The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-21
iREE YACHTS CROSSED
FINISHING LINE YESTERDAY
Crrom Mondays Advertiser.)

ed at clock, % minutes, and 80 SEQ
onds, yesterday afternoon, when the
yacht Hawaii crossed the finish line
abreast Diamond Head, 10 days, 3
hours, % minutes and so seconds after
the starting gun was fred at San Pedro.
OF course the winner of the race was
1 certain early yesterday morning when
the tim" allowance of the other entries
expired. after the arrival of the Lur-
line. The arrival of the Gwendolyn III
little before 10 clock yesterday
morning and of the Lady Maud at l
o clock, fixed the order of the contest
ants I'm the race. Allowing for handi-
caps the four yachts take position in
the order in which they arrived-Lur-
I line. first; Gwendolyn ii, second; Lady
Maud, third, and Hawaii, fourth.
vi was really remarkable race, and
thht in great many respects. On
voyage of 2232 miles the four yachts
starting at the same time reached this
I5ort all within n period Of thirty hours,
;And three of them within a period of
,ssix hours. This shows a remarkable
equality among the boats that made it
n great race 1t is probable that there
have never been yacht races over so
long q course where the finish was so
i dull the sting of defeat.
Where it was so close that a slight
advantage of wind or weather or gear
or crew might win the race, no naviga-
tor who has given conscientious service
need feel any reproaches.
Captain Harris returns more strong.
1y convinced than ever that the Hawaii
is great craft in any but light breezes.
"We 1bst the race right at the start, ~
\ he saif, "when we were becalmed and
\ idle n9ar Ste. Clemente, while the other
/ vesself all got away, $50 miles to the
westward of us. They caught the
breezA before we did. 1t was one of
the accidents and chances of the game.
8 But From the time we caught breeze
two{ days out, we gained steadily. Of
couI1se, the Hawaii needs tuning up.
We lwere jeen days going up and
sonefe days in San Pedro harbor without
having the yachts bottom cleaned. 1t
Isl surprising how much growth there is
on her bottom. You can It put pin
Jetween the shells, they are so thick
ickn her bottom.
If we Could only have got a good
Freeze on her beam how she would have
gonel The Hawaii is all right. She is
4 fine boat Her steadiness is some.
thing wonderful. She behaves we'll.
y On the wind she is marvel. aul
"The trip has been good one. ]
have nothing but praise for those who
/ were with me on the trip. We did our
best We did not get the trade winds
Until the tenth, and we never got them
Strong. / believe that had we gone
farther south so as to, get the trades
Ihore on our beam we would have done
/ Better. But we did not go farther south
y because of the advice of the wind chart
4 we carried.
"When we sighted Halawa, Molokai
! we found that our chronometer was
] three minutes out. I expected to pick
l up Haawa at six O'Clock last night
Instead it was midnight. We made a
good landfall, all right, but we did moi
make it as soon as we expected by six
8 hours"
4 The Lady Maud had just beer
brought to the Nuuanu street wharf
yesterday afternoon when the whistl,
sounded for the sighting of the Hawaii
4 The launch which had just brought the
I Lady Maud in, started out again Will
n the Yacht Committee aboard, augment
ed by number of others who were in
ter9sted in the Hawaii. The launch me
i sr;st an I've arma, ;as+ bad hoo,
n non li l., .hoso u .hp 1 Iann m a. 81,
asreeu VI y t Hnnt ~ ' H. IA AZ H.;
enpen'e on;n nn aionna;do tho uo.ht
80 o,, s W. aiJ uarr ne al, nai, .,
~ 'i No had 1s soon anE 90 tha oth"r yachts s
~ nv naI 81 ~ any W w IN I'M ~ se
1s .nos ~ T., ~" 49,, Nv. ." H., 80,
~ moorea IN 'u 4 halpo o; nai .,, Janp
eu az once 70 .ne oonclusl9h Una, .he.
nau not yeI peeh s.shIeu, anu Una
IheIqiore the 1awai was winner
both captain anu crew Iounu expression
Tor tthelr Joy IN merry dancing am
4 eapefs on lhe deck-untii they were uh
aeSsiVeu.
.n< ~ ne countries ooaroeu ehe yache am
the time me hawail was IN TN
lr9or there had peen much interchang
interest between yache ere" ah'
Tmmittee'
There was big crowd at the whar