The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-01
COOPER -
COMMODORE
The New Leader Of the
Hawaii Yacht
Club.

With Commodore Henry E. Cooper
at the helm of the Hawaii Yacht Clubs
affairs for the coming year, yachtsmen
anticipate a great season in the yacht
ing annals of the Territory. The past
year has been a successful one under
the enthusiastic commodoreship of H.
E. Picker, who retired last evening.
The annual business meeting of the
club was held in the office of the Ha-
waiian Hotel last night with about the
largest attendance in the clubs his
tory The report of the secretary
treasurer was presented and the club
then elected the following officers:
Commodore, Henry E. Cooper; vice
commodore, j. A Lyle; secretary
treasurer, 7. H. Petrie; measurer, Q.
L. Sorenson; port captain, James E.
Jaeger; regatta committee, L. o.
White. w. H. McInerny, c. T. Wilder;
directors, George F. Renton, George
Crozier, T w. Hebron, c. w. Macfar-
lane. Commodore H. E. Picker pre-
sided.
The members then adjourned to the
private banquetins room where the en-
olems of yachtdom We're conspicuous
ly displayed, the tables being arranged
in the form of u" Ex-Commodore
Picker presided as POSTMASTER, with
Commodore Cooper at his right. A
tasty menu was discussed. The speech
es were of a kind to show enthusiasm.
Mr. Picker in his address referred
to the enthusiasm manifested during
the past year and he hoped to see it
continued during the new regime. He
referred to the trans-Pacific race to
come and trusted that it would give
a boom to local yachting.
Commodore Cooper said that former
Commodore Picker was entitled to
great deal of creuit for the past years
work Twenty new members was a
showing any other commodore ought
to be proud of. The accommodation
which had been accomplished by Pick
failed.
Mr. Cooper said that he hoped the
club would resolve itself more into a
cruising, rather than "a racing, club.
With such a diversity of craft-iong,
short, broad. narrow, light and heavy
it is difficult to regulate them in
races If more cruises were planned it
would be to the advantage of the club.
The speaker remembered the Rabbit
Island cruise with interest He jok-
ingly said to eX-Commodore Macfar-
lane that if ne would take a corner
lot and an empty house in exchange
for a two-masted schooner yacht, he
was ready to enter into an agreement.
we want more boats,' was the bur-
den of Mr.. Cooper's appeal. The
trans Pacific yacht race, too. will be
an advantage TO all of US. 1t will be
an advantage to US to send a boat from
here to the Coast. That will answer
the criticism about cruising from here
to the Coast. Up there they look up
or the trip to Hawaii as sort of
sliding down hill, and going back, up |
hill work"
Commodore Picker then referred to |
the generous gift of 800 made to the |
club by c. A. Brown, a new member. |
Mr. Brown responding to a toast said |
no one in the islands was more afraid !
of a yacht than be. He remembered |
8 cruise twenty-five years ago with |
Doc" Monsarrat, who was then as
long but not as old, as he is now, when !
both went out in a yacht and We're |
overturned Doc could not swim, |
but they managed to hang on to the |
hull until rescued. That was the eX- |
tent of his (Brown's) yachting expert