The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-06-15
By Jack Densham.

KAHULUI, Maui, June 12.-Commo.
dore Wilder had it figured out Just
right when he said that the Hawaii
would be off Kahului before shutdown
on Friday evening and that the Kane.
hameha would give the Hawaii the
hardest rub of any of them in the beat
to windward.
1t was well before dark when the
Hawaii, with sheets Stacked to run
down on the harbor, passed the good
Kamehameha, with split mainsail,
and crossed the line between the stake.
boat and the American girl black buoy,
just three minutes to the good.
The first part of the race was all for
the Kamehameha. She did remark
ably well on the night beat to wind
ward after leaving Honolulu, and, when
daylight came on Friday morning, she
was to windward and probably two
miles ahead of the Hawaii
AT this time, from the Luka, we could
see only the Concord and Hawaii, as
we were way to leeward, although near
er to Lanai than any of them. The
Kamehameha was too far to windward
for us to even get sight of her.
The Concord was to windward just
under the lee of Molokai, and we could
not understand how she came to be so
far behind, for it was evident that if
we were to split tacks we would easily
cross her bows.
1t was only this morning that we dis
covered the reason. 1t seems that when
day broke the Concord was Just under
the lee of some land that looked so
much like Lanai that they supposed
they must be too far to leeward to
make the channel and so put back. In
stead of Lanai, however, it was Molo-
kai, and they found out their mistake
when they saw the Hawaii coming
along and making for the channel.
This set the Concord back probably
three hours-that is, taking the Pirate
Kids estimate of it, and he is nothing
if not conservative in these matters.
Before the sun had been up very
long we could see that the Hawaii was
just eating up the short chop of the
channel and evidently getting smart
breeze; she was heeled over and racing
along at fine speed.
As for the Luka, she had but little
wind, and the Concord, with a much
fresher breeze and a better slant was
soon well to windward of us and max
ing a quick lead. Then began the mo-
notonous beat up the channel between
Maui and Molokai. The wind soon
freshened until we had good eighteen
knot breeze, hut the schooner did not
seem to make up the wind like the
other two yachts, and, before noon, we
had given up all hopes of overtaking
the Concord.
Although we did not know it, the
good little Gladys and Kamehameha
We're way ahead of us. Not sigh ing
them at any time, we thought they
must have taken the weather course
round the other side of Molokai, but
not bit of it; both sloops were doing
splendidly in the short, nasty sea of
the channel and holding their own with
the larger schooners.
the last we saw of the Hawaii was
when she put about after her last star
board tack and saw she could easily
clear Honolua point and get round into
Kahului harbor before dark. At this
time the Kaniehameha was ahead of
her, but was overtaken before she
could reach the finishing line, due prin-
cipally to the accident which ripped
her mainsail.
The Luka began to have trouble be-
fore we were well in to the mouth of
the channel. The first was when we
started to put about under the lee of
Molokai and missed stays. This meant