The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-19
YACHT HAWAII
To SAIL IN RAGE
Hawaii to Be Brought Up From
Pearl Harb0r Saturday
for Measurement.


for the Irwin Cup next Sunday. She
will be brought up from Pearl Har-
by Mr.. Sorenson. the official
of the club. and the regatta
committee will figure out her handi-
cap. or, rather, the time she has to
allow the other yachts, on Saturday
evening, so that the same may be pub
lisfed on Sunday morning.
The regatta committee and several
of the yacht owners held a meeting
yesterday afternoon, at which final de-
tails of the race were discussed. One
important point was decided on, and
all captains of yachts are requested
to take note of it.
According to the rules for the race
drawn up at meeting of the yacht
club some time ago, it was arranged
that all yachts must tack round the
Koko Head buoy and not jibe. Mr..
Whitney pointed out that, should the
wind be from the northeast, this
would allow a yacht to pass on either
side of the buoy. Supposing two
yachts approached the buoy together
from different sides. there would al
most certainly be a mixup. So it was
decided to alter the ruling to, "All
yachts must round the Koko Head
buoy leaving it to port"
The exact distance of the race as
officially measured off on the chart is
$40 q a a NJ
for the different yachts have not yet
been figured out, but this will be done
at a meeting to be held tonight at
O'Clock at the Commercial Club.
Old Trouble Comes Up.
The Gid trouble about yachts with a
modern overhang and small water line
length and old-style boats with a long
water line has come up. The Univer-
sal Rule, which was finally evolved by
a commission of New York, Boston
Canadian, British, French and Ger
man yachtsmen, has covered this diff
Guilty to a great extent. But there is
one great disadvantage to this rule
which makes it impossible for use
here. Each yacht has to be put or
the ways and a set of forms made by
which to determine it's actual displace-
ment, and this is a very expensive
matter, the official measurers of East,
ern yacht clubs receiving large remu-
neration for each yacht measured
This varies from 500 up to $50 and is
more than local yacht owners can be
asked to stand for.
A Mutual Handicap.
This being the case, and since tbs
Corinthian rules are hard on old-style
boats, it was decided yesterday aft
yacht owners and decide on an arbi-
trary known handicap for each yacht
that should be satisfactory to al
owners,
This sounds like a hard proposition
but it is NOT SO hard when one re
members that the Hawaii yachtsmer
are in the game for the sport of the
thing and not to hog all the races. Al
ready a tentative arrangement has
been arrived at which seems to be
satisfactory to everybody concerned
and it is expected that this will be
ratified by the other yacht owners to-
night.
Yacht owners are requested to make
a point of attending the meeting. The
regatta committee has only one object
in view--to make the sport of yacht
racing a grand success here. Bysat-
tending the meeting and assisting in
working out satisfactory handicaps
the captains can do much to aid the
sport and advance the interests of the
club.
Start Worth Watching.