The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 10, 1952, Page 6

Panes THE KEY wast CITIZEN Monday, Aovermber Te, 1952 Marathon Yacht Club's 2nd Regatta A Huge Success. The Caroline ¥. Wins Second Place Sleek Suicides Sail To Finish THE WINNING CLASS of boats in the Marathon Regatta last Sunday were the Suicides pictured of which there were six full sized entries. The little 14 foot Gannet Class racing dinghy of Lt. Comdr. Joe Brooks of. the British Destroyer: HMS Rocket, is shown in the right back- ground. .Though out of her class, the Gannet. raced with the bigger boats coming in seventh out of seven. Brooks brought his Gannet over on the Rocket last August. He and it are still in Key West though the Rocket departed last Saturday. The Royal Navy officer would like to sell the 14 foot boat: of molded one-quarter inch ply- wood before he leaves for the United Kingdom in three weeks. It has 130 square feet of sail. Brooks has served as liason man between the Rocket and Surface Anti-Submarine De- velopment Detachment. Marathon Commodore Bartelt, Wife And Racer The Marathon Regatta with its crowd of out-of-town yachtsmen points ; the way to possibilities for Key West. Key Westers, present at the regatta, expressed hope that some day the Island City might have the splendid facilities for visiting yachismen provided by the Marathon residents. These include six yacht basins, several hurricane harbors, yachtels and marinas. These facilities make Marathon the usual Keys stop for the big yachts, rather All Photos By Citizen Photographer Ellis Finck than Key West, which lacks any marinas or yacht basins at present. SWIFT AS LIGHTNING, the name of her class, this yacht, skip- pered by Dooley Glander, took second place in the Regatta. Glander is out of the Coconut Grové Sailing Club which ,com- pletely dominated the Lightning class races, with 100 percent Capt. “p arky” ' Coconut Grove racing. Parkhursit’s Bon Ami THE RACING COMMITTEE BOAT THE COMMITTEE, of which one member, Mrs. Liz Willer of Miami Yacht club is shown in white, started and stopped the races in the Regatta from the charter boat of Marathon’s own Capt. Parkhurst. Mrs. Parkhurst helped Parky as usual’ skipper this boat. Com- modore Arthur Bosworth, Flor- ida’s pioneer sailing enthusiast, and first commodore of the Miami Yacht club, headed the racing committee. He congratu- - = lated the Marathon Club for its WES BARTELT AND HIS WIFE BAKBARA, who did much of races which were marked by the hard work to make the Regatta a success, take a minute no protests filed on the results off between races with little Jack Wirt whose father skippered chalked up by the committee. Byo Boy, his Rhodes Bantam, The youngster crewed for him, Mrs, Bartelt, who is secretary of the Marathon yacht club, took Regatta Champion Gwynn, Mrs.Gw yn charge of registration for the gala Sunday. ee = be Marathon Yachting Pioneers CHET TINGLER, left, General Regatta chairman and fir modore of the Marathon Yacht club when he helped fou 1951, and present vice-commodore of the club, Walter land, Tingler, more than any. single person on the Keys. is responsible for developi yachting. With such yact ‘ r-all in e classe r spe and and, Wes Bartelt mi commodore, he has bu : . > with his wif s of M sig PRCA ELLIS FINCH flew over the Gulf in front of the Marathon Chember of Commerce in Commodore b to its present me unt? ef 42 < i ‘ ate a om s Bar ‘s Eronea, piloted by fhe Commodore. A cro from Miami, Key West. the upper Keys 2nd Marathen put on ais nat 3 Raghav 2 ns a ties in- th on We " ed th ting rege : shove, Photogroy nch end reposter Susan McAvoy ciwerved from @ fast ov the Gabe eassience. Us, gold trophy presented u th m Yacht club board, skippered by Walter Cz sland, vice-cotmodore of the Yacht chub. oo)