The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-06-08
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SPLENDID RACE OF FINE
YACHTS LED BY DEFIANCE
lFrom Mondays Advertiser.l

the luck of special puff of wind and
either place.
Out in the mouth of the channel the
wind lightened and the swell made it
bad for the Defiance, so that the Mag
gle gained. But Gus Schaefer round
ed the outer mark well in the lead after
having to make a tack in order to 60
to windward of a black buoy, con-
scientious piece of work, as Gus had
no idea that the eagle eye of one of the
regatta committee was on him at the
time.
Rounding Outer Mark.
The Defiance rounded the outer mark
at exactly 1915, while the Maggie fol-
lowed at l2:16.26. The race was near
" half over, with the Maggie less than
two minutes behind with an eight
minute handicap. 1t looked like a
cinch for Alec Lyle.
After the two leaders came the Dag
mar, Chip and Malolo, all well within
their time allowance. But, after the
outer mark was rounded the Maggie
and Defiance began to kick up their
heels going to windward and soon were
Kenneth Brown put up an awful
game fight going back to windward.
The Malolo passed him and soon gain
ed on the Dagmar, but Brown was not
discouraged and made clever split
tack maneuver which enabled him to
get ahead of Ray Rietow. But this
did not last very long, and the Chip
dropped to the rear again.
no n Hawai-; rnt
iammed between a black mark and the
probability of blanketing the Chip.
She put about and went ahead of the
Chip perforce, apologizing as she did
so. But as there was not a sore bone
in the makeup of the Chips crew, they
smiled and waved and said it was all
right, although the Hawaii must have
lost them at least half a minute.
Maggie Gains in Chop.
When the striped buoy between Ford
| Island and the clubhouse was reached,
| the Defiance was well in the lead of
| the Maggie. Then began the hard beat
to windward to reach the mark off the
| Waiau rice mill. Here the Maggie
| gained, for there was something of a
! chop and the wind was freshening con-
siderably.
| After the Defiance rounded the
Waiau mark she gained on the Maggie,
but the wind fell lighter and the latter
boat could not begin to run with the
side-wheeler. Then the wind came up
again and the Maggie gained on the
run from the westerly end of Ford
Island to the finishing line.
A Grand Finish.
| a.. liz
with the wind just free enough to al
low her sheets trife of slack, came
/ frothing along like runaway. Her
time was taken, and then everybody
waited anxiously to see how the Mag
gle would make out. Lyle was bring
ing her along in great shape, keeping
just far enough to leeward to make
the finishing line and yet taking no
! chances of going too far to leeward
He brought the Maggie over the line
just two and half minutes after the
Defiance, thus apparently winning the
race by margin of five and half
! minutes.
Result Undecided.
Nothing can be said as to the merits
or otherwise of the protest, as the re
gatta committee has not yet taken the
matter up. Written instructions were
sent to each of the shippers notifying
them that they must keep to the mark
ed channel. There is no doubt that
the shortcut was made unintentionally
by Alec Lyle, but, unfortunately, un
intentional mistakes in yacht race
are as liable to ruling as the most
fragrant "did it a-purpose."
Young Shippers Sail Well.
The race was great exhibition OF
sailing and shows what the younger
members of the Yacht Club can do il
tiller- handling. Not one of the skip
pers or crews made any bad breaks
Sails were handled quickly and easil,
and the general yachting technique wa
excellent. 1t is pity that NOR,
youngsters do not take an interest il
this grand sport, the cleanest and mos
manly of all.
Yachting teaches many great lesson
of life, and not the least of them il
courtesy. Any old yachtsman will tel
you: "The first lesson yachtsmaI
learns is TO obey orders, the next j
to be courteous and never to pass an
other craft without waving or sig
mailing, and also that it is Thousand
times easier to shake out reef afte
the wind has dropped than to put on,
in when the wind comes up.