The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-07-24

yonr harbor master, boarded the Lur-
line outside on my arrival, he said
Welcome home, and that is tine vel
come you always give me. What
would You expect but that the LurIine
would hurry here. She has been here
four times before and needed no Ha-
waii to herd her to these shores.
Mr.. Sinclair then offered his trophy
for perpetual cup to be raced for,
provided another was not offered by
one whom he did not name, but whom !
everyone supposed to be Sir Thomas
Upton. He praised the boys of tie
Gwendolyn II and expressed hope
that they would carry the news of the
race throughout the Northwest and |
possibly drive the yachtsmen of San
| Francisco into the next race. He ex.
pected, he said, that when the Hawaii
had been properly tuned and tested,
that she would be sent up again fully
equipped to wrest the honors from the
| Lurline and all other yachts. For the
defeat of the Hawaii there was no one
to blame. The yacht had been pluckily
entered in the race when there had
been no opportunity to try her and
under such conditions no yacht, could
be expected to do her best. "You
have good sailors here and in the Ha.
wall you have winning yacht, once
I Lax a,,l a -
next race comes you will find that the
South Coast Yacht, Club has hearty
and sincere welcome for you and for
your yacht"
i At the conclusion of his address, the
Commodore was cheered, while the or.
chestra played Aloha De in expression
of the aloha felt in Honolulu for the
} Lurline and her owner.
THE GWENDoLYN TROPHY.
: Commodore Cooper expressed the
pleasure it gave him to present the
handsome second trophy to the owners
of the Gwendolyn II, the boat from the
North built by the hands of the boys
who sailed her. He called upon Lloyd
! B. johnson, the senior owner, to re.
: spond, who was greeted with cheers as
he rose.
Mr.. johnson said that it gave him
: pleasure to accept the trophy in the
o same spirit in which it had been given
The boys of the Gwendolyn were GLAD
to be here, glad to meet the people OF
Honolulu and glad that their boat haC
s made good. He gave the credit for the
+ showing made to Captain Redfern and
expressed the hope that the next time
. the Elliot Bay Yacht Club was repre-
t sented it would be by large schoone
1 yacht, worthy of going up against tn,
n Lurline. He feared, he said, that wheI
he and his crew returned to the Scum,
and showed their trophy they woult
- need bigger hats He would like t,
q khave, he declared race from Ha
:. waii to San PEDRO, run that woult
test the seamanship of the crews bette
u than the run down, which was Xix
st running steamboat, straight scoot
lie "But it was a run that made hard worl
! for us, handling that big stick" h,
added. 1t was case of four hour
+ on and four hours off, with some o.
ID the boys wanting to know where tn,
n four hours off came in. &
NO SORE SPOTS IN HONOLULU
;. Chairman Wilder then called upol
"a l.. A. Thurston, ''a yachtsman from
70 the old world. who would sail anythil,
y from a surfboard to a mud scow.o
d, Mr.. Thurston said that he had no
Vi expected TO be called on to talk agains
- the Pacific Ocean, nor to be describe
~ as a mud-scow skipper. His first yacht
Z, ing had been the winning of a tub rae
re in Honolulu harbor against the bes
r tub sailors of the city, while his rea
yachting experience began in 1874, a
: a result of which he was as bald-head
: ed as Commodore Sinclair.
n "We are all glad that the race
over,' he said, "and l want to tel
you that there are no sore spots in He
nolulu because the Hawaii did not VIII
We all wanted her to win and believ
that she will win yet. We are goin
to take the ballast out of her and max
y a spinnaker out of it for the next rae
b which l hope will be from here, a rae
B to the windward and not to the le-
n ward.
n yachting is grand sport. Wha
b makes a man feel like ginger mel
n than beng anoat, IN tub, or mu
L scow, or even the Lurline-no offen'
to you, Mr.. Sinclair. And is it no
\ after all, the best part of it to kno
/ that we are all getting acquainted
X Three years ago we knew of Seatt
4 as place where the lumber came fro
z and Los Angeles as the spot where NJ
II Waldron brought his oranges from 81
b now we are getting acquainted wit
Il each other, and with acquaintan,
r comes liking, and we are learning thu
there are good fellows everywhere al
good places besides our own. | belie'
there is more than a newspaper cartot
in the statement that trade will folio
81 the yachts. | believe that the time
coming when Los Angeles and Seatt
will be as close to Honolulu as 81
Francisco has been. 1t is not that ,
love San Francisco less because of Z
fire, but we are glad that we are b
coming acquainted with our norehe
and our southern neighbors.
at is not the fault of the captain
the crew or the boat that Hawaii W