The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-01
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SEATTLE CREW |
APPRECIATED
City That Refused TO Help Her
YachtSmen Before Race
Now EnthuseS.

The following clipping from the Sc
attic Post Intelligencer j part of a
very enthusiastic, if SOMEWHAT incdr-
rect story of the cruise If the GwendIo-
lyn IL with full page on the froht
of the second section dvoted to pie
lures of the yacht an, the intrepid
young sailors who mannd her.
Il is pleasant to motto that Seattle
is at last giving her hos some credit
for the wonderful Vorl they did in
making so long trip n so smallI q
boat and carrying off tn second prize
an the great transpacifcraee BefPre
the race Seattle poked IS nose in fhe
air and declined to hav anything to
with it. When the acht. teac bed
San Pedro and, owing tolelay in start-
ing the race, was put toa very he3vy
extra expense, and an appeal was mkde
to their home city for al in this Mat
ter, they were turned don. Now, hpw-
ever, that they have eturned after
nearly winning the rat and PROVEN
themselves veritable heles, of course
Seattle wants to come iIAvith the usual
not air that costs little al sounds well:
At noon of the Fourfof July Prhsi-
dent Roosevelt, in Warrington, pre3sed
the electric button TIL fred the SHIRT
ing gun at San Peb. Lady Mhud
crossed the line frstfollowed cloysly
by the Gwendolyn II.The Lurline Iand
the Hawaii, both ofthem big oefan-
going schoOners, folloRd. The Hawaii,
built by the famd rowninshFeld,
dropped out of sight.o the southr ard
on the first day. O the second iday
the Lurline, splend goer in fight
winds, disappeared 10 the disthnce
ahead with every pieeof canvas draw
inr. For ninety-sixbours the II4ady.
Maud, with her ownelCapt. Kyle, and.
his wife on board, sded along. within
signziing distance Ok tne Uswesl,fclynH
IT.. but gradually. the freshe hing
breeze; the little Settle boat brew
away,
An amateur who Loo at the ehsArted
route of the four boa: across the Pa
cife viii exclaim ihriably, Why
don't they 60 in a strght line instead
of making such serawltpider traekss
If one takes enough trlble to hgHt up
an explanation from old sea- going
captain, the latter wilprobably straw
forth from dusty corn tine-stAined
map and thereon win noted the pre-
vailing winds, current and other I'M
formation of value 1.-THE navigator.
To so plot the courses to take the
most advantage from se variation Of
winds and currents isle aim of leach
skipper. Hence the sper-like sc3awls.
200 Miles in Days.
The delay at San Ped made it 1eces-
sary for Henke to rarn to Sdattle
after the race by steam. To con lplete
the crew for the reth trip, a nov
member was shipped. ibis was Capt. |
Tornston, skipper OF the co$sting /
schooner Ludlow, whaas made ls2 !
trips from San Pedro teuget Sound in
the last thirty years. His knowledge
of the local waters waargely r@spon
.sible for the exeellenoosition which
the Gwendolyn III. obtah at the start.
The 2eOO miles was de in ffteen
DAYS, one of the most marketable rec
ords ever attained. 7 trades blew
constantly from twentgo thirty five
miles an hour, and Capt.edfern drove
the gallant craft untilyery amber
vibrated like bow stri Imagine a
Puget Sound amateur gOs b low with
thirty-mile breeze towing astern
till it required five hando bulge the
spinnaker. 4 boom tacs saved The
awful wrench of freque iibes. The
following seas sucked ink the Stern
so that a eoncave wall F ter foot (
high hung constantly Aended over
the taffrail Under the rs the keas !
boiled up like eafdrofad the -fric-
tion of the halliards agist the mast I