The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-07-31
THE HAWAII AHEAD
WHEN LAST SEEN
CFrom wednesday's Adveriiper.)

lKamehameha was still ahead, the
Gwendolyn close second with the Ha-
waii closing up. The Lady Maud was
fourth and the Gladys was hitting the
high places only, in the fifth place.
The Burline was closing the gap but
sagging to leeward.
Then the telephone tinkled and
word came that the Gwendolyn hao
split tacks with the Kamehameha ard
was ahead while the Hewaii was stand.
ing out to sea and was making bully
weather of the rather hard beating in
a light wind and rolling sea.
The latest report came from Koko
Head by the automobile route ana
stated that all the yachts had a fair
offing with the Gwendolyn ahead of the
small yachts standing up to windward
of Oahu for good clearance of Molo-
kai when she put about, the Kameha-
meha biting her heels and the Lady
Maud and Gladys following after. The
Lurline and Hawaii had made long
port tack, then ran in close to Oahu
ON the starboard tack and, after put
ting about, the Hawaii was on level
with the Lurline but way to windward
of her about six miles. In this case,
being six miles to windward means
that you are all of that and then some
ahead of the other boat.
LEAVING THE HARBoR.
Long before the time scheduled for
the launches to come along and tow the
yachts away from the wharf, there was
large crowd collected to take fare.
well look at the visitors and wish tine
jolly amateur tars Godspeed on their
trip back home. At CLOCK one OF
the Young brothers came alongside the
Lurline in a powerful gasoline tug. 1t
was a ticklish piece of business slew
ing the big yacht round in the narrow
space of the slip, but it was perform
cd very cleverly and the Lurline g
boom failed in it's effort to scratch the
paint off tramp steamer lying on the
north side of the"slip.
After the Lurline was clear, another
launch turned the Gwendolyn around
and then took the Lady Maud in tow.
The Gwendolyn came out under sail
and elected shouts of praise from the
crowds on shore, as her crew set the
topsail and flying jib and the dainty
little yawl went flying out of the har.
Dor with few paltry puffs off the
hills to give her way.
The Gladys was still on the ways
Her rudder had to be fixed so she was
hauled on the Lyle "junior" ways and
two carpenters put to work at daylight
yesterday morning. AT 9:30 the haw
ser was slipped and the little sloop slid
into the water. 1t took only a few
minutes for her crew to put sail or
her and she was soon chasing after the
lGwendolyn.
Meanwhile tAe Hawaii had slipped
her moorings under sail and left the
harbor unassisted. Commodore Cooper
did very nice piece of work here and
earned admirng comments from the
judges on that account.
1t was gallant sight as the yacht:
came slipping through the still water.
of the harbor. The breeze was just
enough to fill their glistening sails ant
each one of them seemed filed anC
Overlooking with a live determination
to run away to Hilo.
Each yacht was loudly cheered as i
r passed the sea wall and swooped dowI
, on the judges boat for the officia
time. The start was very well man
; aged and reflects great credit on the
adroitness of Mr.. Young who was il
command of the combination stak,
boat, information carrier, judges boa
: and general utility towboat. Mr.. viii
, der acted as timer while Henry Henke
one member of the crew of the Gwen
, dolyn who elected to stay behind, wa
the gun-firer. There were two mem
bers of the local press aboard thu
. yachts and every courtesy was show
to the newspaper men who were ther,
to report the start.
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