The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-25

attained the northing she had tried for
three times, and then head winds
drove her back to the south and neces-
STATED a three hundred mile beat back
up the coast
Owing to the non-arrival of the ex-
pected log, any comments on the courss
taken are speculative. but the letters
received from Mr.. Macfarlane by Com
modore Hebron and others bear out the
supposition that unusual head winds
and more or less rough weather were
encountered in the voyage of the
plucky little craft AS was to be ex-
pected there were some rough periods
during the 90 days sailing, the worst
of which is described in a letter to j.
To- Lutted written at sea when % days
out. In it Mr. Macfarlane says:
We'll here l am, away out in mid
Pacific, being tossed about from sea to
sea and from pillar to post, and | can
tell you that / am getting sick of it.
For the first ten days We got good
slant. although we got the tail end of
two gales, and as usual it had to come
on in the middle of the night, but, by
careful handling of her sails we
brought her through. But each one at
the wheel had to be dashed, which will
give you an idea of what we had to
go through.
''On the 10th day out we got a good
slant of wind which allowed US to head
direct for San Francisco, and at that
time we We're HOO miles from there.
We could have made the entire run in
fifteen days, but to show You and give
you an idea of what luck we have had
will make you a rough drawing of our
~ 1T -
going to take all of 20 days to make
the trip, for ever since we have left
never once have we had a full "a
hours run of steady wind. 1t has
been Gains and head winds all the
way.
Everybody on the yacht is well and
in good health but it is mighty cold,
thermometer 30 degrees. The yacht is
pretty well knocked out and will have
to go on the ways for overhauling.
a record of the daily runs for the
first seventeen days has been received,
the longest distance having been COW
cred on the second day out and the
shortest on the seventh This record
of miles is: 122 IA 1913, As, 165, 123.
43, 165, 123, So. so. SO. rs, 137. 6S, 90,
los. 1856 1873 and no. From then on to
the end of the trip the average daily
run was about 80 miles
All things considered the Hawaiian
yacht made the run in good time and
in q manner which demonstrates con-
clusively that there is no particular
hardship to be expected nor no impossi-
bilities TO be overcome on the Honolulu
TO San Francisco sail
HOPES OF THE MAPLE LEAF.
The presence of the two representa-
tives of the Hawaiian Yacht Club on
the Coast and the final conclusion to
start the. race from San Pedro on June
II ought to revive the interest in the
event which had received a setback
from San Francisco disaster Owing to
that came the message from Como
dore McLaren canceling the entry OF
the Canadian yacht Maple Leaf but
Commodore Hebron has hopes that Mr.
McLaren will reconsider the matter
and have the Vancouver yacht a San
Pedro when the race begins. Yester-
day ne cabled McLaren to the effect
that all was now arranged for the race
and that there would be much dis
should the withdrawal Of
the Maple Leaf from the contest be
URrSiSted in