The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-04
LIFE On THE
D { T A \
WAVE
Hawaii Trial Proved Too
Much for Her
Sailors.

The good ship Hawaii and the crew
which were to have sailed her to the
Coast and back for transpacific cup
race honors cruised to Lahaina and
back, starting on Saturday and max
ing port again last night.
1t was a fair and goodly sight to
seee them start out. Each amateur
yachtsman was correctly arrayed in
clean duck, natty blouses. nautical
caps and gold buttons. The pretty
colors of the Hawaii Yacht Club on
their caps looked real nobby.
No sooner had the Hawaii passed
the fairway buoy than each passenger
and member of the crew produced a.
cute little pipe and lighting up. puffed
vigorously, looked up at the sails as
if they understood and appreciated
them, and whistled or hummed "a
Life on the Ocean Wave" with hardy
abandon.
All this lasted until Diamond Head
light was reached, then-oh, such
Indifference, and oh. such groanings and
sadness!
The gallant crew which was to have
fooled the staunch little craft to San
Pedro with one accord fell sick. They
said that it must have been something
that thaxy had The nn1xy
who did not suffer from the epidemic
of NAL de mer were a couple of pro-
fessional sailors and passengers-Wil-
lie Roth and Ollie Sorenson.
Otherwise everybody was incapaci-
tated, from the captain to the cabin
boy.
The cook was far too i'll 20 attend to
his duties. but his services were not
much in demand, anyhow.
Commodore Captain and Sailing
Master Alex Lyle took it bad Exer-
cising his prerogative as commander
he yanked a fellow sufferer from an
upper berth in the cabin and, climbing
in himself. remained there and re-
fused to bulge.
The cook. sick in the kitchen. brave
ly defended the honor ;. of the sink
against the designs of them as wanted
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used. He fought all comers and
guarded that sink as Horatius did the
bridge.
AS the poor sufferers lay scattered
about below, the yacht would ship a
sea every now and again and the
water would percolate through the
cracks and open places onto their
wretched persons. They neither knew
nor cared, in the majority of cases,
however, and if the ship had sunk
none of them would probably have
given a hoot.
No landing was made at Lahaina,
because it was feared that if once the
crew and passengers got ashore moth
ing would be able to induce them to
~go aboard again. and the homeward
%progress of the Hawaii was thus apt
to be considerably hindered.
1t is extremely improbable that a
salary of 800 a week would tempt the
amateur crew of the racing yacht to
make the trip to San Francisco, let
alone return.
The yacht Hawaii returned from her
cruise to Lahaina last night. anchor
. ing about $3.50.
She made splendid trip and sur
prised all aboard by her sailing quail
titles and the way she slipped through
the water.
Speaking of her last night, A. w.
Neely said:
''She is a beautiful sea boat and her
performance was the best ever saw,
bar none. We crossed the channel,
light to light, in 3 hours and 20 min
utes, a distance of about thirty-two
miles, or better than ten miles on hour,
and this with a heavy sea-"
Aboard the Hawaii We're Commodore
Alex Lyle. Vice Commodore c. 7. Will
der. CLANCY Wilder. Olaf Sorenson,
William Roth, Walter Macfariane, A.
w. Neely, Leslie P. Scott, Charles
Crozier. George Turner, Chas. O. Spin
ME- A LundQuist, w. Lyle, Samuel
Lyle, John O'Brien, Samuel Meeker.
Ray Rietow and Billy Crewes.
Port was left on Saturday and at
5:25 p. m. the fairway buoy was pass
ed. AT p. m. the Diamond Head
lighthouse was passed. The Kameha- !
meha also set out for Lahaina and
was some ten minutes behind the Ha-
wall. She turned back. however, some
time during the night.
THE Gladys also set out for the Maui
76rt with the Hawaii and the Kame- |
hameha
Molokai light was picked np by the |
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