90 
FORE ST AND STREAM. 
tjAN. 30, i04- 
Commodore and Mrs. Referee waving good-bys from 
the lawnj we drifted out of the lee of the land into the 
breeze. La Paloma cleared off a few minutes later, 
and we came about and waited for her, sailing in 
company with started sheets down the loch, past- the 
club's cruising quarters at the entrance, through- the 
channel recently scraped by order of Uncle Samuel 
to admit pf the free entrance of battleships and so to 
the open sea. A steady northeast trade was blowing 
and some three miles to windward, half way from 
Honolulu, the Helene was seen bowling along to 
meet us. 
Starting orders read that the committeemen should 
compare watches as the three competitors lay abreast 
with bows to windward. At the word "Go" from the 
Gladys, Mr. Referee being the chairman of the racing 
committee, it was up to the yachts to drop their spin- 
naker booms, come about, set their spinnakers and 
start. This was carried out with a beautiful start, the 
Gladys winning the windward an'd shoreward position 
by clever handling. The skippej- and the referee ran 
forward to set the spiiiuaker, which had been laid out 
on the house while waiting for the Helene, and the 
giant took the wheel. Outhaul and halliards were 
quickly attached, the sheet taken aft to a cleat on the 
cockpit rail, the boom set to starboard and kept from 
soaring by a lashing to a scupper mouth and up went 
the big sail, breaking out to perfection. The big crew 
of the Paloma had their sail drawing before we did, 
but we beat out the Helene and its crew of five men 
and a boy. 
The race was on. The Palonla's bigger spread of 
canvas and the fresh breeze soon caused her to forge 
ahead, but our time was coming later and we were 
content to see the Helene on 6ur lee quarter unable 
to gain. All the sheets and I.alliards of the Gladys 
come into the cockpit, and the steady steering before 
the wind soon saw us disposed in comfort and talking 
over the course. A half moon, horns up, was in the 
sky as we started at five minutes after five, though the 
western horizon was only just glowing to sunset. . The 
moon was due to keep us company for five hours. Past 
Barber's Point, nine miles away, where a lighthouse 
is placed, there was a prospect of using a balloon 
jib for another twenty-five mile stretch to Kaena 
Point. The skipper calculated on hauling the spin- 
naker boom forward and passing the sheet around the 
head stays, thus using the spinnaker as a balloon jiia 
Gladys's Anchorage at Pearl Harbor. ^.r^"^ 
Under the lee of the volcanic cliffs which form the 
western coast of Oahu, winds are uncertain, however, 
and going out to look for a breeze would lose us the 
sure benefit of a three or four knot current that sweeps 
around the points. Considering the' size of his crew, 
the skipper thought it Would be the wiser plan to take 
in the spinnaker before moonset, unless the breeze 
seemed particularly favorable. The last stretch of this 
first half of the race was a fourteen mile thrash to wind- 
ward with the prospect of plenty of wind; just the 
weather for the Gladys to get an hour or two ahead 
of the rest. 
The western sky was soon gleaming like a topaz, and 
while light lasted we determined to eat. First, however, 
we established our lubber's mark and screwed the com- 
pass to the deck. The yachts were still in the same rela- 
tive position, the Paloma steadily drawing ahead. The 
skipper went forward to set the side lights in their 
screens, and then we tackled our cold supper of fruit, 
meat, maccaroni and cheese, pickles, bread and beer. 
After supper the skipper decided to let the Helene, which 
had been trying to get on our weather quarter and blanket 
Ui- for the past fifteen minutes, have her way while we, 
stood out a little further to sea. Into the tawny sunset 
we sailed with the Helene on our starboard beam, her 
port light opposite our jealous eye of green, the Paloma 
ahead with her cabin lights aglow for supper. An inter- 
island steamer came up from Honolulu and overhauled 
us slowly, it being well on towards midnight before ghs* 
dropped her lights below the horizon. The lighthouse 
on Diamond Head, the well-known promontory hard by 
Honolulu, shone like a gleaming eye, paling a solitary 
star that floated overhead. 
All this so far was easy sailing, but hard work was 
coming at eight bells, so we took our- ease as it came to " 
us. The referee lit a cigar, and the giant and the skipper 
swapped shark stories as the moon slid down the western ' 
sky. The Paloma was, as we found later, vvel] inshore 
the reef running in close enough, to let them hear land 
noises very distmctly. The shore is here very barren 
and precipitous, and only an occasional fishing villag » 
shows signs of habitation. The Gladys was well around ■ 
Barber's P.omt by seven o'clock- and the wind provinof - 
abparri, in came the spinnaker,; the boom being lashed • 
along the- starboard ra:il. La Paloma w^ saw nothjng 
of after this until the next mqrning, though she - saw 
the Gladys, from tiftje to time," until our "lightl .we^t- ' 
out" on her -as -we passed them at mi^ftight / ' Our ■ ■■ 
sheet was luul^jn aiid the jib trimiBeC-but the ^r^ 
|)roved Muh ^hf mMt v^^si^^s^i g^^Q:ii^aj^'- 
etlAKT COURSE OF GLADYS, 
like a gray shadow. l>Ol'dru'iiTs were s,plit by little 
squalls that came down the steep ravines, but. the calms 
were frequent and at times w'e scarcely held steerage 
way. It looked for a while as if we would never make 
Kaeha Point before daybreak, a tantalizing thought jn 
view of the almost certainty that there was a half gale 
waiting for us once we got round the. cape. Thfe Gld'dys 
was , getting the best of it in what breeze did b^PP^ii 
along, however, and later comparistitis Shtiwed that We 
were fortunate in fihdihg Wiiid that did not reach the 
others. 
The water was brilliantly phosphorescent with 
promise of fine Weather, the bubbles slipping past the 
sides like semicircles of blue flame. A school of por- 
poises churned thie sea ihto liquid fir'e as they chased 
their supper. The moon was getting very low as we 
drifted, and the lights in the shrouds gleamed like 
"clkiret and cre'me d'e menthe," to use the simile of 
one bibulous minded individual, as we tacked in the 
hope of a better breeze. Just after ten the moon 
dropped into a bed of clouds and in her good-night 
greeting, across the waters we saw the Helene a mile 
to leeward and abeam. With alternate calms and windy 
spells, we glided along toward- Kaena Point, steering 
N.W. ^ N. course by the card. Before rounding we 
caught a promise of the wind awaiting us, as the sea, 
quiet as a niiUporid for two hours past, became white' 
capped, swirling hi phosphorescent foam from the bows' 
into a gfeaming wake, 
Committee figures later showed that the three boats 
Must have rounded the cape within a few minutes of 
each other and midnight, but with the wind in her 
teeth, the Gladys soon bid them all good-by, fortun- 
ate in having reached Kaena Point on even terms. 
From now ahead for the rest of the cruise theffe was 
no lighthouse until Diamond Head, at Honolulu, and 
we were cruising in unknown waters. Somewhere, 
eleven miles ahead in the darkness, lay the finish of 
the first leg at Waialua where there was a harbor, a 
: ■ . Celebrating Victory a,t Wgiial«a. 
smajl one with a narrow entrance, as yet unvisited by 
any of the, competing skippers: The harbor is seldom 
used, and the range lights have long since disappeared. 
The, manager of a fine hotel, built for tourists, had 
agregd to hang a prominent light in the grounds, and 
mutual agreement .made the finish at a point with the 
light abeam, within a limit of two miles from shore, the 
light- a:beam being judged by the committeemen from 
the-after -Hne of thfe house on each yacht, the direction 
of .ihe^vadtt's course and- that of the shore being 
fixe.4 'They also adjudged the twp mile limit. 
^Jv-Tfe wiad strengthened, and the Gladys, tired of sail, 
.atr jjght ■ wind.&- 6n an; ewn- keel; buclced ■ into "ft' wtfK 
her . lee raii .u-nder.- - Water never gets into h&r ■ cb?kpit- 
e^cept : when..w^<ibl{DWn, .aiKi though .she; .he«Is \xiM 
a gifnce over thg weather i-^il %^ state of 
her copper liaiht; her well planned design spills the 
wind at the critical moment, and there is ilo thought 
among those who know her of any danger ff d,m crack- 
ing on. Like any feminiiiily; .however, the GMdys is 
capricious. ,Sh'e hil? a fiied. . detferWinatioii tb ekt u^ 
th'e wind iind a touch of weather hfelni works miracle^,. 
H'eir steering calls , for coiistaht attention, a glance at 
a rival astern by the man at, the wheel, meaning timfe 
lost, before you get her head back to it. She is Vixy 
Dewey— A San Francisco Type. 
^^1"* Oil hfei- heltii and, whilfe A itia,rv«l in st^ys,- is ^ 
marVfel it gettiilt aWa^ frOiH yOii uHleSS j^tJu MiM^m 
every ffloVetiifetit, A t^rO at thfe whefel is ter^ \\Mt t6 
hild thfe Gladys looking sit him tO sefe what hfe is doifi^, 
and even .an. avferagfe SailOrihah uhusfed tO a niodefri 
mt ^ill find it hard to gfet the hiOst Out Of her kdf- 
|h!p uhtil. aftei* loiit acc^uairitancg. The slcippei- 
kheW the .GkdyS aiia,.hfer .WhlriiS, holvfevfer, and there 
was vfery littlte .lost effott iri fhat tJirash. tO Wlfidwafdl, 
Thfe w.atei- boiled in iriteiise p'hOgphOrfe'stefic^ a§ 
Hobron kfept hfer. always moviiig. it surged Ov^r tfiS 
rail at the .shrouds,, flashed JtitO spray that fl*w like a! 
swarm of fireflies, died in the glare of the sidelights arid 
rushed along the deck over the quarter into a lumin- 
ous wake like a steamer's trail. Beads of fire fell on the 
sail and rolled to the boom glowing until it seemed as 
if they must burn the cloth. Eyes were masked with 
the salty spume as with a cast, as a lookout for cf oss,- 
mg boats was kept. Spray tried to penetrate the> 
oilies, get through the hard closed ports and put ou^ 
the Hghts. The trades were abroad with a 4-5 velocitys, 
and the sailing was glorious. Every one in turn at- 
tempted a turn below in the cosy little cabin, but %\ 
took more than weather boards to. keep a, m^n in his^ 
bunk,_ and skep was not forthcoming, The skipper andi 
the giant shared the helm, until midnight^ when HobfOP, 
took charge for the rest of the night. " 
The course was set S. E., and we fought our way ta 
the finish with short inshore tacks. Hard on two o'clbclc 
lights were seen where the laborers of thp big plantation- 
near the JlQtel Jive, and soon afterwards a big star flashed.' 
out over the poit bow under the club of the jib. It was? 
fixed and brilliant, and it was in the. right place. A shout 
from the skipper brought the referee on deck from a 
vain attempt at a snooze, and with all three jubilant, 
though wet, straight into the wind went the staunch- 
little craitwith the big seas smacking her bows like a, 
drum, straight for the mark. ^ 
At 2:30, the light was well abeam, and thought 
to be wit'hin thf ' two mile limit as the lights , of ther 
houses ,an^' the Ijotel were plainly 'seen, but the refferee 
wanted -to-Vmak^ assurance doubly sure, arid Ordered' 
another-t^ack. At'2:57 he was satisfied, and duly regis- 
tered tbej^time:-];DistanGe,, 45 miles-> tinte, gh." 52.m. 
Two J^^nrs to daylight yet remained -to Kill, and. the 
skipper. -|ttggestiid^ laesVing. tO: under 'a- storm-' trysail,! but 
3; glanq^-at his ."wet and diminutive cre-vv,- .leftlit ^metely 
a snggesfidn, v^iid: tlr^^^^^ mainsail - i^eiii^ined up., - About 
she came, and .put to s.ea with a free sheet ahd. a .pleas-; 
•^iit 99^vi^|ic>a t^i:e '?-^|oma- atti4 9«ien,e were stilli- 
