Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
HAWAII ON WAY TO
COMPETE IN RACE
Local YaChtSmen Plan a Royal
Welcome for Game Sail
orS from Islands
CRAFT is ABLY HANDLED
Mistakes Made in Last Contest
Will Not Occur Again,
Says Skipper
CRAFT is ABLY HANDLED
BY BERT s. COLEMAN

"Ahoy on board the Hawaii"
That will be the hail to the big
schooner yacht in a few weeks when
she is expected to loom up in Los An
geles harbor from her long beat across
half the Pacific from Honolulu to take
part in the Transpacific ocean race to
the islands July 3. Commodore c. "
p. Smith yesterday received a cable
gram from the race committee of the
Hawaii Yacht club stating that the big
racing schooner had sailed for Los An
geies, expecting to reach here within
three weeks or better with favorable
winds.
The Hawaii is the product of the
sporting blood in the islands. She was
built for the biennial race two years
ago by popular subscription of the
islandsrs. They are a patriotic col
lection and they easily raised over
0000 to produce the yacht which they
still believe will lift the cup. Every
stick of timber in her was grown on
the islands and everything on her pro-
duced in the Hawaiian islands was
used in place of anything imported.
The craft, which caused much fa-
vorable comment on this coast two
years ago because of her handsome and
seaworthy lines, is in charge of Com
modore Wilder of the Hawaii Yacht
club on her present trip, and there will
be no bungling in her sailing as was
crew of expert amateur yachtsmen and
a few paid hands on board who have
been trimming the big yacht and sail
ing her week after week to get her
down to the finest point of speed she
can produce.
HAVE FAITH IN CRAFT
Two years ago the Hawaii brought
up in the tail end of the 230-mile
race to Honolulu, greatly to the dis
nnnoiDt nf ha island
They still have great faith in her,
however, as is shown in her entering
the race this year. They are salts
fled that she was not given a fair
chance and nothing has been over
looked to have her in shape to make
this the swiftest passage of any in the
fleet.
She had just been finished in time for
the race two years ago when the schoo-
ner Lurline showed such a burst of
speed. The skipper in charge of her
had orders to take out about eight
tons of inside ballast when he reached
Los Angeles and to place the boat on
the ways and scrape her bottom clear
of Irish pennants." The skipper did
neither, causing her to lose many miles
in the race. To make matters worse
the Hawaii was navigated in such a
manner that she missed the heavier
breezes until she was half way to the
island.
Word comes from Honolulu that she
will be raced this year as she should
have been raced two years ago, and
there Is a strong feeling in yachting
circles on this end of the coast that
she will lift the cup. None of the en-
tries so far appear to stand with her
in the long run, although there may
be some surprises when the race has
ended.
Commodore Smiths rerigged schoo-
ner, the Sweetheart, goes into commits
sion next week and it is claimed that
with the cloud of canvas she will carry
and the extra outside ballast she will
make a surprising run under fair con-
ditions.
The GwendoIyn II, which came Sec
ond two years ago, is expected to on
ter and the La Jiviara a Tacoma
schooner-built yacht, Is also expected
to enter. The strange part of the big
race is that San Francisco yachts can
not be induced to take part in the race
and local yachtsmen haven't a very
high opinion of the sporting blood of
the yacht owners of the bay city.
There are half a dozen big schooners
in San francisco which could give
any of the entries a close race for the
cup, but nothing will induce the bay
city crowd to go further into the ocean
than the FaralloneS, thirty miles from
the Golden Gate. It is believed that
the only thing which would induce
San Francisco yachtsmen to enter the
race would be to hold it from that
point to Honolulu. Local lovers of the
briny, however, feel that this move
would be too great a concession in an
effort to induce the San Franciscans
to be sports"
Within the next few weeks there will
be some lively times on the lower coast
among yachts entering the race They
will be trying each other out with
short runs, tuning up to become har-
dened for the long trip and stretching
sails so that they may catch every
particle of wind in sight during the
race