The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-02-03
MANY VESSELS
To BERTH HERE
DURING MARCH
PLANS ARE BEING MADE TO
ENTERTAIN GROUP OF MO.
TOR AND SAIL CRAFT EN-
THUSIASTS FROM MIAMI

Plans for entertaining a group
of sail and motor craft enthusiasts
from MAN here during the mid
die of March were being made
today. Present plans, which have
been worked out by the Biscayne
Bay Yacht Club of Miami, indi-
cate that the Key West Yacht
Basin will be filled with sailboats
and motor craft the weekend of
March Fl, for the annual sailing
race to st. Petersburg which here
tofore has started from Miami but
will this year start from Key
West.
In a letter to Norberg Thomp-
son, Wirth Munroe, chairman of
the regatta committee of the Mi
ami yacht club, outlined the plans
for starting the race from Key
West, pointing out that as a fore
runner of that race a cruise will
be staged from Miami to the Is
land City just prior to the launch
ing of the race to st. Petersburg.
While plans are being laid for
entertaining a large number of
visiting yachtsmen and boat en-
thusiasts from Miami, details al
so are being worked out for stag
ing the annual Havana-Key West
sailing race which follows imme-
diately the St., Petersburg-Ha-
vana race.
Last spring a score of sailing
craft lay in the yacht basin here,
following completion of the race
from Havana to Key West, and
throughout the country sports
pages of newspapers carried ac-
counts of that race The visitors
were entertained with tea
dance at Raups Club, and later
in the evening were given a din
ner at the Delmonico Restaurant.
Details relative to the entertain
ment following this race have not
yet been worked out completely
for this year.
While attention will be focus
ed on the annual Havana-Key
West race, a larger number of
craft is expected to be in the har-
Dor previous to that when the
Key West-St. Petersburg races are
launched. In addition to the sail
boats participating in the race,
many persons expect to come
down for the cruise and to see
the start of the races.
This year the race committee
(of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club)
has changed this (the former
I program) and plans to run a
cruise for both power and sail
ing yachts from here to your city
and then start the sailing race
from there to St. Petersburg" Mr..
Munroe wrote in his letter.
According to present plans the
fleet will leave Miami the morn
ing of March 10, and all partici-
pants are expected to have
reached Key West by the after
noon of Saturday, March 21. All
of Sunday will be spent in Key
West and the Key West-St. Pc
tersburg race will get under way
the morning of March %.
With the layover time which
has been scheduled in Key West,
the yachtsmen will have an OPP
portunity to get better sacquaint-
ed with Key West, it was, point
ed out, this morning. Details for
the visitors entertainment must
be worked out, however. o4
Mr.. Thompson today asked
Glen C. Price, in charge of rec
reation in the local WPA, to car
ry on the detail work in .connec-
ton with the visit, recalling that
he did excellent work in this con-
nection last year when the first
annual Havana-Key West race was
run. Others who worked in con-
nection with last years race as
the starting committee included
Mr.. Thompson, William r. Por-
ter and ]. Gerry Curtis.