The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-08
SPORTS
YACHTSMEN
URGE RACE
CommodoreSincIairsays
No Postponing
Wanted.


Letters received by members of the
Yacht Race Committee frop interested
yachtsmen on the Coast have complete
ly done away with whatever lingering
suspicion there might have been that
perhaps after all the big sporting event
would have to be Indefinitely postponed
Commodore Sinclair. of the South Coast
Yacht Club, owner of the club flagship
the schooner Lurline. under date of
April "a writes Commodore Hebron
urging that the race be sailed by all
means. He had consulted many of the
yachtsmen of the Coast and found
them unanimously OF the opinion that
there should be no postponement fur
Their than that to allow the Anemone
to prepare for the contest
1t has been settled that Commodore
H E. Cooper will go to the Coast in
the Alameda to look after that end
of the race, and meeting of the race
committee will be held tonight to set
tie the final details and give the last
instructions to the Commodore.
the event attracts more and more at
tention from the publications of the
Mainland. the sporting journals. and
more particularly those devoted to
aquatics, devoting much space to the
first big Pacific ocean race.
In the current number of Boating"
Wilbur Bassett discusses the technical
questions involved in the race between
IA iSai
suggested by Commodore Sinclair,
which he refers to in discussing the time
allowance, has been adopted and will
be part of the conditions Of the race.
The following is part of Mr.. Bassett's
article:
The start of the race has been post
poned to May 10, and the entries.
though not numerous, insure a good
and representative race. Once outside |
the bay at San Francisco the yachts |
may expect a stirring half-hour across |
the bar, and then with an indicated |
northwest wind may lay their course. |
This course will probably be north
westerly until the northeast trades are |
picked up, which should be in the |
of 80 n. latitude. They |
should be reached in two or three days,
and once they are picked UP the course
nay be laid for the islands, with the
wind on the starboarG quarter and
spinnakers and balloons drawing well.
tsSpeculation as to the time in which
he passage will be made is more GER
ain than in the case of transatlantic
aces by reason of the known charac-
er of the weather which will be met.
Many of the early packets made the
western passage iii seven days, under
he most favorable conditions, and the
yachtsmen look conservatively to a
en- to twelve-day passage.
considerable comment has been
made on the proposed time allowance,
which is stated as one hour per foot
# length for the entire distance, the
ength to be computed by adding to
he /. W. |. one-half the total over
lang. Commodore Sinclair in a letter
o the racing committee calls attention
O the results of the race for the En-
'eror's Cup in support of his view that
cean race in which time allowance
whatever. He cites the 1905 cruise of
he Brooklyn Yacht Club from New
-ork to Norfolk, as the only other
cean race in which time allowance
as been given and the known fact
hat was made as an inducement to the
mailer boats.
THE following table and comment
rom his letter support his views: .