The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-26

iboat under the WIRE" All were wei
aboard and tanned cuticie told an elo
Iquent tale of the healthy exposure oc
casioned by the trip.
| The Lurline made an EXCEPTIONAL,
fine trip of IL, the actual time IL day!
. hours, being much better than Com
modore Sinclair had expected. But fo
running INFO a calm off the islands anc
having to contend with awkward cur
rents, the yacht would have made tn,
trip in DIT least "a hours better time.
Fine weather was experienced
Throughout the voyage and the averag,
daily knottage was POI. The best rur
was 265 knots, a record for The boats.
Shortly after the start the Lurline
was becalmed off Catalina Island a
circumstance which greatly exasperat-
ed Commodore Sinclair for he had per.
force to lie and hear his reef points
rattle and watch the Anemone disap-
pear as the dusk came along.
Three days out. however, the trades
were met with and they blew true and
strong almost till port was made
Twenty-one hundred miles were sailed
on one tack.
The only mishap of the voyage oc-
CURED at 8 p. m. yesterday, when a
sharp squall from ESE, carried away
la spinnaker BOOM
Commodore Sinclair demonstrated by
his clever finish that his knowledge of
local waters is remarkably good. His
coming to port hugging the reef the
way he did eXacted the universal praise
and admiral ation of local Corinthians.
Aboard the Lurline were Commodore
H. H. Sinclair, A. w. Sinclair, DR.. Mil
bank Johnson, Eugene Overton and j.
S. Greene.
A. w. Sinclair is a son of the genial
commodore and gives EVIDENCE, from a
yachting standpoint at least, of being
chip of the old block.
The Lurline carries twelve men, all
told, and four of these are guests. The
owner and navigator is H. H. Sinclair
and James Mexican is the first mate.
Teddy Olsen is second mate. and the
steward is AL McCann. The crew is
not a large one. Four men did the
heavy work of the cruise and, as Nc
Kean says, they are all "Dutchmen."
At sea "Dutchman' means everything
from over the big pond and the four
men who bumped the local schooner
on her 2O00-mile trip are John Mielle-
men. Oscar Frederickson, Rudolph
Schmidt and Ole Johansen.
The amount of canvas that the Lur-
line can show when 1t comes to taking
the trouble to set 1t is greater than
most yachtsmen would credit. and
when it came to balloon jibs and spin
makers it was found that Commodore
Sinclair did not enter this big contest
in half-prepared way. He has had the
in earlier years of a long
education in the New York methods,
and apart from actual practice IN the
best of schools he is close reader on
the subject and keeps himself thorough
ly up to date in the last new wrinkle
that appears in the neighbOrhood of
Sandy Hook and Marblehead. The fact
that La Paloma does not carry a bal
loon maintopmast staysail probably
cost her dear when II came to match
Ing against a full New York outfit.
Commodore Sinclair does not carry
any professional captain. as he il his
Dwn skipper, but has two mates, and
II these, Teddy Olsen. looks like the
right stun. When the call was for
all hands and the cook" Al Mccain
was found as good on deck as In the
Of pancake This steward
explained last night that as the Lur-
Inc only carries 75O gallons Of fresh
Sater, the sea water was used as much
ls possible. ana for this reason the
;alley sink has faucets for both fresh
ina salt water
The great transpaclho yacht race II
me that marks an era, not alone IN
he annals 0f a great sport, but in the
'ittory ~ Hawaii n has been, per-
aps, scanuly appreciated by the people
4 this region that this race ~ first
lass vessels o. Honolulu h tho most
Important yachting Tournament ~ the
Whole world in iha Year 1900. n 10
hr nny one among large vessels
lhich " ~ Rn international character.
n1 IN which lhe competing ypphis
WYfrse FrfHi oof1u spaces
The residents m Honolulu can not he
llnd ~ me hri lhli Freaf ocetn yachi
aces hHNr been greet facinfs flr Een-
fal FusCfrs snd ihai ih.s efrnl h doinF
nr ltaNpii phai has been done ~
ihefr Nhln ihr interest " ihF World
Hh lHfn concentrated