The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-08


not finish, and the Pearl did not start.
Another erackerjack small-boat race
was the result of yesterday after
noon S event, and, oh, joy! the Gal
Looping Mary beat the Dancing Sally
The time was long, but the distance
was almost nil; in fact, it was only
a few lengths. In the same way the
Ivy was not more than twenty yards
ahead Of the Mary, but the wind was
almost nothing at the finish, and SO
the little craft simply drifted over the
line.
The Male, naturally, had a cinch.
She is entirely out of the wren and
Pearl classes, and nobody seems to
know why she was allowed in, but
Friday sailed her splendidly, and after
rounding the bell buoy the first time,
she was far too much in the lead to
interfere in the least with the sailing
of the other boats.
Lieutenant Shipley sailed a great
race in the Papoose. Had it not been
that he took her too far outside the
channel marks on the last leg but one
TO windward, he would have been we'll
up with the bunch at the finish. That
big dagger keel that was put on last
week helped the Papoose considerably.
but it proved the heel of Achilles when
it rammed itself into the mud at the
bottom of the shoal water. While the
boat was being pushed into deep wa
ter, she lost enough to put her entire
" out of the race.
A Close Start.
The start was a close one between
the Ivy and Galloping Mary. The
Dancing Sally was a close third, with
the Male and Papoose last. The wind
was a light air from the southwark,
and the little craft made slow work
of it. The Mary soon pulled ahead
and was several lengths in the lead
when the end of the breakwater was
reached.
Then the Ivy caught a favoring
breeze from the west and literally !
skated away from the bunch. but after
that a northerly breeze set in and the
Mary ran through the Ivy's lee and
passed the spar buoy first, with the
Ivy second, Sally third, Male fourth,
and Papoose fifth, but coming up
strong.
On the run from the spar to the bell
buoy there was steady breeze off the
land. aud the Male soon forged ahead.
She rounded the bell ten seconds ahead
of the Mary, and then simply ran away
and was never in danger up to the
finish.
Mary Holds Her Lead.
The Galloping Mary held her lead
nicely until the quarantine dolphin was
reached She rounded in second place
and held her position all the way out
on the run before the wind. which was
blowing true from the northwest.
The Sally was third in rounding the
spar buoy for the second beat to wind |
ward, with the Papoose and Ivy com
ing up. Then the wind started to be
fuky again, and the Galloping Mary
was headed by the Sally on the star
board tack and forced to put about, |
but she outpointed the Riley craft and
again took the lead.
Wind Begins to Freshen.
The wind had freshened consider |
ably and the Ivy was coming up like |
a scared deer. Mary stood well in to /
make the marine dolphin on one tack, |
hoping for favoring slant. She got
part of it. but not enough, and had
TO put about. The Ivy rounded see
ond to the Male, Sally third aud Mary
fourth. Stone made a magnificent
turn round the mark and just edged
Mary away fo~ third place.
After the iihe round the quarantine
dolphin the Sally and Mary raced neck
and neck for the spar buoy. The Ivy
was well in the lead of them, but was
gained or rapidly before the spar was
reached. as the wind fell light again.
Not an Inch Difference.
But from the quarantine dolphin
until the outer red standing light.
there was not an inch difference be
tween the Sally and Mary. Then Mary
began to drift ahead. gaining slight
puff off the land. and rounded the spar
three lengths ahead of Sally.
On the last beat to windward the
Galloning Mary gained rapidly on the
ivy. but not enough to make up the
difference. The wind dropped almost
entirely at the finish. and there was !
time when chance breath of wind
wou1d have made any one of the three
a winner. But there was no favoritlsm
and the NV 1rifted over second. Mary
third. and Sally fourth, with the Pa |
poose coming back without having |
rounded the spar buoy, as she was too
long delayed by sticking on the mud
ana had no show whatever; also, Lieu /
tenant ShipIey wanted to get home
for dinner.
Pearls Can Beat Wrens.
This race proved more eoncluslvelly |
than ever that. under ordinary eond.- |
tons. over a course that gives all
points Of sailing. The eatboats have no
chance with the sloop-rigged Pearls. |
On the wind or dead before II they |
are equally good. but off the wind the !
Pearl class iih makes steering 50 mnch
easier that the fiat boats invariably
forge ahead.
There are now enough wrens andl
NPearls to make class division pos