The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1903-11-12
WALKER AND
HIS YACHT.
Claim for the Defiance
Makes Yokohama
Smile.

the Japan Gazette says, under the
heading "A Yachting Challenge from
Honblulu:"
A representative of the Hawaii Yacht
Club, Mr.. H. E Walker, is in Yoko-
hama on a visit, and comes armed
with challenge to the yachtsmen Of
Japan The Honolulu yachtsmen have
heard that Yokohama has some clever
designers and sailors of yachts and
therefore wish to engage them in
friendly contest. Mr.. Walker says
they are willing to put up a Y. 1000
cup to be annually competed for and
df Yokohama will take up the idea the
yachtsmen here can have the prefer
ence in the conditions. The idea is for
Yokohama to fix the size of the boat,
say, one with something like % feet
water line, and Honolulu will build one
to meet conditions. The Yokohama
boat could be taken over on one of
the liners next year and if it won, then
Honolulu would send a boat the fol-
lowing year to try to win the cup back.
The round trip from Yokohama should
not consume a month.
Mr.. Walker is very enthusiastic over
his proposal and is interviewing local
yachtsmen on the subject. He is the
owner of a pretty yacht, the Defiance,
about Is feet water line, that is the
champion in Hawaiian waters. She
recently won % mile race, before and
on the wind, with about 10 miles to
windward, in 2 hours 20 minutes, and
the boat has carried off all the races
for which she has entered. She is
smaller, however, than the craft sug-
gested for the Inter-Island Race,
though at present there are no restric-
tions and the matter is simply being
introduced to sporting enterprise.
A WONDERFUL BOAT.
Editor Japan Gazette: In morning
contemporary of the Goth inst. 1 no.
tise, an article headed "a Wonderful
Baat'' and as this article refers to
the, Hawaiian Yacht Defiance, of
which am the owner. ] would like to
say few words about her speed. The
yacht Defiance was built in Honolulu
by the Chas. D. Walker Boat & Ma
chine Works, and is certainly most
perfect type of the latest racing ma
chine. she was built for speed only,
and certainly developed it in marvel
Ious way. Her performance of cover
is not her best, for she has done a "a
mile course with five miles to wind
ward in the wonderful time of hours
and 10 minutes beating a fleet of over
12 boats, and coming in 10 minutes a
head of the crack Australian Yacht
Myrtle Defiance has not shown all her
speed yet, and 1 am positive that she
can cover a measured mile with favor
able conditions at the rate of u to 13
miles an hour: she is about II feet
water line and 26 feet over all, and
carries about $50 square feet of can
vas, and is at her best in about 10
to 20 mile breeze. 1 hope this will be
sufficient TO satisfy-without one go
ing into the calculating business.
I remain,
Yours very obediently,
H. E. WALKER.
Yokohama, Oct. sOth, 1903.
rive do not question the sincerity OF
our correspondent even in this remark
able statement, but would like to ask
him whether he would be prepared to
guarantee the accuracy of the lneas-
1Irements of the courses raced over?-
-. tGazette.l
w A DOUBTING THOMAS.
Of one of your contemporaries, 1 no
Sfced an account of a wonderful time
made by a racing yacht called the De-
fiance. measuring Is feet on load water
line. This smart boat is said to have
covered a course of % miles in race,
of which 10 miles were to windWaro,
in the remarkable time OF hours ~
minutes Supposing that the distance
given is the actual distance sailed, ana
not the distance of the race as per
chart, this works out at an average
speed of 81 miles per hour.
According to Dixon Kemp, the Wen
known authority, sailing vesseI 3
maximum speed is approximately l..
w. l. in feet 1.25 equals knots Der
hour. This is frequently exceeded by
modern racing yachts, but probably on
7y by reason of the increase OF foao
water line when the yacht is heeled
over, at high speeds. On water lne
OF is feet this formula gives a maxi
mum speed of knots per hour. sup
posing the Defiance has overhangs m
creasing her water line to 20 rect ei-
fective, that would give maximum
speed of s.25 knots. She must therefore
ha ouite a remarkable craft to make
O, average speed of 81 miles per
rour over a course of % miles. IL
the distance of the race was y miles
on the chart, and 10 miles was TO
vindward. the performance was more
,,eraarkatIe stin, the speed working out
at lover II miles per hour, and approx-
innAting the maximum speed Of Amer
lea Cup defenders.
Further particulars Of this wonderrui
craft would greatly interest iocai
yachtsrnen Yours truly,
MUNCHAUSEN, JUNIOR
yokohama, Oct. 2sth, 1868.