The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-15
BY JACK DENSHAM.

Some forty yachtsmen. landlubbers
and other live ballast, have just recov-
cred from having the time of their
lives. Also the yacht Hawaii has again
that she is a wonder on the wind and
an additional wonder with the wind
over her quarter. Her race back from
Kahului against a schooner. handled by
a professional crew, with the wisest
old owl on the Islands at her helm and
with waterline length nearly twice
as big as hers, in which she came in
well ahead after one hundred miles of
running, is clear proof that the old box
can ramble juss~as long as the wind
does not come dead aft.
Coming out of Kahului harbor on
Sunday afternoon when the breeze was
just fair enough to allow a course with
out examining on the wind, when the
Hawaii mysteriously donned magic
spreads of glistening canvas, piece by
piece, she was sight worth travelling
far to see
A Yacht. Every inch of her canvas,
every line of her sheer, every Tilt of
her masts as they dipped to leeward
was yachty. A poor word perhaps to
describe the effect she made, but very
descriptive to those who have been
down to sea in freaks and have watched
the bend and dip of sailing boats to
the thrust of a twelve-knot breeze.
The Hawaii beat the Concord over a
hundred-mile course, with the wind bye
to fair all the way and blowing well
every minute of the race. The Con-
cord is a big schooner, She is just
twice as big as the Hawaii. She was
sailed by experts. She has the sweetest
lines below water of any craft of her
size in these seas. According to all
precedent and tradition the Concord
should have beaten the Hawaii handily.
She did not. Now let us all take heart
of grace and, instead of talking loudly
about how the yacht was sailed in the
last transpacifc race and referring in
a quaint and imbecile way to the set
ting of sails of which we know nothing,
realize what was said by everybody
who knows anything about sailing, that
the Hawaii, with the wind over her
quarter can make up on any yacht of
size that permits entry in the race from
San Pedro to Honolulu. as clearly
shown and proved by the run from Ka-
hului to Honolulu.
A Boost for Yachting.
The race to Kahului has been one of
the greatest boosts of yachting that
could possibly have happened. Every
body had a good time. Everybody saw
something of the real charm of getting
away On the grand old ocean where bill
collectors come not and nobody knocks,
because they are too busy. enjoying
themselves. Everybody who went on
that trip realized that hauling on a
rope in the sea air and learning to obey
orders quicker than the other fellow,
gets a hardness of muscle and a full
ness of health that not even the golf
links nor the diamond can provide.
A Magic Isle.
Maui is wonderful island. They
permit only the very best to land there,
and they have to be mighty good if
they stav any length of time. There
are some forty yachtsmen who are hon
ored to have not only been allowed to
land. but to be entertained by the most
hospitable people in the world.
It was late when we got ashore on
Saturday morning-that is, late com
pared with the time we arrived. The
train for Waikiki would leave in half
an hour, and so I had to do my best IN
that time to send off what story l could