The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-07-24
Log Of the Yacht Hawaii

who began to Jingle. He was followed
/ by Bill and, of course. had to come
. in. After time some method made
) its appearance. The captain started a
! line. Bill came in with the second and
) produced a third This is the result
sat in the cabin at lunch one day
/ finished and asked for some more
"oh. Daniel" said. "please bring me
some bread
But the only reply was snore.
chorus:
oh. Deep-sleep Dan, such tired little
He yawns when he passes you the
cream
When he's sweeping up the floor
You can hear the beggar snore
For he's walking and he's talking in a
dream
THE HAWAII IN A BREEZE.
, wednesday, July s.-Lat. 30 deg. 90
I min. N. long. 1913 deg. 80 min. w. Dis
lance 40 miles. And that is very much
I more encouraging. 40 miles for the
days run with only twelve hours of
steady wind and our sheets hauled aft
all the time. Between 8 and $3.50 n. m.
we made exactly 1-2 miles so that, II
the wind had held, we should have
been making miles an hour all day.
/ have felt the first real encourage
ment today since we started. Prog
nostications have been so pessimistical
y aboard that have been forced to take
the cheerful side and argue learnedly
with the others. 1t all depends on what
luck the other yachts have had. If
they ran into good north wester
while we were becalmed off Clemente
Island, then they have good days
start of us and II seems impossible
that we can make II up. If, however.
we are on fairly even terms, I feel
certain OF victory.
We have not yet reached the trades
G:3O p. ND but the wind is gradually
hauling and we have our sheets slight
, ly started. This morning l saw her
in a decent breeze for the first time
and I was greatly impressed with her
manner of going through it. There is
; no trace of diving forward and aft her
wake is as clean as a mill race. Under
the lee counter where one usually finds
a hump OF water, the sea is quite level
and the clean sweep of her rise holds
back not so much as a pint. This
, leads me to believe that when we do
get good breeze over the quarter with
l her square sail and kites set, she will
| be extraordinarily fast. Even though
; the other yachts be ahead a hundred
e miles, II we can hold n strong north
e easter into Honolulu, believe we can
catch them up.
n We had a few little choruses or
= deck during the second dog watch. Bill
a Ray. Harry and I. My voice resembles
}. a rusty fog horn, but / know enough
: to hold the tune and can bluff out g
q bass in great shape. A very effective
: one was Swing round sweet wester'
IL ly' to the tune of
y Swing low sweet chariot" then
4 One, two, three, four
a There's wind but l wish there wer,
more
: Elm, zwei, drei, vier
: The outlook is rather drear
a Zip, see, sam, see
q Join in the chorus with me
d Some captains are deft
Il But they often get left
Il And they won't be one, two or three
Il The metre is trife ragged, but oui
= voices are nothing II not plastic and
y we easily made it At in.
!. was awakened about 4:30 thi:
: morning by loud order to "Douse the
o mainsail." I trundled out on deck ex'
z pecting to find the ravages of some
Il sudden disaster. Fortunately 1t was
e only the block of the main topsai
k sheet that had given way. This hat
been made fast to the end OF the gaf
IL by a wire seizing which had chafet
n through I saw a fine exhibition o
{. sailorising when Captain Harris jump
j. ed on the boom and, with both spar
:? swaying crafty, hammered off the ole
: wire and put in a shackle almost be
T, fore I knew he had left the deck. 81,
e minutes was the elapsed time between
Il the giving of the order to douse anC
the word Delay" on the peak pur'
s chase. That, think you will agree
was going some"
Harry, the happy. husky and harm
less one is the first real instance
have ever seen of man being liter
ally as broad as he is long, added I,
which he is perfectly circular and ha.
n delicious German accent. Today hi
was narrating his experiences ashore
I and kept us in roars of laughter. The
funniest of all was his description OF
= n ride in Mr.. Waterhouse's auto. Har'
ny climbed into the tonneau and sa
u on one of the swivel chairs so as t.
show as much of himself as possible
d He had twenty-five cent cigar whicl
he wore unlighted for fear 1t woul'
s burn away too soon and spoil the ef
feet. Den t'rowed out my ches
ind waved Mt all de girls We passed
n und dey waved back at me. Say.
would haf gif twenty dollars to ha
all my friends dere to see me-"
N past performance OF mine seems YER
appropriate:
:; what, no, my lads we're going t
board
A rummy looking craft
with the engine under the fo'c'stl
hatch
y And the smoke stack out abaft
70 There amt no rudder on this ship
10 Though she steers with kind of whet
= And a fiat bottomed scow she must b
guess
'o For see that she has no keel.
is Wen climb aboard the after deck
! Gnrt nf