jAvr. 30, 1904.T 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Ii Southern Seas. 
A Cruise Around the Islaod of Oahu. 
BY ALLAN DUNN. 
The Story Which Won the Third Prize of $25 in 
''Forest and Stream" Cruising Competition. 
There are few places where the American yachtsman 
can better enjoy his sport than in the Territory of 
Hawaii. From a catboat to an auxiliary two-sticker, 
from the smooth inland waters to the deep chested 
billows of the open sea, all varisties of the enjoyment 
that comes from the combination of a stick, a sheet, 
and a sail, are his; with the addition of a year long 
season, steady breezes, perpetual summer and infinite 
variety of sea and land. Let me tell the tale of a simple 
cruise amid Pacific Island waters, where the Stars 
and Stripes flies dominant, that may give a faint and 
fleeting glimpse of yachting in Hawaiian seas and, per- 
haps, tempt some brother sailor to come down and 
share our pleasures. 
It was bully summer weather in the last week of 
September; there is always a trade blowing and a sum- 
mer sun shining in the Territory of Hawaii, U. S. A., 
as we ran down in the train from Honolulu to the 
Peninsula, Pearl City, where, on the shores of the big 
inland waters, so soon to become a famous anchorage 
and site for a U. naval station, the club house of the 
Hawaii Y. C. is situated and many of its craft are 
moored in the brackish waters. 
The almost completed schedule of the season's racing 
had brought forth many pleasant cruises and close 
contests, but the present occasion was the first real 
holiday of the year and the most important cruise. The 
owners and regular Corinthian crews of three of the 
first-raters of the fleet had long contemplated a cruis- 
ing race around the Island of Oahu, a total distance of 
108 nautical miles on various points of sailing well cal- 
culated to test the best qualities of each competitor.- 
but business engagements had hitherto stalled off the 
date. Now, however, all was arranged, and the eleven 
o'clock train took down the captain and crews of La • 
Paloma and Gladys, with the members of the regatta 
committee appointed to their -boats, to moorings at 
the club house at the, head of the Pearl Harbor lochs, 
four miles from the sea. The owner of the Helene was 
detained in town until the last minute arid all had 
agreed to meet off the recently dredged channel to 
the harbor, and make the start from that point at five 
o'clock in the early evening with the expectation of 
verted schooner, now a sloop. Her displacement is 
22 tons, and her sail area proportionate. Her mast 
was placed, on conversion, in the original stepping of 
her foremast, and she carries one working jib. Before 
the wind she sails a ten to eleven knot clip in the 
regular trades. On the wind she is speedy, but sags to 
leeward. It is in working to windward that the smaller 
yachts of her class even matters. In a heavy sea the 
Paloma shoves her nose well into it and pitches with a 
perseverance worthy of a better cause. 
The Helene, 12 tons displacement, is not a racing 
type, but her owner, Fred Whitney, who has sporting 
proclivities, has fitted her with racing canvas and in a 
good breeze she makes good time of it, being consider- 
ably stiffer than La Paloma. Her work-a-day canvas 
includes a gaff topsail and two jibs. 
But it is of the Gladys, the little 8 ton, cruising 
knockabout Gladys, owned, designed and built on 
Gladys. " 
making the first leg of the race by early daylight the 
next morning and there spending the day ashore. 
The Hawaii Y. C. has eight craft whose over ' all 
length raches 30ft., and four of these have ieen placed 
in the first class, the Helene, La Paloma, Gladys -and 
Bonny Dundee. The last named is a cutter designed 
by Fife, and sent out to the islands several years, ag^o 
The heavy seas ' encountered in . mid-island .channels 
and on windward shores, effectually :debai: h;e?i..from 
entering , for any deep sea trips. .On 'such . attempts as 
have been made, her' crew has had the doubtfur privil- 
ege of going below and 'viewing the scenery- to: wind- 
ward through the weather planking. La Paloma, the 
flag ship, ownfed by Gomm_©dore Marfitlaiife, is a con< 
transoms, is a locker for double turiier Primus stove. 
Opposite, an ice box, clothes locker and Sands folding 
wash basin. Forward of the mast is a large space for 
storage of ropes, anchors, etc. Full 6ft. of headroom 
under carlins. 
At the forward end of the cockpit it a full deck 28in. 
wide, and under this a Sands marine toilet is located. 
The lazarette is very roomy with plenty of space for 
spare ropes, sails, anchors, sea anchors, and the gen- 
eral dunnage of a cruising yacht.. On the starboard 
side of the cockpit is a water tank, which is piped to 
the washstand and galley. 
The boat is of generous displacement, and construct- 
ed very heavily, giving her all necessary strength for 
crossing wind-swept channels and heavy seas. She 
is equipped with an Edison screw steerer, and an 
Enos windlass. The waterways between the house 
and the rail are 22in. wide, giving ample room for crew 
maneuvers. She was built in San Francisco, anJ 
shipped to Honolulu on the deck of a sailing vessel. 
This is her fifth season in Honolulu, and she has given 
great satisfaction to all who have sailed in her com- 
pany. She has withstood all kinds of weather equally 
well; once being out under trysail in a gale of forty, 
increasing to sixty miles registered velocity. She has 
never lost an •ff-shore race. 
Little work was done before we were summorfbd to 
lunch by Mrs. Commodore, and our last meal ashore 
for several hours was discussed on her broad veran- 
dahs with healths to each other and mutual promises 
to show the way in. After lunch we jumped to work, 
while the referee's wife, who takes the wheel herself 
at times and is well enough up in sailing tactics to be 
severely critical when the mood strikes her, superin- 
tended our efforts. The first nine miles of the race 
constituted a run before the wind, so the spinnaker 
was brought from its bag and carefully pleated and 
stopped on the grassy lawn, leaving free the clubs at 
clew and tack. Spinnaker halliards were reeved, out- 
haul and sheet got in readiness and the boom set in 
the goose neck, clamped, and carried up by the mast 
in readiness to set as soon as the start was declared. 
Inspection of the water tanks and bilge came next, 
with stowage of provisions, overhauling of the tool 
chest, filling the stove and the binnacle and side lights, 
setting the life buoy in the cockpit, oiling the wheel, 
winding the timekeeper, putting handy the chart, marked 
with compass course of the trip, setting up the dead 
lights in the stays, overhauling every sheet and block 
and stay, and putting the night glasses, heavmg lead. 
La Paloma. 
modern lines for our first commodore and inaugura- 
tor of our club, T. W. Hobron, that we sing. De- 
signed as a wholesome cruising type, she sailed around 
the San Francisco fleet before coming to Honolulu, and 
has since beaten the home fleet in all kinds of weather, 
all conditions of water and all distances, sailing on 
even terms without asking for time allowance, even 
from the big La Paloma. There were two of us 
labeled Gladys on the way down to moorings, the 
skipper and the committeeman, who was also to act 
as crew, to be joined later by one more stalwart Cor- 
inthian on the afternoon train, and later in the race 
by the manager of the big sugar plantation who regu- 
larly seeks surcease from the cares of crystallization 
reports by going a-sailing. 
. The train landed us close to the club house and near 
.the commodore's country house where, at his private 
wharf, the Gladys and La Paloma lay moored. With 
pleasant jest and prophecy all walked down the jetty, and 
the Paloma's spacious cabin swallowed up our rival's 
crew. The club house in on the southwest and lee side 
of the big peninsula that splits the inland waters into 
separate lochs and the moorings are ideal. The Gladys 
was swinging clear of the warf with lines out fore and 
aft, and before boarding her the skipper and the com- 
mitteeman, known on the trip as Mr. Referee, stopped 
for a minute to admire her as she lay on the quiet 
. waters. Diminutive she looked by the side of her big 
rival, but- -we 'know • her qualities and were used to 
viewing the Paloma's bows over our taffrail. With 
the emetald slopes; of cane ■ and the jagged range of 
- dead volcanic mountains for a background, she looked, 
to a critical eyCj the embodiment of speed with, her 
-^weet lines and modern bow, "shark-noSed," the natives 
.. call her, clean as a whistle and as snowy as a swan. 
•-• . The Gladys- is a keel knockabout, designed by V. P." 
■Bacon, of Barnstable, •Mass.- The owner desired a 
craft capable of going anywhere about thenslands,'and 
• the outcome was- a boat of the following 'dimensions: 
' -L.- O.- A.. 37ft,- 7in. ; -Lw.r. 25ft.; beam loft.;' -draft gft. 
■'T3in. ; leasi freeboard' 2ft. 6in..; •displacement X4,9pol_bs. 
. Total -san - area 850 sq. ft. ; iron keel 6,0oolbs. ; inside 
ballast for trimrning, about ;i,ooo.lbs. ' ' ' 
- The cabin contains two bunks - on either side, full 
length with a 3ft. aisle between, Forwafid of starboart 
Gladys Wins. 
megaphone and pump where they would be handy. 
The spinnaker, carefully replaced in its bag, was safely 
stowed, and by 3:30 mainsail cover and gaskets were 
off, jib snapped on, sheets rove and every thing ready 
for the arriyal of the third member of the crew. 
The afternoon train soon came in with our man 
and another member of the Paloma's crew, Prince 
Kuhio Kalanianaole, Hawaii's choice for delegate to 
Congress,' a yacht owner and enthusiastic all around 
sportsman. This completed the muster of the Paloma, 
seven in all. tDur new" acquisition, an old time yachts- 
mah, and well- used to the Gladys, shall be dubbed the 
• "giant" for. this cruise by virtue of his niches and 
phsique. , -.t. -sr 
. At four o'clock up went thf majosail and, with Mrs, 
