The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-20

| brought to the Nuuanu street wharf
yesterday afternoon when the whistle
sounded for the sighting of the Hawaii,
The launch which had just brought the
| Lady Maud in, started out again with
the Yacht Committee aboard, augment
| ed by a number of others who were in
terested in the Hawaii. The launch met
the yacht soon after she crossed the
| finish line. A cruel Jest had been
agreed on by those on the launch at the
expense of Captain Harris and his
crew. Coming up alongside the yacht,
with mock anxiety Harris was asked
if he had seen any of the other yachts,
as though they were not all three safe
ly moored in the harbor. Harris jump
ed at once to the conclusion that they
had not yet been sighted, and that
therefore the Hawaii was a winner.
Both captain and crew found expression
for their joy in merry dancing and
capers on the deck-unt1 they were un-
deceived.
The committee boarded the yacht and
harbor there had been much interchange
of interest between yacht crew and
committee.
There was a big crowd at the wharf
to see the Hawaii arrive and the great
est interest was manifested. The yacht
was no sooner moered than she was
crowded with people anxious to learn
all about the voyage from the men who
sailed her. There was regret that the
Hawaii had not won the race, but there
was no envy of the yachts that had
beaten her, nor criticism of those who
had sailed her.
The crew of the Hawaii all express
ed themselves as gratifed with the trip
in the highest degree. And every one
of them is, if possible, a more loyal
partisan of the Hawaii than ever. They
all are convinced that she is a great
craft.
cit was the event of my life," said
Ray Rietow, a volunteer member of the
crew. "Both the voyage up and the
return were splendid in every way. I
wouldn It have missed the trip for a
good deal. We were most delightfully."-
treated at San Pedro, and our relations
with our competitors, whom we met
there, were most pleasant. Captain
Harris handled the Hawaii to get the
most out of her. She is splendid
vessel. She will win that race yet"
The Gwendolyn is one of the most
interesting of the four yachts. She is
great deal the smallest of the lot,
yawl rugged, and in many respects is
wonder. She carries three and half
tons of outside ballast and four tons
inside. She was built by her owners,
Captain Lloyd johnson and his brother,
Dean johnson, and she was in the
storm off Mendocino, in which it was
reported she had gone down. For
seventy nine hours she was hove to, but
she rode out the storm, staunch and
strong, and won second place in this
race
Her navigator is Captain Joseph Red
fern, who helped to build her and
knows every plank and bolt in her.
Those who brought the Gwendolyn
here are Captain Lloyd johnson, Jo-
seph Redfern (navigator), Dean John
son, Henry Heinike, W. B. Jack, Ed
ward Russell, and two others.
: The owners of the Lady Maud de-
serve the greatest possible credit in
the world for entering and sailing her
in the race. She is owned by John
Kyle and his son, Wilbur, and though
not quite finished, and not furnished
or found for such race, she was put
in so as to make the race possible. The
race had been declared off when the
entry of the Lurline, the Gwendolyn |
and the Lady Maud made it possible. |
Although the city of San Diego was
appealed to, she did not respond very
heartily, and the Kyles, father and son,
taxed their own resources to put the /
Lady Maud in the race.
She is a new vessel, built by the
Kyles in San Diego. This is her maiden |
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