The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-31
YACHT GLADYS WINS
THE ISLAND RACE


| race in the history of that sport in
Hawaiian waters terminated yesterdax
morning off the bell buoy at 1873 a. ma
in a victory for the little eight-tonl
sloop Gladys after a hard ought out
battle with her twenty-four- rival,
La Paloma. The race was around the
island of Oahu, some 120 odd miles, and
the two sIoops came within forty min
utes of each other on the round trip,
making the mileage in the excellent
time of: Gladys. 81 hrs. 40 minis. La
Paloma, p hrs. % minis.
The other yachts participating in the
Hawaii, Capt. Sorenson, and Spray,
Vice-Commodore Picker, finished in the
order named, the Helene crossing at
$3.50 yesterday morning, the Hawaii at
4:G9 and Spray at 900.
Given shore liberty at Haleiwa on
Saturday morning aftef the first lap
of the race, the crews took full advan-
tage of the hospitality of Manager
fTeu- WHO 1SIIled lIGBl dSIlOTS
in the big Indian canoe and introduced
them to his hosiery. They swan in
the harbor though most preferred the
big seventy-foot wide, tWelve-foot deep,
fresh water pool. They played tennis,
pool and billiards, they spread them
selves over the famous golf links as
players and lockers on and they would
have eaten the hotel bare had not a
bountiful supply been prepared in
readiness. AS evening came on all
danced in yachting regulation whites
on the broad lanais, after full justice
had been done to the excellent 1uau,
speeches made and toasts drank.
Moonlight bathing, strolling about the
lanais and padding in the canoes
rounded the night out into morning
and it was well into the dog watch be-
fore all hands turned in.
Sunday morning found everyone loath
to leave Haleiwa and the hotels hos
pitality and the regatta committee an
nounced the start home for in the
afternoon. But Yaguina oysters and
other specialties of the Haleiwa kitchen
delayed the shippers and their crews
till the hour was set for three. In the
morning after rounds of the links had
been made and the bathers were all
in FROM sea and pool, big panoramic
photograph of the yachts, the hotel and
all the guests was taken as souvenir
of a trip successful to it's smallest de-
tail.
Shortly before three all the yachts
had mainsails set and were hauled up
to their anchors. Vice-Commodore
Picker's Spray, the crew of which look
ed very ship-shape in regulation
blouses with Spray across their
chests, led out of the channel followed
by La Paloma, with the Gladys close
behind, then the Hawaii and finally
the flagship Helene.
The wind promised easterly at first
but turned to a trade once Kaena Point
was left behind. La Paloma and Gladys
went after each other tack for tack
along the shore to make certain of the
land breeze. The Helene stood up on
the first tack and stayed on it until
she dropped out of sight, Commodore
Whitney believing that by making one
long tack to sea and then a run home
down Oahu channel, he could fetch the
bell buoy soonest. The fortunes of
yachting failed him, however, though
he was pointing higher than many Of
the yachts and sailing we'll with them
as long as in company with the squad
ron The Hawaii got to windward of
the whole fleet for a while but fell
OH later and with the Helene out to sea
and Spray falling behind the race soon
settled down to La PaIoma versus
Gladys, the latter having thirty-five
minutes to the good on the first half
of the race
The wind placed the race under diff
ferent conditions Ia that of last year
when the Gladys - ed away from La
Paloma on everyENaek Once around
haena Point the Ereeze showed pros
poets of one longsSts3se hauled sail to
Mokapu Point aud 53ird Island, then
started sheets tdS1La kapuu and from
there run home 20 the Honolulu bell
buoy With startkd sheets and before
the wind La PalsfzsA had the heels of
the Gladys and id ws up to the latter
TO get such a lead to Makapuu that
Win the thirty 1--WE minutes to the |
good La Paloma coNd not catch her.
The big sloop proved hard to catch !
however. On one inshore tack she |
gained considerably on the Gladys and |
Hebron went close to the breakers 20 |
see where MacfarIane gained the squirt |
discovering strong current which the |
Falolna's willy skipper had taken ad-
vantage of,
mat settled it. From there on |
gladys and La Paloma sailed tack for
tack around the point and Law close |
hauled for far-off Bird Island. lighting
Tor every inch. Little by little the |
Gladys got the weather gauge and foot
by foot she gained hut Il p,ln.,na