The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-26
TRANSPACIFlC RACE ENDS
WITH MOLLILOU'S ARRIVAL
Sweetheart Crosses Line at 0:IO A. NJ, II
Hours 46 II Minutes Behind Hawaii;
MoIiIOu z Hours Later.
TIME AND HANDICAP FROM COAST

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The trauspacihc yacht race Of 1910
is over with the Hawaii the winner by
II hours, 46 minutes and 81 seconds
actual time over the Sweetheart,
hours, 40 minutes and 81 seconds, al.
lowing for her handicap of eight hours
and a half and by day, hours, Al
minutes and 40 seconds actual time
over the Mollilou and 20 hours, IL min
utes and 40 seconds allowing for her
handicap of seven hours and half
The handicaps were figured on the
basis of thirty minutes for every foot
excess over all. The Hawaii measures
20 feet over all, the Mollilou 55 feet
and the Sweetheart SO feet. The Ha.
waii arrived at the finish line at 1923:
80 Sunday afternoon, making her time
IA days, hours, 90 minutes and 80
seconds. The Sweetheart crossed tho
finish line at 9:1O:7 yesterday morn
ing, making her time IA days, 81 hours,
10 minutes and seconds. The Molli-
lou passed the mark at 1910 last
evening, making her time Is days, Z
hours, 5 minutes and 10 seconds from
the time she crossed the starting line
at San Pedro which was Sunday noon
of July the tenth.
All the incoming yachtsmen reported
the wind very light throughout the two
thousand-mile voyage and all congratu-
lated each other on making such good
time under the conditions.
Commodore Smith of the Sweetheart,
which was the second boat to come in,
said that all the boats made the best
use possible of what little wind there
was and the Hawaii did especially we'll
in the light breezes which prevailed.
eff the Lurline had been in the race
this year." he said, "she would have
been third to finish, as she is larger
even than the Hawaii and needs all the
wind she can get to carry her along"
Both Commodore Smith of the South
Coast Yacht Club, and Captain Lew
Harris, who was his navigator, deelar-
ed that if the trade winds had been
up to their usual strength all the yachts
in the race would have lowered the
Lurline' s record made four years ago
of ~ days and 81 hours. The yachts
caught the trades about two days
earlier than they expected to, but they
were extremely light and the boats had
all they could do to keep under head
way most Of the way. The new light
sails that Captain Wilder put on up
the Coast, Commodore Smith said, won
the race, for otherwise the Hawaii
could not have held her own without
wind against the smaller boats.
The Sweetheart carried spinnaker for
seven days and this was what brought
her through, the commodore explained,
while the Hawaii was borne along by
her square sails. Commodore Ward of
the Aeolian Yacht Club of Alameda,
credited a storm sail, which squared
to the breeze, with bringing the Mol
lilou over the course in the time she
made. The Mollilou is larger boat
than the Sweetheart, but carries less
than half the canvas.
The Sweetheart was an auxiliary
cruising schooner until this last spring
when Commodore Smith had her en-
tirely rerigged specially for this race.
The engine was taken out, two new
and higher masts put in and all her
fore rigging is entirely new. A 1900
pound shoe was put on her keel which
lowered her draft from six feet and
half to ten feet. She was rugged to
carry canvas and she can take on as
much as the Hawaii although a much
smaller boat.
The Hawaii is the only flush deck
yacht of the three and her lines are
more graceful and sloping while the
Others are cut more sharp and straight
The Sweetheart is ten years old, but
the race down here is the first event
of the kind she has ever entered, hav-
ing been used entirely as cruiser
At quarter to nine O'Clock yesterday
morning the whistle blew announcing
that the Sweetheart had been sighted.
She was then about seven miles to the
east of the Lighthouse. Mrs. Smith, wife
Of the commodore, and Mrs. Hazard,
both of Los Angeles, hastened down
to the launch Kulamanu II. and accom-
panied BY Commodore James Jaeger, OF
the Hawaii Yacht Club, Captain Char.
ley Wilder, Harry Wilder and Charley
Duukhase, proceeded out Of the harbor
10 greet the incoming craft. The Sweet
heart came up to the Alakea.street
wharf about eleven o'clock and Com
! modore Smith aud Mrs. Smith proceeded