The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-24

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to be here, glad to meet the people of
Honolulu and glad that their boat had
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-
sented it would be by large schooner
yacht, worthy of going up against the
Lurline. He feared, he said, that when
he and his crew returned to the Sound
and showed their trophy they would
need bigger hats. He would like to
have, he declared, a race from Ha-
waii TO San Pedro, run that would
test the seamanship of the crews better
than the run down, which was like
running a steamboat, a straight seoot.
But it was run that made hard work
for us, handling that big stick he
added. sit was a case of four hours
on and four hours off, with some of
the boys wanting to know where the
four hours off came in -
no SORE SPOTS IN HONOLULU.
Chairman Wilder then called upon
L. A. Thurston, a yachtsman from
the old world, who would sail anything
from a surfboard to mud scow.''
Mr.. Thurston said that he had not
expected to be called on to talk against
the Pacific Ocean, nor to be described
as mud-scow skipper His first yacht
ing had been the winning of tub race
in Honolulu harbor against the best
tub sailors of the city, while his real
yachting experience began in 1874, as
a result of which he was as bald head
ed as Commodore Sinclair.
We are all glad that the race is
over. he said, land ] want to tell
YOU that there are no sore spots in Ho-#
noIulu because the Hawaii did not win.
We all wanted her to win and believe
that she win win yet. We are going
to take the ballast out of her and make
a spinnaker out of it for the next race,
which | hope viii be from here, race
to the windward and not to the lee
ward
yachting is grand sport. What
makes a man feel like ginger more
than being afloat, in a tub, or a mud
scow, or even the Lurline-no offense
to you, Mr.. Sinclair. And is it not,
after all, the best part of it to know
that we are all getting acquainted
Three years ago we knew of Seattle
as a place where the lumber came from
and Los Angeles as the spot where Mr..
Waldron brought his oranges from. Bur
now we are getting acquainted with
each other, and with acquaintance
comes liking, and we are learning that
there are good fellows everywhere and
good places besides our own. / believe
there is more than newspaper cartoon
in the statement that trade will follow
the yachts. | believe that the time is
coming when Los Angeles and Seattle
Will be as close to Honolulu as San
Francisco has been. 1t is not that we
love San Francisco less because of the |
fire, but we are glad that we are be-
coming acquainted with our northern |
and our southern neighbors.
- 1t is not the fault of the captain or
the crew or the boat that Hawaii was
beaten in this race, but the fact that
we had no chance to take her out and |
try her, but we will try her out and
we will try again for the trophy
The speaker then related the story |
of a New Highlander, who ate SO much |
clam juice that his stomach rose and
fell with the tides, to Illustrate how |
perseverance viii bring about results, |
and promised that Honolulu would stick |
to it and win the cup some day.
LADY MAUD'S CREW.
Captain Lew B. Harris of the LADY |
Maud dealt with his experiences in the |
race IN q facet1ous way, stating that |
when he ordered his men to loose the
throat halliards one of them went to
the rail, deposited his last meal over
the side and loosened his necktie. The
crew were all San Diego boys, who |
sailed from San Diego in yacht built
in San Diego, none of whom had ever
before been out of sight of land, but
who were strong and willing. He was
glad to be in Honolulu, which was, next
to San Diego, the best spot in the
world and should be called the Para
disc of the World instead of the Para
disc of the Pacific.
There were cheers for the Lady Maud
and Captain Harris when he sat down.
WOULD LICK THE EDITOR.
Captain Redfern of the Gwendolyn
II, when called upon, referred to the
newspaper criticisms of Captain Har-
ris of the Hawaii and expressed the
opinion that the criticized skipper
should have called on the editor of the
critical sheet and had it out man to
man. "When three. yachts come in in
one day after two thousand-mile run,
and when the last cut of four is only
thirty hours Behind the winner, it
shows that every man did his BEST
he added, exphining that sometimes a
ship ssVass sailed for a year before the
one sailing her knew all that she
could do.