The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-09
WILL BOOM
YACHTING
Officers of the Hawaii
Yacht Club Arouse
Enthusiasm.

Yachting under the auspices OF the
Hawaii Yacht Club is on the eve of
boom with the election of Commodore
Cooper and the hearty cooperation of
Vice Commodore Picker and other en-
thusiastic members of the organization.
First and foremost they will attempt
to get out of debt In this they vie with
the Healani and Myrtle Clubs who an
nually find themselves laboring under a
deficit from various causes. With the
yachtsmen the trouble IS but a temper
airy one as the dues pay all running ex-
penses and they have only the debt on
the club house to clear off. Realizing
that the amateur talent of Honolulu is
abnormal and that the public must de-
pend to great extent on amateur pro-
ductlonS which have proved erninently
satisfactory, all the oarsmen and yachts
men are out after chance to get even
on their liabilities and at the same time
give full quid pro quo. The Myrtle
Boat Club already has the opera OF
Said Pasha' in prospective for Sep
TENDER and the Healanis have had each
year some income of late years from
minstrel shows and masquerade balls.
The yachtsmen think it is their turn
as they have never had benefit and also
is their intention to become hospitable
upon a much larger scale than hitherto
and give dances and chowders in their
club house at the Peninsula besides max
ing their lady friends free of their yachts
for sailing. he ladies of Honolulu
have indeed shown a decided disposition
to take up yachting. Several parties
have gone down to the Pearl Harbor
lochs by sea in launches. Mrs. Allan
Dunn has proved herself a staunch sail
or by making the windward passage from
Waialua to Honolulu while several dam
sells were left disconSolate at Haleiwa
who wished to make the same trip but
whose chaperones were not willing for
them to assume the risk So they per-
force contented themselves by wearing
sailor blouSes with the name of their ia
vorite craft emblazoned thereon.
Last week end the merry party of soci-
and several of the yacht members wives
are beginning to be seen in the cockpits of
their husbands yachts from time to time
with friends who like the sea and the
breeze. Among these are Mrs. T. w.
Hebron, Mrs. Fred Whitney, Mrs. L.
de L. Ward and Mrs. Van Valkenberg.
And now the yachtsmen are contem-
plating the giving of the famous English
comedy, "Charley's Aunt" which ran
for three years on its first production.
A meeting is to be held today to con-
slider the matter and if carried through
the play will be given by the end of July
under the direction of Allan Dunn. 1t is
in no wise the intention of the yachts
men to interfere with any other benefits
of oarsmen and they will go at the mat
ter on a cooperative plan asking the
assistance of the Myrtles and Healanis
with the promise of reciprocity later on.
While the horses are running at Ka-
pio1ani Park and golfers are swatting
the ball over the Haleiwa links, the
yachtsmen will be holding a regatta at
Pearl Harbor for two classes. the yachts
having been so incorporated for convent
ence and handicapped
The course lies from the regular start
ing line between the clubhouse at the
Peninsula and a flag off shore and
runs past the mouth of Pearl Harbor up
the channel and around the port entrance
pile rounding Ford Island keeping same
to starbOard on return and back to the
starting line. Both classes of yachts go
over the same course, starting ten min
utes apart with the starting gun for the
first class at eleven. A chowder will
wind up the days sport and Sunday will
be devoted to cruising.
Entries include in the first class Flag
ship Spray, VICE Commodore Picker, La
Paloma. Macfarlane: Hawaii. Sorenson;
Gladys, Hebron Third Class: Myrtle,
Crozier; Malihini, Lyle; Wikiwiki,
Thompson; Ma1olo. Johnson; Irish, So
renson and Lyle; Kahuna and the Lei
manu-, Higgins.
The Gladys has repaired the slight
damages sustained on the Around Oahu
race. The starboard spreader broke off
but has been revealed and replaced
and the starboard topping lift having
also snapped off Makapuu new lines
have been set up on both sides. The
first class race on Saturday in the quiet
waters of Pearl Harbor should prove
a close contest with a good chance for
either the Hawaii or La Paloma to cap
ture the trophy.