cruising knockabou contested
Some fifteen years the King Kalakaua being
$500 cup
competed for by yachts five and under Soon
after there for this valuable trophy and changed hands
several times among the local fleet.
In 1892 the Fife arrived and the cup the
of this craft called the Bonnie Dundee She andy and held
this for the other craft having ghost of
show blow high low. But she her Waterloo 1900
she American boat of her notwith
standing the boats totally different types the
long deep and flushed decked with the eamark of
the other Bacon designed nockabout built solely for
cruising and comfort with high eeboard cabin and
American boat for fifty years and has
been defeated The this from harbor outside
and the five miles thence down the for
miles and making twenty-five mile The class in
which these boats sail would be called the ooters they
being feet the line and about thryseven feet
ali.
The Gladys Of knockabou has always been the
yachting circles when the speed
the natural question Can she best the Gads So they
ALL have yout with her. and the has
accommodated them kind of she has been
some exciting contests
year after her arva1a hyfoot schooner yacht
brought Several brushes had along the
coast which the knoabou out best Then challenge
Gladys for Lahana and back which
The the talk of the The OF
wndwept channels between boats
of different schooner being wentour and the
knockabout would be entirely favor of
the larger craft The distance seventve knots to windward
The place Saturday afternoon the boats
arrived back the night having taken thirty
The schooner did complete the
back when she felt she defeated but
allowing the time for her
Laana the Gladys by three hours
the channels but the nockabout
sail finish One interesting feature OF
finished together exactly the place
lo