The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-05
OCEAN RECORDS
NOW IN DANCER
Hawaiian Named Boats Will Rae
Across the Pacific-The
HeIga's Leak.

! TACOMA, August 21-No little
| rivalry exists between Capt. Chris
Larsen Of the barkentine koko Head
well known at Tacoma, and Capt. n.
i =. Carlson Of the barkentine LahainaI
which have been logging each other
for months. both of them making smart
VOYAGES These lumber carriers belong
| TO the splendid fleet of fore-and- alters
/ owned and operated on this Coast by
! Hind, Rolph 4 Co., nearly all of which
! have called at Tacoma. The schooner
James Rolph of this fleet was at Ia
| coma several years ago loading coal for
| the Hawaiian Islands. She was then in
command of Captain Olsen, who lost the
Rloph Aust a short distance south
! of the Golden Gate.
The koko Head is at present loading
| lumber at Everett for Sydney, New
South Wales. and Captain Larsen hopes
| to better his record Of last year to the
antipodes. The Lahaina is at WiIlapa
to aan load for Sydney, and althouh
she viii not lie ready gto put to sea for
several weeks after the koko Head, the
rivalry between the masters is as keen
as last wear, when they departd from
British Columbia for Australia within
a week Of each other. Captain Larsen
expects TO try conclusions with the
| barkentine Fuako of the same fleet,
which is ready to leave for Sydney.
| The two smart barkentines Koko
Head and Lahaina are Of practically the
same size and equal in speed. Their
| records on the last voyage to Australia
and return are so identical as to be
almost remarkable. The Koko Head
went in sixty-seven days, while the La
hama did the long distance IN one day
less. Both vessels We're delayed for a
long time by the strike at Newcastle
before the ycould leave out. They de-
parted for San~Franoisco the same dav,
the Lahaina beating her rival by five
days, making the passage in seventy
DAYS, while the Koko Head required
seventytive.
This run is worth more than passing
notice, as the rival masters took two
far removed routes, the advantages OF
far removed routes, the advantage OF
each having advocates among the cap
tains who come from Australia to this
Coast. Captain Larsen selected the Ia
hiti route. and in forty-three days he
crossed the equator in longitude 174
west Captain Carlson chose the route
between the FIJI Islands and New Gale
. donia, much farther to the west. He
crossed the line when thirty light day:
ont. in longitude Us east, and although
he reached the equator five days before
| his rival, the Koko Head was abou
two thousand miles farther east wheI
she crossed only five days later than thu
Lahaina. North Of the line the Lahain:
had strong, fair winds to port, while
) the Koko Head was held back by calm
: and head winds, accounting for the La
hama s better passage. In spite of this
Captain Larsen believes the Tahiti
) route is the better.
While at Newcastle. Captain Larse1
: was in company with the British shil
BIysthwood, so well known at Tacoma
This ship left the coal port May p
and is reported arriving at Chimbote
, Feru, july %, having made a fairl.
good run across the Pacific. The mas
ter of the Koko Head was also in por
with the British bark Heiga, which wa
? wrecked last week in the Hawaiian Is
lands, after being Ion goverdue. Cap
. tain Larsen reports that the Helga wa
leaking badly while in port at New
= castle.