The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-21
Log OF the Yacht Hawaii

long 120 deg. 81 min. w. There is no
sign of the trade winds so far but
there is almost d spanking breeze this
evening and we are logging nearly s
knots. The night is thick but there is
charm about it not found in the
calm beauty of last night. The sing
ing of the wind in the rigging has a
CHEEKY echo in our hearts and we are
happier than we have been for three
days. IF this keeps up we must surely
hit the trades tomorrow and then
Ho for the wind on the quarter with
the square sail and raffe set and the
log spinning merrily to the tune of
eleven knots an hour.
/ seem TO have inoculated everybody
aboard with the rhyming virus This
afternoon Bill was at the wheel. the
captain walking on the overhang. Ray
sleeping peacefully in "Seaman's
Home" and I seated in the cockpit
at peace with all the world. Bill was
peeved about Deep-sieep Daniel. Say"
he complained. ITO get that kid to do
anything you have to prod in between
the sleeps" This started the captain
who began to Jingle. He was followed
by Bill and. of course, / had to come
in. After. a time some method made
its appearance. The captain started
line. Bill came in with the second and
I produced a third. This is the result:
I sat in the cabin at lunch one day
I finished and asked for some more
ooh, Daniel" I said, please bring me
some bread
But the only reply was a snore,
Chorus
Oh. Deep-sleep Dan. such tired little
man
He yawns when he passes you the
cream
When he's sweeping up the floor
You can hear the beggar snore
For he's walking and he's talking in a
dream.
THE HAWAII IN A BREEZE.
Wednesday, July S.-Lat. % deg. OF
min N. long 123 deg. 50 min. w. Dis
tance 10 miles. And that is very much
more encouraging. 10 miles for the
days run with only twelve hours of
steady wind and our sheets hauled aft
all the time. Between s and $3.50 a. m.
we made exactly I-2 miles so that, if
the wind had held, we should have
been making miles an hour all day.
/ have felt the first real encourage
ment today since we started. Prog
nostications have been so pessimistical
aboard that I have been forced to take
the cheerful side and argue iearnedIy
with the others. 1T all depends on what
luck the other yachts have had. If
they ran into a good north wester
while we were becalmed off Clemente
Island, then they have a good days
start of us and it seems impossible
that we can make it up. If. however,
we are on fairly even terms, I feel
certain of victory.
We have not yet reached the trades
G3o p. MI but the wind Is gradually
hauling and we have our sheets slight
1y started This morning I saw her
in decent breeze for the first time
and 1 was greatly impressed with her
manner of going through it. There is
no trace of diving forward and aft her
wake is as clean as a mill race. Under
the lee counter where one usually finds
a hump of water, the sea is quite level
and the clean sweep Of her rise holds
back not so much as a pint. This
leads me to believe that when we do
get good breeze over the quarter with
her square sail and kites set she will
be extraordinarily fast. Even though
the other yachts be ahead a hundred
miles, if we can hold strong north
easter into Honolulu, I believe we can
catch them up.
We had a few little cforuses on
deck during the second dog-watch. Bill,
Ray, Harry and I. My voice resembles
a rusty fog horn, but I know enough
to hold the tune and can bluff out a
bass in great shape. A very effective
one was Swing round sweet wester-
ly' to the tune of
Swing low sweet chariot then
One, two, three, four
There's wind but I wish there were
more
Elm, zwei, drei. vfer
The outlook is rather drear
Zip, see, sam, see
Join in the chorus with me
Some captains are dest
But they often get left
And. they won't be one. two or three.
The metre is a trife ragged. but our
voices are nothing if not plastic and
we easily made it fit in.
was awakened about 4:30 this
by a loud order TO 'Douse the
mainsail'' I trundled out on deck ex-
pecting TO find the ravages of some
sudden disaster. Fortunately it was
only the block of the main tOpsail
sheet that had given way. This had
been made fast to the end Of the gaff
BIZ a wire Selling which had chafed
through. 7 saw a fine exhibition OF
sailorising when Captain Harris jump
ed on the boom and, with both spars
swaying crafty. hammered off the old
wire and put in shackle almost be-
fore I knew he had left the deck Six
minutes was the elapsed time between
the giving Of the order to douse and
the word DELAY" on the peak pur-
chase. That. I think you will agree.
was going some"
To r~v- sF-a farrv husky and harm