The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-14
YACHTING IS
On THE BOOM
Regatta Committee OF Yacht
Club Makes Attractive
Program.


nolulu. This was decided and prophe-
sled at meeting of the regatta COM
mittee last night, at which most of
the yaeht-owners were pre- ,ent.
There was little useless talking and
discussion. The meeting got down toe
business right away, and some excel
lent suggestions were put up to the
committee The first thing of import
ance to be decided on was to have a
grand opening.
This big event will take place on
May 9 and will be something unique
for Honolulu people. It will take the
Harbor, and a general reception, with
the yacht Hawaii as the guest of
honor. There are few people who
have ever made the trip to Pearl Har
Dor by water, and it will appeal to
the many new members of the yacht
club and to the general public.
Nothing definite can be stated as
yet as to the vessels that will carry
the crowds to Pearl Harbor, but it is
expected that fine auxiliary craft
will be placed at the disposal of the
yacht club, and there will be smaller
vessels the capacity of which will en-
able the transportation of large
crowd for the big doings.
The price of tickets has not yet
been decided on, but it will probably
be $3.50, or $3.50 for a gentleman and
lady This will include the sail TO
Pearl Harbor and return, good feed
at the clubhouse, visit to the gov
eminent works in the harbor. and
visit aboard the yacht Hawaii.
After the big opening of the sea-
son, which will certainly arouse great
yachting enthusiasm, the regular sched-
| ule of yachting events will start in.
| The committee has thought the latter
out very carefully, and they have
evolved very attractive series of
events.
I The first race will be for the Irwin
! cup, on May %. The course is from
| the Honolulu harbor entrance to Koko
Head, back to the entrance buoy at
Pearl Harbor and back to Honolulu.
Open to all yachts in the club.
The second race will be for the
| Cooper cup, on June 6. This race is
| for small craft only, and the course
| will be laid inside Pearl Harbor.
| June IL comes on a Friday. This
is a public holiday, and So it was de-
cided to have big three day cruise
| to Kahului, starting on Friday morn
ing. There are several yacht club
| members on Maui, and special arrange
| ments will be made there for the re-
| ception of the yachtsmen. 1t was pro-
| posed that there be a race on that
day between the Hawaii and Captain
| Miller Luka. This would be a very
| attractive feature of the cruise, and
the suggestion was received with ac-
| clamation and turned over to a COM
| mittee of two, to arrange the event
The third race will be for the Gov
errors cup on June 20. This race is
open to all club yachts and the course
| is round the island of Oahu starting
| from Honolulu harbor entrance and
| finishing at the same point.
July comes on a Sunday and it
| will be full moon at that time so a
| delightful cruise has been arranged
starting Saturday, July 3, and finish
ing the following Monday. The yachts
| will leave Saturday afternoon and will
take their time leisurely sailing round
to Haleiwa where they will enter the
| bay there on Sunday morning and drop
| anchor.
! Sunday will be spent at Haleiwa
where Manager Bidgood has promised
| to make special arrangements for the
entertainment of the visiting yachts
men and the return will be started
early on Monday morning. The Hale
| iva bay is most delightful place for
anchoring a yacht in and is easily en-
! tered during the day time. The yachts
men present at the meeting stated that
| this would be a very attractive trip.
On July IL the Macfarlane cup will
| be raced for. This is for small yachts
| and the course will be from Honolulu
harbor to Waikiki, to Pearl Harbor en-
trance and back to Honolulu.
The Beckley cup will be raced for
on July 25. The course for this race
| is triangular. Starting from the har-
| Dor mouth to Diamond Head thence to
Pearl Harbor and back to Honolulu.
During August there win be a series
of sea wren races for the Spalding cup,
| given by Commodore Rufus Spalding
I OF the South Coast Yacht Club of Los
Angeles. There will probably be four
or five of these races which will take
| place at Pearl Harbor and in Homo
lulu harbor.
The first race will be on August
as 1t is expected that all the new little
| craft will be built by that time. These
small boat races are expected to arouse
a great deal of enthusiasm as they call
Tor no time-allowance or handicapping
| OF any kind and the finish of each race
Is invariably close and exciting.
The season will close with a race for
the kalakaua cup and final arbitrary
handicap in which each yacht compet-
ing will be handicapped by the regat-
| ia committee according to the showing
1t has made during the past season
with the exception of the sea wren
and final handicap race, all races will
be run under the measurement rules
of the club. It was decided last night
that this is the only satisfactory way
IN which to run the races and owners
OF oldstyle boats will have to take
their chance with boats of shorter
| water-line length.