The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-11

1t is probable that the Kukui will re-
turn this evening about six clock
from Molokai.
The rest of this week will be taken
up in coaling and fixing the boat for
a trip around the Island of Hawaii
This voyage will be begun probably
next Monday, and may last the great
er part of the week Yesterday First
Officer Middleton had the men shifting
coal out of the forward hold into the
hunkers. This is some of the coal
which the kukui brought down here
from the States with her, and it will
be disposed of as soon as possible A
unique trolley system is employed in
transferring the coal from the hold to
the bunkers. BY means of the power
ful little compound engine which is set
in the bow Of the boat, the coal is
hoisted in buckets to the deck. where
the latter are hooked on trolley-like
cable and run aft to the bunkers. The
engine which is used in lifting the
coal is a remarkable little piece of
mechanism It makes almost no noise,
yet IS extremely powerful.
As has been published before, the
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Knkui will be taken off the boat and
although it Is a splendid piece of ma
chinery, is too heavy and unwieldy
for the work. II can be handled
quickly and easily, and this is the
reason that it was at first installed. It
Is altogether too heavy, however, and
will be replaced by boom.
81 have never sailed in a boat that
acts better in a seaway than the Ku-
kui. said Captain Jobson, skipper of
the new United States lighthouse ten
der, Yesterday Master and men Of
the Kukn are proud of the staunch
little craft which has come from the
Atlantic Coast to the middle of the
Pacific Ocean to attend to the wants
of the lighthouses in the Hawaiian Is
lands.
Local waterfronters have passed out
q mild bunch Of criticism for the KIT
kui, referring especially to the guards
that extend around the sides of the
boat. but on close examination it has
been said that these are not dele
terious to the boat in the least. As
to the statement that small boat
would be eapsizea when let over the
side by the guards, this is never pos
sihle because of the wooden guard
which is let down from above to fend
off the small boat as it slips from the
dayits.
The guards which have been eriti-
eized considerably here proved great
help to the vessel when she came out
of CaIlao on the long voyage from.
the Atlantic Coast. While at that
port. the Kakai was loaded to her full
est eapacfty-and perhaps little over
with coal. She had good bit of
steaning before another port would be
stopped at, and the coal was neces-
sary under the circumstances. But
she was loaded deep, and every plunge
sent her nose under.
Had it not been for the guards,
which, by the way, stick out for about
a foot from the sides, it is said that
the Kukui would have done power
full lot of staggering in handling her
load Under the steadying influence
of these, however, she plowed right
along. The guards are especially use
full when the vessel is in port. She
can bump up against any old kind of
wharf, or slap-nang along the side Of
another vessel, with absolutely no in
jury to herself The guards are strong,
and in themselves strengthen the
vessel.
The men on the boat tell with pride
of the fact that during her long and
trying voyage around the Horn, not a
rivet in the new boat pulled through, i
and everything was just as spick and
span, so far as her solidity was CON
eerned. at the end of the trip as when
she started.