The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-27

side and Diamond Head on the other.
1t becomes the outright property of the
! winner. A feature will be made of the
! presentation, and the prettiest of all
the bellies of Honolulu may hand it TO
the lucky skipper. The race will be an
island event, not an incident, and
everyone is enthusiastic already.
After the race viii come the well
come. There will be luaus (feasts iii
native style), flower wreaths for vic
tors and vanQuished, the sights of the
island to see under escort of the is
land yachtsnen, a visit to their cozy
headquarters in the big inland lochs of
Pearl Harbor, eight miles up the coast
a regatta there of Hawaiian smaller
class yachts, with a big chowder, a
dance, and a pow-wow, many enter
tainments that are even now being
planned for the visitors in the way
that only the deniZens of the Paradise
of the Pacific can plan and carry out.
There will be none to make the re-
turn voyage, even though it brings
them back to home, sweet home, who
will not carry the glamor of the isles
With him, it's summer seas and verdant
heights, waving palms and cooling
breezes. its flowers and festivals, and
long and determine to, some day, re-
turn. 1t may, indeed, be safely
prophesied that this race will prove but
the forerunner of others and of more
adventurous, if less arduous, cruises,
amid the archipelagoes that lie baslx-
ing ever III the summer seas that lie
below the tropics of Cancer.
Minor races are planned in which
the Hawaiian sea-going yachts will
go, r1fNH-t .N1Yev
around Oahu from Honolulu, with
spinnakers set--a break at the tiny
harbor of Waialua, with its fine hotel,
sea- bathing, golfng and fishing-and
then a long thrash to windward in
the tumbling seas of the windward and
north'ard coast, serrated by a hundred
peaks that thrust their fre-tortured
pinnacles upward, guardians of en-
chanted wales. by and between vol
canic islands, the tops of which seem
to lift, as a myriad observation-disclosures
soar and swirl in startled protesta-
ton of a hail. After the beat comes
started sheets and a final run home
again. a hundred and twenty miles
of exhilarating sport over every point
of sailing, a course not TO be beaten
anywhere. Then another favorite is
land course is planned from Honolulu
to Lahaina, on the island of Maui
where half a century ago the big fleets
of wbalers used to call. Here is an
up-channel race of seventy-five miles
to windward, and spanking run home
again.
For the farewell a contest has been
planned, from Honolulu to Hilo. stu
ated ON the big island Of Hawaii
trip of tN1 hundred miles. This will
give a chance to see the volcano, be-
sides providing a welcome opportunity
tc the island yachtsmen TO escort the
visitors part way home. Hilo being
some one hundred and fifty miles
nearer California than is Honolulu In
these races the yawl Gladys, sloops
Helene, Hawaii. Spray and Kapolei
with the schooner La PaIoma may
be expected to enter. There will be
cups offered as special prizes for these
events.
The race is, as it deserves, rapidly
becoming popular, not merely on this
coast but in the east. Sir Thomas
Upton may give a special trophy in