The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-13
YACHTING
RESULTS
Sloop Hawaii Wins in
First CIass---"Spray"
Goes Ashore.

| The yachtsmen had a very fine outing
on Saturday and Sunday, what with
races, chowders, running ashore and
other adventures. Vice Commodore
| Picker had hard luck in running on a
reef off Fords Island just as he stood a
more than good chance of winning the
| first class race in the Spray while So
renson and Lyle landed two victories,
winning both the first and third class
| races.
| The squadron held rendezvous at the
Peninsula on Saturday morning, the
club house being gayly decorated with
signal bunting and the club burgess.
The wind was not all that could be de-
| sired, being northerly and light, so the
| first class race was postponed until the
afternoon. The smaller craft got ready
| for a start, however, and started off
| for the channel course about eleven
while two of the big fellows, the Gladys
and flagship Spray, went along to keep
| them company.
| In the third class We're the Irish, So
renson & Lyle; Malihini, Lyle; Wikiwi-
| XII, Thompson; and Myrtle, Crozier. The
| speedy Irish, of longer lines and SUI
perior canvas, gave the rest of her
class a handicap but managed to keep
ahead of it in the light winds and
smooth water, coming in winner after
lengthy race shortly after two o'clock.
In the fourth class the Malolo, John
son, gave the Skip, L. de L. Ward, and
Leimanu, HoggIns, a handicap which
enabled the Skip to win. Captain john
son protested somewhat against having
to allow the Skip any handicap and his
demurrer seems somewhat justified on
the record showing of last season when
the Skip beat out the Malolo over the
Peninsula course in fiat time. Leimanu
failed to finish.
1t was three and after when the first
raters got off to a beautiful start: La
Paloma, Macfarlane; Gladys, Hebron;
Spray, Vice Commodore Picker, and
Hawaii, Sorenson. The original course
was changed owing to the state of the
wind and set to twice around Ford's
Island and return to the Peninsula.
There was some nnix-up, it seems, over
delivering the new directions and the
Spray got the changed course at sec
ond hand and misunderstood it, round
ing Ford's Island from the Eva side as
a consequence instead of keeping it to-
starboard.
Spray was given twenty minutes
time allowance and the Hawaii eight,
just enough to allow her to pull off the
first prize with fifty seconds to spare,
thus justifying the Advertisers pre-
diction that either the Hawaii or La
Paloma win. La Paloma rounded out
the prophecy by coming in second, one
minute and twenty seconds ahead of the
Gladys.
After the even start La Paloma, Gla-
dys and Hawaii started around Ford's
Island with Spray going the other way,
misunderstanding regatta committee
chairman Roth's efforts with the me-
gaphone.
AS the yachts passed each other in
rounding, Spray was seen to be holding
up well under her gaff topsail and Com
modore Picker, Sonny Cunha and Bat
tersby, constituting her crew. We're jul
bilant when they found themselves
rounding the mauka end of the island
for the second time with apparently
plenty of time to spare. Commodore
Picker reckons that at the time he went
ashore he had thirty-five minutes to
get home in, counting his handicap, and
the time the other yachts finished. They
should have made the lineain that time
and if he had not been ruled out for
going round the wrong way it looked
like the Spray s stein.
But the best laid plans of yachting
men oft land ashore and bump g-r-r-r-
l.;
a falling tide.
Efforts seemed useless and the crew
took down the mainsail. Meantime the
rest of them had finished and taken
down sails before they realized that
, the Commodore was away behind
schedule and must be in pilikia. Cap
tain Hebron put up his mainsail and
with Mr. Shaw went off to render as
sistance. followed eventually by all the
club members in various craft. It was
no good. the Spray was hard and fast
with the tide still dropping and finally
the Gladys took Cunha over 10 Nc
Crews landing in time to take the
seven train to town.
! Chowder was ready at the clubhouse
and all hands went back to supper 1eav-
ing Battersby in lonely vigil on the
Spray now heeled over on one side. AS
| IS ever the case win the local COrlntn-
| ians, the chowder went off with merry
talk, yarns and songs. BY midnight
all were asleep save Picker who went
off in his tender back to the Spray TO
take advantage of the high tide at two
O'Clock. 1t was no go. however, and he
and Battersby slept on a cabin floor at
an angle of forty-fve degrees.
Noon yesterday saw the Spray still
stuck and Picker gloomily contemplat-
ing the prospect of unloading ballast,
toting it ashore to Ford's Island in his
small tender and reloading after the
yacht was off. DR.. McGrew's servant
rowed over to the Inarooned ones with
cordial invitation to lunch but the
tide was flowing due to be full at two
thirty and the Commodore preferred
freedom to food just then. He swung
ont the main boom and by dint of rock