The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-25

that his yacht was the first Of the !
racers to arrive. Free pratique having |
been given, the committee soon board |
ed Sthe Lurlne and welcomed the !
yachtsmen. Fire works from the stern !
of the vessel i'm token of victory were
fired and the race was run over again |
many times in the cabin. Meanwhile |
the Waterwltch had made fast to the
yacht and was towing her into the har-
Dor. She was towed to the Alakea
slip and anchored while the yachtsmen
were taken ashore in a launch, landed
at the boat landing and taken thence
to the Hawaiian Hotel .
A huge crowd gathered at the wharves
and cheered the yacht as she came into
anchor. A bugler on board of the L. S.
S. Manning saluted the -acht by giving
several appropriate bugle calls. Eu
gene Overton of the yacht replied to
the calls. He had been coached on the
way down by Louis Vetter so that he
could do so properly. The crew of the
Lurline is composed of six men, fonr
seamen and a first and second mate.
Aside from the crew there is on board
Commodore Sinclair the owner and
master of the yacht, \. w. Sinclair son
of the Commodore, Eugene Overton,
members of the South Coast Yacht Club
Louis Netter of Yuma who came to
make the trip pleasant with his ready
wit, DR.. Millbank Johnson and j. 5.
Greene.
The trip was a very pleasant one only
one mishap during the entire time and
that was on the afternoon of the last
day, her spinnaker boom was carried
away. Louis Vetter, who is more at
home on land than on sea informed an
enquirer ernestly that the "spanker
boom" had been lost.
The only craft sighted on the entire
voyage was a steamship, believed to
be one of the Matson line, probably the
Hilonian heading northeast. She ran
out of her course a half mile and salut-
ed to which the yacht replied by Dip
ping her ensign. That was at $3.50
o'clock of the afternoon of June q.
The yachtsmen appreciated the cour-
tesy shown by the liner.
1--WE had a glorious trip" said Com
modore Sinclair, Every thing was fine
! Our send off to begin with was splendid
! An immense crowd was present at San
I Pedro and on the same day that we
! left there was a race around Catalina
island in which a large number of
| craft took part All the yachts in both
races started together and there were
nine of us to get away. The break
water was black with people All were
cheering and waving us good bye and
! the sight was one not to be forgotten.
1.-THE last we saw of the La Paloma
was off the island of Catalina. She
was becalmed. had warned Clarence
to keep away from there but he was
! probably there before he knew it. He
was still there when it was dark.
I'VE had a great trip and I am glad
to be back in Honolulu for visit
The La Paloma was sighted by the
steamer Mariposa on the fifth day out.
She was then about $50 miles further
from Honolulu than the Lurline.
The whereabouts of the AnemOne is
still to be learned. While the Lurline
and the La Paloma were beciamed she
disappeared from view.
1t was reported that the time made
by the Lurline was u days and five
hours. The exact time from the mo-
ment she crossed the starting line till
she crossed the finishing line was L
days nine hours IS minutes and So sec
onds, and is arrived in this way: The
starting gun was fired at noon and the
Lurline crossed the line % seconds later
She finished at 90 minutes past O'Clock
From the moment of crossing the start
ing line to the moment of crossing the
finishing line, the time that elapsed as
shown by the yachts chronometer, was
twelve days, 9 hours, So minutes ant
35 seconds,
The yachtsmen are being entertained
by the yacht race committee Yester.
day was a quiet day and the men were
glad of the chance to rest up.