The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-05
Many Points That May Be Dredged or Blasted
Away Before Navigation Sharp
Corners That Form Natural Protection.

marked 1-2 (fathom) there is a danger
Gus coral spit causing a turn to the
left before entering the channel to the
Middle and East lochs. This was stalk
ed by the Hawaii Yacht Club but Jap
anese sampans have either run down
or carried away the stake by mooring.
WEST LOCH IS NAvIGABLE.
The West loch is singularly clear
from projecting spits, the water run
ming deeply to the coral banks on
either side, where it averages, for some
two miles, nine feet for the edge shall
lows.
The water In the center channel off
the shark pen and in that neighbor-
hood, runs to an extreme depth of 12S
feet
Proceeding toward Ford's Island. a
rocky point, partly formed from the
ruins of an old fish pond, projects off
Waipio point, marked 12 (fathom)
stake H. Y. CO This stake has sunk
or broken off close to the surface.
This with the point last mentioned will,
it is thought, be included in the
Strengthening out plan.
FORD'S ISLAND DANGEROUS.
Rounding Fords Island on the sea-
ward side, the course taken by the
Iroquois in her late cruise, that vessel
mooring for luncheon at point off the
flag on the island marked u. S. n. on
the chart, a shoal runs out to the CEN
ter of the natural channel the deep
water being under the lee of the island.
This shoal marked l fathom) is chart
ed but not otherwise signalized.
The eastward end of Ford's island
runs out in a shoal of large area from
which rise the rocky isletS of Moku-nui
and Moku-iki. Two stakes are set here
by the Hawaii Yacht Club but by these
there is a bare two fathoms and the
larger boats often get a foot or two
too close and stir the mud.
The East and Middle lochs contain
much deep water but naturally shoal
as they approach their ends where
streams are constantly depositing allu-
vial banks. Off the Peninsula, partic-
ularly at its tip and on the leeward or
western point, the bottom is but a foot
or SO below the surface. Where the
water deepens, between the SPOT mark
ed / (fathom) and the shoal, runs a
channel of three to four fathoms. TIE
spot as marked rises abruptly and
while charted as one fathom is covered
by less than five feet of water. Tha
deeper pleasure craft often pile up here
and the yacht club has taken bearings
and will stake the spot. They have
already staked the extremity of the
neighboring shoal.
MIDDLE AND EAST LOCHS Shall
LOW.
The Middle loch contains but little
navigable water for vessels of any
draught The East loch shoals raSidly
towards the northern end, near Waiau
but is deeper on the Eastern side. The
natural channel on the western side of
Ford's Island. between it and the Wal
pio peninsula and across which the
ferry between the Oahu plantation su-
gar wharves plies by cable, is navigable
for deep draught vessels.
FOUR MILES OF INLAND SEAS.
The lochs extend inland some four
miles from the mouth of the harbor
whence it is one and a half miles to
the bar of the newly dredged thirty
foot channel.
The Peninsula is settled with the sum-
mer homes of Honolulu folk and is the
favorite resort of the yachting frater-
nifty. Their principal club house is
situated on the leeward side with a
smaller erection at Puuloa near the
shark pen. The naval property takes
in a portion of Ford's Island and the
opposite shore as marked by the flags
on the chart.