The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-24

breeze, but she kicked up her heels for
short time off Koko Head when the
only streak of trade wind was struck.
and soon caught up on the smaller
yachts running back to Diamond Head
The lacking and the running gave the
amateur tars plenty of practise in
handling light sails and shifting top
sails.
Bill Stroud was there with Chan and
Harry Wilder on the foretopsail stunt,
while Howard Bowen and Alex, the
professional, looked after the maintop-
sail. Both teams did lively work and
the genial Bill showed himself very
nimble and handy man aloft. It is
mot pleasant to hold ON with one eye
brow at the top of a swaying mast and
haul ropes over yapping tackle that
may jamb your feet at any minute.
Wilder Has Able Crew.
For the sheets there was an army of
willing workers. Commodore Wilder,
who was in command, certainly had no
roar coming on his crew and, had there
only been some wind, he would have
had an excellent chance to try the
yacht out on different points of sailing.
Sandy McLaren, with a green golf
cap and broad smile was one of the
party. He stated that he was not
much of a yachtsman, but he showed
himself very apt in two nautical
stunts. Getting ballast aboard and
splicing the main brace, so he must pass
as an adept and will probably bios
som out as a full-1edged skipper be-
fore long.
Launch Takes t'Jonah''
While the Gladys was stealing home
along the shore the judges launch
came alongside the Hawaii II and
look several of the party, who had to
get ashore as early as possible, along
with them. Prince Cupid was one of
these and somebody was guilty of a
bad pun, on his first name, with re-
gard to the wind. They presumed to
think that he had been the cause of
the lack of breeze. Which was quite
| rude and would have upset the feel
ings of the good Prince had he not
been Gained by the regatta committee
and Vice Commodore Jaeger.
Jaeger's Good Work.
The thanks of the yacht club are
coming to Mr. Jaeger for what he did
yesterday. He took the judges out
acted as starting and finishing stake
| and towed two of the yachts out to
| the starting line, when they were
| vainly trying to beat out of the har-
| Dor with no wind.
| The Kapolei did not turn up. 1t is
| TtoiY7 either
| thad no wind to sail out of Pear
Harbor with, or else was kept busy al
| the plantation of which he is manager
Story of the Race.
BY half past eight in the morning
all the yachts We're under way trying
to beat out to the starting line, but
! the southerIy air was so light thai
| only the Kamehameha and Gladys
which We're moored near the outer enc
Of the harbOr. succeeded in getting
| anywhere near the line by O'Clock
! This being the case the regatta com
| mittee notified all the yachts that the
race would start at 10 o'clock. giving
everybody plenty of time to get there
| Captain Moses came out with q
! party of friends in the station steam
launch to watch the start and Eber
Low, the Pirate Kid, was there in
,easoline launch to add luster TO the
| occasion. He not only did that, but
made himself mighty useful to some
| Hawaiian who got too near the break
ers in skiff and capsized. Captain
| Low went to his rescue and. not only
yanked him from the briny drink. but
-ixrI,+ III hg1sa
| her out.
Gladys First Across.
| When the first gun was fired TIRE
| Charlotte c. was to windward IN an
| excellent position. The Gladys, Kan
and Helene We're punched to the west
ward of the line, with the Hawaii l
further to 1eeward. The Charlotte Z
| tackled at just the right time and ran
| for the line while the Kan, almost al