The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-03

Record of the GLADYS III the race
around Oahu for the Governors cup:
Start, Saturday, July 81, 5:32 p. M;
Barber's Point, 1880 p. IN; Waianae,
$3.50 p. m; Kaena Point, midnight;
Waialua, Sunday, August l, 4 a. m;
Kahuku Point, s a. M; Kahana Bay,
noon; Mokapu Point, 2:15 p. M; Rab'
bit Island, p. m; Diamond Head, 8
p. M; finish at spar buoy, 1858 p. IN.
Elapsed time, % hours q minutes. Cor
rected time. % hours q minutes.
1t was shortly before six O'Clock yes
terday afternoon that Captain Nelson
at the Diamond Head station tele-
phoned in that the Gldays was sighted.
Some fifty minutes later she passed the
spar buoy and the finishing line, thus
putting one leg ON the Governor IS cup
for yachts of the first class over a
course round the Island of Oahu.
AT the time of writing the Charlotte
c. has not been sighted, and it is pre-
sumed that she was left in the doldrums
somewhere on the weather side of the
island, where the wind has proved
itself very fukey and unreliable.
All the way round the island the
most surprising weather conditions were
met with. At places where they ex-
pected TO get no wind, there was live
ly breeze, and at places where the wind
should have been blowing strong and
free, there was an oily patch on the
water and not a breath to flap the sails
The promise of the weather at the
start was not fulfilled later on. After
leaving the spar buoy the two yachts
raced neck and neck for Barber's
Point. When they were off the entrance
, TO Pearl Harbor the wind shifted suf-
| ficiently to permit of spinnakers being
set and, under these conditions, the
Charlotte forged ahead and opened up
quite little space between her and
the Gladys.
But, before they reached Barber IS
Point, the Charlotte was obliged to
douse her spinnaker and then the
Gladys, with more favorable slant,
| gained rapidly and reached Barber IS
Point in the lead.
First Taste of Doldrums.
OFF Waianae the yachts had their first
taste of the doldrums The Gladys ran
| for nearly an hour, while the Char
| lotte carried the wind nearly up to her
and both of them wished that they had
~NctlN bu lndl
could be somebody to get out behind
and push.
Finally the Gladys caught slight
puff off the land and slipped away, fol-
lowed later by the Charlotte. But at
Kaena Point there was more pilikia
The wind dropped entirely and again
the yawl ran down on the sloop.
I, A Wonderful Sight.
The moon was well up by this time
and sent wide and brilliant streak
across the water. Aboard the Gladys
they could see the Charlotte c., directly
in the middle of this silvery streak
come sliding noiselessly along like a
ghost ship. They say it was one of the
most remarkable and memorable sights
that ever comes to the wandering
yachtsman.
But the view, grand as it was, could
not claim their attention long, for
luckily, breeze sprang up soon after
midnight, and they sailed on round the
point and by daylight were well be
yond Waialua.
Long Tacks to Windward.
From Kaena Point the Gladys made
long leg to windward and then stood
inshore, going about again at just
about eight bells. Then she made an
other long leg to windward, running
only a little out of the parallel with the