The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-21
JACK LONDON'S YACHT
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tSoHtlHued rr0In rage One.1
at the main was London's private
! signal, big white "S" on a crimson
ground
The deck was so Uttered with ropes,
spars, cans of provisions, sacks of pota-
/, toes and other impedimenta of a long
| cruise, as to be almost impossible.
Here, lay coil of fshline with metal
lure attached; there, were piled sealed
eases of rations for lifeboat use The
deck was as dirty as sealer's
| THOSE ABOARD.
Captain Eames extended a hearty
welcome He is patriarchal looking
man with snowy hair and beard and
eye as keen as a hawks. Eames is an
| amateur yachtsman and is making his
first really long voyage.
Stolz was born on Kauai and his
father was shot and killed by a leper,
whom he was helping to capture, years
ago. He is an athlete of renown and
declares that the trip from Frisco was
the best fun of his life. He will prob
ably remain in the islands.
Martin Johnson, the cook, Joined the
Sharks company by accident, as 1t
were. In faraway Kansas he read of
London's projected cruise and the
glamor of the thing caught him. He
wrote to the author, offering his SER
vices in any capacity, and to his in
tense surprise and delight received
the Shark in San Francisco. He is an
engraver by trade.
THE CAPTAINS STORY.
We've come $500 miles in twenty
seven days." said the captain, land
while not tired of the trip must say
that land looks mighty good to me.
We went south in order to fall in with
the rdolphins and flying fish and lat
terIy bore southwest for the wind as
far as the nineteenth longitudinal. We
loafed along the whole way, with more
wind the first four days out than we
had all the rest of the trip. The voy-
age was singularly devoid of incident.
Three days out a full-rigged ship was
sighted, after which nothing was seen
tiif Sunday, when we saw a steamer
hull down.
A DEAD SEA
ut was a dead sea as far as lie
went-the deadest ever sailed in. we
saw no dolphins and very few flying
fish Once we saw a school of whales
and once a small shark came noslns
around A hook baited with ham was
put overheard, but the shark woulun
touch it. A day or so ago we hooKeu
a goney and brought the bird on deck
and photographed it, after which we
let it go. Although we had a line out
all the time, we caught no fSn.
1--WE got the wind all the way from
the northwest to the northeast after
the first four or five days, but the
breeze was generally light. and at times
we didn't log fifty knots a day. Our
power was out of commission, so we
could do nothing but sail. The auxil-
airy gasoline engine went wrong before
we started, and we will have it fixed
lere.
STEERED HERSELF.
1.-THE vessel steered herself most of
he way This can be done on any
hing from on the wind TO four points
m the quarter. I am fully satisfied
With the Shark. She couldn't be bet
er. She is a fine sea-boat, as strong
Is could be built, and right up to
Ioyd's +reouirements
I'VE sighted Maui, five points on the
,ort bow and 100 miles away, on FRI
lay. We were then coming up from
he south and had sailed to miss Ha-
vail and strike Maui which we did to
nicely If we'd had "a road we /
ouIdn't have come any straighter. on
unday morning we were off Koko {
Head. and I must say that / was
cared of drifting in to the reef. the
urrent was setting so strongly ana ;
here was no wind. We came to port {
ractically broadside on and under no l
teerage way {
THE SHARK.
The Shark is thirty tons gross and
m tons net; fifty-one feet in length, I
fteen and five-tenths feet beam and
even and five-tenths feet in depth OF
old. Her foremost is much taller '
ian the main and she carries a big c
owsprit. Her deck is flush and living S
partments occupy the whole vessel .
ON stem to stern. Her dividing
Ilkheads form her into several water
ght compartments. Her ketch rig
axes the working of sails an easy
after. The vessel is lighted with c
ectricity which is furnished by a
nall dynamo run by a small engine.
fourteen-foot launch and a life-boat
e carried on deck. E
The Iife-boat was all ready furnished !,
it'll supplies and water and is ready
r any emergency that may arise. =
The saloon and interior woodwork
the Shark are crude and implanted.
was hard to get anything done in y
IN Francisco and London was anxious
be up and away.
THE WATER USED. L
A thousand gallons of water were
ken aboard in San Francisco but only