The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-16
YACHTS Off ON
LONG LEG TO
HILO
Lurline Leads at Start but the
Local Boat Closes Up
the Gap Fast.
SAN DIEGO CLIPPER FAVoRITE
Prince Cupid Fails to Show Up
and Hawaii Sails With
out Him.
IAN DIEGO CLIPPER FAvoRITE
(From sunday,s. Advertiser. }

lFrom Sundays Advertiser.)
Another ocean yacht race is under
way. Not perhaps so important as the
late transpaeifc scurry but still of
decidedly interesting nature.
The Hawaii, pride of the local fleet,
is again trying conclusions with the
swift Lurline, three-t times winner of
the Pacific blue ribbon. This time the
course is from Honolulu to Hilo town.
Handicaps have been abolished for
the nonee and the race is boat for boat
In the no small speculation which has
been INDUCED in over the result of the
race, the San Diego yacht has been
pronounced favorite.
The racing craft are keeping to the
windward of Molokai and Maui and
will round Hama Point. Thence, if the
wind is right, Hilo will be made in one
tack. An easterly blow, however, will
mean that the yachts will have to beat
their way up to the Big Island capital
OFF to Good Start.
The boats got off to a good start at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
Lurline took the lead from the gun,
standing well off shore. The Hawaii
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closed the gap between her and the
leader appreciably when off the Kalia
flats.
Then the Lurline stood off as if in
a bee-l line for Hilo, the Hawaii still
hugging the shore line. It looked very
much as if her rival had outpointed
her.
The last seen of the racers from
town showed the Hawaii standing out
to sea ON a stern chase after the Lur-
line and apparently three-quarters of
a mile to the bad
Long before the yachts left their
moorings at the Alakea wharf a crowd
gathered to see the doings. 1t was the
Lurline's farewell to Honolulu, for she
will sail from Hilo direct to San Diego
next week, and many friends of the
crew were on hand to say aloha and
good luck.
Ladies Present
Several ladies were in evidence and
their bright sunshades and white
dresses were thrown into pleasant re-
lief by the dingy surroundings of the
dusty wharf. Another touch of color
was added by the carnation and lima
leis which were literally hung around
the necks of the crew of the Lurline.
Then the county band clad in white
appeared on the scene with their silver
instruments and the gayness of the
scene was completed.
The crowd stood around the Lurline
and also the Hawaii, which was tied
up at the makai end of the wharf, and
watched the preparations for depart
ure
One by one mysterious packages ar
rived and were deposited where they
belonged, while the ubiquitous photo
grapher set up his camera and got in
his deadly work.
Many weather beaten old water
frontier came down to the wharf to look
| at the contenders for sailing honors.
Also not a few beachcombers who
lounged around, pulling the while on
pipes with much heartiness.
Yachts shipshape.
The majority of the crowd, however,
was composed of the respectable curl
GUS who are never missing at public
function whether it be the start of
yacht race or the reading of the Declar-
alton of Independence. The Lurline
filled the eye as a seasoned campaign
or. What lines she has and what a
craft she would have made for the
South Seas tradei A boat indeed that
would have gladdened the heart of
that much maligned gentleman of for
tune, Bully Hayes.
The Hawaii looked like q brand new
boat. Spick and span and white and
resplendent, she looked every inch an
ocean aristocrat.
Affair from her mornings in Rotten
Row the black painted Seafarer tugged
at her anchor as if anxious to join the
merry company of her companions on
the long, lonely cruise from the Golden
Coast. The seafarer, by the way, win
probably leave for the mainland Mon.
day.
Ideal Racing Weather.
The day was an ideal one for yatcht-
ing, with a gentle trade in evidence,
though the Hawaii would undoubtedly
have been better served by more un-
gentle wind.
To those aboard the seudding craft
II must have appeared as one of Stev
3 enson s "plue days at sea. F."
1t was a deserted harbor that awaited
the departure of the yachts. Hardly
=. vease. was in evidence and save the
ehng.chugging Of power sampans, re-
turning TO port fsh-laden, or the gyra-
8 tiona Of small fry Of the mosquito fleet.
the peace Of the harb0r was unutfled,
Z Steward the blue tide beekoned and the
little waves tumhled merTily over tLe
shoals on the Waikiki side Of the bar
while the yachts were waiting 20 get
: away their crews foregatherhd and
8 snapped yarns Of The last time these
+. two boats raced 20 Hawaii, -four years
ago, when the kamehameha, dHendo.
lYn, Lady Maud ana GLADYS bore them
e0mpanY
The InTllnn won thai Taen the Kane
hemehH helna second and iNendolYn
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Neoaen spoon henegs
Nelanlsef Grew.
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