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Regatta Day — Honolulu. 
Hawaii, and then to Tahiti, Samoa and Fiji, making an 
eight months’ voyage. He enjoyed the trip immensely 
and experienced excellent weather conditions. This was 
rather unusual, for he left southern California in the 
nionth of February, which is a season when storms are 
likely to worry the mariner ; but he made his entire trip 
without parting a rope’s yarn. He has entered his 
schooner for the event next summer. One of the largest 
yachts in the islands is the schooner La Paloma, owned 
by Com. C. W. Macfarlane. She was sailed down from 
San Francisco a few years ago, and made the trip without 
mishap, although coming across the Pacific during the 
boisterous season. She is 48ft. over all. La Paloma may 
be sailed to San Francisco and enter the race and be a 
representative yacht from Hawaii. 
It is proposed to make the conditions of the race broad 
and liberal, and adopt a system of handicapping that will 
give all contestants an equal opportunity of winning. The 
boats will vary considerably in size. Some of them will 
be as small as 40ft. over all, and the largest 90ft. Most 
of the yachts of the Pacific Coast are built heavily and 
capable of standing such a trip with safety. 
The event will take place some time next June, the start 
being made from San Francisco. The trade winds blow 
strong and true during the summer months, with very 
small chance, of calms, and the trip should be easily made 
in twelve to fifteen days. The time of the finish will be 
taken off Honolulu Harbor. After the arrival of all the 
yachts, the owners and guests will be taken in charge by 
the Hawaii Y. C. and entertained. They will be given a 
typical Hawaiian luau (native feast) , which is always an 
attractive feature with visitors to Hawaii. They will visit 
the different points of interest, about the island of 
Oahu, on which Honolulu is situated, and local races will 
be planned in which the Honolulu yachts can participate. 
A cup will be offered for a race around the island of 
Oahu, a distance of 120 miles, which course offers run- 
ning, beating and reaching, and will bring out the points 
of sailing under these varying conditions. Another 
favorite course which the island yachts race over is to 
Lahaina, on the island of Maui. This is a beat up chan- 
nel for 75 knots, and tests the craft on windward work. 
At Lahaina another luau will be given the visitors and 
they will be shown about this picturesque seaport village, 
Davy Jones for Long Race. — Mr. Richard Hutchin- 
son’s new cruising power boat, designed by Messrs. Small 
Brothers, is to be built by George B. Loring, of Elast 
Braintree, who also built Mr. Hutchinson’s Highball. 
Davy Jones is already entered for next season’s long-dis- 
tance race of the Knickerbocker Y. C., from Marblehead 
to New York for the Rudder Cup. She will rate 33ft. 
sin. with twin Jager engines of 12 horsepower each. 
New Schooner for Mr. C. H. Clark, Jr. — Mr. Arthur 
Binney has received an order for an Soft, waterline auxil- 
iary schooner for Mr. C. H. Clark, Jr., of Philadelphia, 
for whom Mr. Binney designed the 60ft. auxiliary 
schooner Savarona a few years ago and also the 60ft. 
speed launch Hupa last year. The new boat will be some- 
thing of a large edition of Savarona, which is one of the 
most beautifully turned schooners on the Atlantic coast. 
She will be 113'ft. over all, 23ft. beam and loft. draft. She 
will have a Standard engine of 100 horsepower with six 
cylinders. The boat is laid out below decks with every 
accommodation for cruising. The owner’s quarters con- 
sist of a large main saloon, four staterooms and bath- 
room. Off the engine room there are four staterooms 
for the sailing master, the engineer, cook and mess man 
and the stewards. There is a very roomy galley, forward 
of which are quarters for the crew. The finish in the 
owner’s quarters will be in mahogany, white enamel and 
woven panellings. John B. Killeen. 
British Letter. 
Y. R. A. Decisions. — At a recent meeting of the coun- 
cil of. the Yacht Racing Association some cases which had 
arisen during the racing season were brought up for 
adjudication. The most interesting of these was one 
which involved the explanation of the term “weighing 
the anchor” as applied to cases when an anchor or kedge 
has been let go during a race to prevent a yacht drifting, 
or for any other reason. In the race for the ex 52ft. 
class, from the Nore to Dover, sailed on June 17, under 
the burgee of the Royal Thames Y. C., the cutter Viera, 
when close to the finishing line, had to let go her kedge 
to avoid being swept back by the strong tide — there 
being little or no wind at the time. Soon after, a breeze 
sprang up, and the yacht gathered way. In trying to get 
the kedge, the eight men who were hauling in the rope 
felt it leave the ground, but immediately after, it caught 
in a cable or some other obstruction, and in spite of all 
their efforts, the rope was wrenched out of their hands, 
and kedge and rope were lost. The yacht crossed the 
line, receiving the winning gun, and her owner, Mr. F. 
Last, signed the usual declaration that he had complied 
with the Y. R. A. rules, at the same time accompanying 
the declaration with a letter in which he gave a full ex- 
planation of the loss of his kedge, but- stated that he 
considered the kedge was “weighed and not slipped,” in 
accordance with Rule 36, inasmuch as the anchor had left 
the ground. The committee of the Royal Thames Y. C., 
however, while accepting Mr. Last’s statements as con- 
tained in his letter, disqualified Viera for a breach of 
Rule 36, and the council of the Y. R. A. upheld their 
decision. Mr. Last is a well-known and thoroughly 
sporting yachtsman, and his appeal to the Y. R. A. will 
clear up a vexed question, as the reading of the rule is 
not altogether as explicit as it might be. It is, however, 
only one of those cases where the spirit of the rule is to 
be obeyed rather than its letter, and this decision will 
prove of the utmost use in future races. ’ It is clear that 
if an owner lets go his kedge during a race he does so 
at his own risk, and if from any cause the kedge is not 
recovered and got on board again, the penalty is; dis- 
qualification. It is quite conceivable that another yacht 
might have been abreast of Viera and have had her 
kedge caught in the same obstruction, but not have been 
able to free it. Then, if Mr. Last’s contention were to 
hold good he would have been entitled to the prize be- 
cause he had unwittingly slipped his kedge while the 
other boat was still left hung up. This would be ob- 
viously unfair, and as the principle of the thing is what 
has to be enforced, the fact that the loss of Viera’s kedge 
on the day in question could not have made any differ- 
ence to her winning position need not be entertained. 
A somewhat similar case occurred with the S2-footers 
Magdalen and Gauntlet in 1901, except that in this in- 
stance the hedges were used to haul off the mud. The 
two yachts in hunting each other too closely after the 
nearest group of islands which offer much that a cruising 
yachtsman seeks — ideal weather conditions, good harbors, 
grand scenery, active volcano, and hospitality, for which 
the island people are famous. And to the south and 
southwest are hundreds of islands, some of which are 
seldom_ visited by white men, which make them attractive 
to the investigator and traveler. 
Last year Com. Sinclair, of the South Coast Y. C., 
California, cruised in his schooner yacht Lurline to 
start went ashore on the mud. Both got their kedges 
out, and after a time Gauntlet got off. Ten minutes 
later Magdalen was hauled off, but tfie kedge rope parted, 
and although she caught Gauntlet and beat her badly, she 
was disqualified because, under Rule 35, she did not get 
her anchor on board again. The wording of this rule is 
quite clear, but it is obvious that Rule 36 is intended to 
read the same way. 
Clyde Fixtures. — A meeting of delegates from the 
leading British clubs took place at the instigation of the 
council of the Y. R. A. at the Langham Hotel, London, 
on Nov. 3, the chief object being to see whether some 
more satisfactory arrangement of the dates of the chief 
regattas could not be made, so as to let yachts take part 
in all the British fixtures and the Belgian and German 
ones as well. Mr. Burton’s prwosal that the season 
should commence with the Clyde Fortnight — a most sen- 
sible suggestion — met with some opposition, the dele- 
gates from the Royal Harwich and New Thames clubs 
saying that they were instructed tO' inform the meeting 
that their dates were fixed for the second week in June 
and w'ould not be altered. The representatives of the lead- 
ing Clyde clubs were at first antagonistic to the scheme, 
but upon receiving promises from owners in the big class 
and of the 52-footers to be present if the Clyde opened 
the season, they agreed to report to their clubs, in the 
hope that they might be induced to change their minds. 
If the season does commence on the Clyde, ail the fix- 
tures can be worked in, and if the Royal Harwich and 
New Thames stick to their original fixtures, their re- 
gattas will be failures, and they will be brought to their 
senses for next season. It is absolutely necessary that 
some radical alteration should be made, and the con- 
venience of yacht owners is the first considei-ation. 
The clubs must work in harmony, not in opposition, if 
they wish for success. Nothing definite was decided, but 
it is hoped that the Clyde clubs will see the advisability 
of falling in line with the general scheme. The meeting 
was adjourned to a future date, to learn the feeling of 
the Scottish clubs. E. H. Kelly. 
A Shipps Cotduge, 
While the three-masted schooner John H. May was 
aground near the lumber district the other day a large 
crowd stood on the dock watching the crew attempting to 
free the boat. Of course advice was handed out right and 
left, and many thought that they could easily get the boat 
free if they were on board. One young man in partic- 
ular who was nicely dressed seemed to know it all, and 
he was telling the crowd just what should be done. An 
old riverman stepped up to him and asked: 
“Young man, can you tell me how many ropes there 
are on that schooner?” 
The young fellow glanced up at the maze of ropes and 
said that he thought there must be at least a hundred. 
Chispa of San Francisco. 
Others gave various guesses, and the riverman turned 
away with a smile, as he said : 
“There is only one rope on that boat and every other 
boat, my friend, and that is the bucket rope. All the 
others have names.” — Albany Journal. 
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LURLINE. 
An Ocean Race. 
From San Francisco to Honolulu. 
Long-distance racing has now reached the Pacific side 
of the continent, and a race from San Francisco to Hono- 
lulu next summer is an assured fact.; The Hawaii pro-" 
motion committee have offered a valuable trophy for a 
yacht race across the 2,100 miles of ocean to Honolulu. 
The yachtsmen of the Pacific Coast, from San Diego to 
Seattle, are hailing the event with genuine delight, and 
there will be many entries for the race. Nothing of the 
kind has ever been held on the Pacific before, and it will 
bring out the sea-going boats that have not been in the 
habit of venturing far. off shore. This event will create a- 
new interest in the sport, and open the wide cruising 
ground that the great Pacific Ocean offers. Hawaii is the 
