Seattle Daily Times (published as THE SEATTLE DAILY TIMES) – June 20, 1932 – page 12
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CIRCE FINISHES 150-MILE RACE FAR OUT AHEAD
Protection Island’s Extreme Point Attained and Passed by Cooke as Wind Fails, Tide Turns; Rivals Stop
By JOHN H. DREHER
Let the flags salute, the guns shoot and the whistles toot—for the good sloop Circe; her skipper, Ray Cooke, and his crew.
A good boat well sailed, the Circe won the big sailing race of the season thus far on the Seattle Yacht Club’s season’s program, which is to say, the Protection Island race, a 120-mile cruise from the club’s Shilshole Bay station around Protection, and back to the station again.
Eight boats left Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock for the long race and three others set out on the shorter course to Point Hudson and back. The Circe finished at 2:31:30 yesterday, or exact running time 28½ minutes short of a full twenty-four-hour day, which is the record for the Protection Island race, a test of sailing craft under the S. Y. C. direction that has been going on for many years.
Circe Never Headed
The Circe had taken the lead at the start of the race and ever after that the rest of them took her dust. First around the island, with Gwendolyn II, Skipper Fritz Hellenthal, following and Gwendolyn I, sailed by O. A. Davis, in third position, the Circe started the return procession.
In all games and sports there is a saying that there is such a thing as luck; but that in the final analysis it favors the good player. The Circe got one of those breaks at the most critical period of the race.