|
2003 NHRA News Archive
November 2003 - '04 Championship Dates Announced  Please check the Championship Page, details will be posted as announced --Stay tuned
October 2003 - Pamlico Cup Hospice Regatta - First Year! Ron Medlin Jr. is the winner of PHRF "B" and overall winner of the 2003 Pamlico Cup Hospice Regatta. He will represent the Pamlico River area in the 2004 National Hospice Regatta. Ron and his team sailed to victory on "Bash", which he owns and skippers.
October 13, 2003 - Hospice "Turkey Shoot"
Regatta for Classic Boats The thirteenth Annual Turkey Shoot Regatta was held on Saturday and Sunday October 11 and 12 at Yankee Point Marina with 91 boats participating. The sailing was great with strong winds on both days. Saturday the race was on a triangular course amid 18 knots of wind under grey skies and occasional rain. Sunday was a pursuit race with the slowest boat starting first sailed under sunny skies. Awards were presented by local author, Larry S. Chowning the honorary chair of the regatta. Jack Moseley sailing Tusitala received the Virginia Spirit Cup as the overall winner of the Large Boat Regatta. As the overall winner, Moseley will represent the Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta at Annapolis in the National Hospice Regatta next spring. He will race against winners of 20 other hospice regattas.
Please visit the "Turkey Shoot" page for more information on this years regatta.
October 6, 2003 - Turkey Shoot News The Largest Hospice Regatta in The Country Will Take Place This Weekend on The Northern Neck Volunteers are busy finalizing plans for the 13th Annual Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta, to be held October 10, 11, and 12 at Yankee Point Marina in Lancaster. Drawing competition from as far away as Tampa, Florida where skipper, Pat Crump and his crew Ned Goss, the Fireball National Champions for the past two years, will be trailering their boat up to compete, it promises to be an exciting weekend.
Sailors and spectators are all welcome to join in the festivities. If you haven’t already done so, you can still register to race on Friday. The weekend will begin Friday night with a Happy Hour at Yankee Point Yacht Club from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Come meet the author and regatta honorary chairman, Larry Chowning, and enjoy music by Steve Keith, partake of hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and join in the fun with all those committed to helping hospice as they have a good time. Please visit the "Turkey Shoot" page for more information on this years regatta. Renowned Fireball National and North American Winners To Compete in Local Hospice Turkey Shoot Now that our local hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta is the largest in the country, it is beginning to gain national attention and draw serious sailors from other states. Patrick Crump and Ned Goss are trailering their boat from Tampa,
Florida to compete Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th in the
annual Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta at Yankee Point Marina. Pat has won the Fireball Nationals six times, five times as a skipper and once as a crew. He also won the North American championship in 1999, and he has won most Fireball titles at one time or another including some Canadian events. Crump has been sailing Fireballs for 32 years. He started sailing them as a junior sailor, and though he has sailed many other boats, the Fireball remains his favorite. He grew up sailing Thistles in Connecticut where his father raised his kids as a sailing and racing family. Through the years, he raced Blue Jays, Lightnings, Thistles, Stars, 505s, Flying Dutchmen, Lasers, and other small boats, as well as a fair number of large boats. Please visit the "Turkey Shoot" page for more information on the Fireball Team years regatta. September 29, 2003 - Turkey Shoot News Release “Lady Issy” Damages Docks but The Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta is Still a Go Intrepid, civic-minded sailors undaunted by Isabel’s havoc ready their boats for the 13th annual Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta October 10, 11 and 12th. Boats were hauled and secured in creeks all over the bay in preparation
for Isabel’s arrival. It’s no small task to haul and
then re-launch 78 boats, but that’s what has been happening
on Myer Creek at Yankee Point Marina. A full court press is on so
all contenders will have their boats in the water and ready for
the regatta.
September 2003 - Hospice Regatta of Southeastern Connecticut This years Hosice Regatta of Southeastern
Connecticut Winner was Stonington Dinghy Club captained by Thomas
A. "Tucker" Bragdon.
September 15, 2003 - Turkey Shoot News Release
The Rev. John Farmer, a boating enthusiast, will serve as narrator, providing spectators with details on each of the boats. As they cross the finish line, they will sail around the Miss Ann so that the spectators can cast their votes for the best-looking sailboat. The skipper of the winning boat will be awarded the Most Beautiful Classic Boat Trophy. The Miss Ann has a long and colorful history. In August 1924, John H. French, a Detroit banker, industrialist, and yacht collector, hired D.B. Dobson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to design the fastest and most stable twin diesel yacht of the time. Shortly thereafter he contracted with Pusey & Jones, a well-known shipyard of Wilmington, DE, to transform Dobson's design into one of the finest diesel yachts in America. Please visit the "Turkey Shoot" page for more information on Miss Ann and this years regatta.
This years Hospice "Charity Cup" Regatta Winner was Bob Wardwell and his boat "Killshot" a J 29 boat class sail boat from the Henderson Harbor New York Yacht Club.
July 11-12, 2003 - Stein Hospice Cup 2003 Bruce Roberts and his
red boat were one of the many sailors unable to finish the rugged
weather during the Sandusky Islands Race. His spirit and crew persevered
and that red boat named Outlaw took both the Harry
Boissoneault Memorial Trophy and
Hospice Cup during the fourth annual Stein Hospice Cup Regatta.
Please visit the Stein Hospice Cup's page for details
July 8, 2003 - Turkey Shoot News Release A Dismasting at Last Year's Start Didn't Deter Lee Williams from being First to Register for This Year's Turkey Shoot Regatta. In an unfortunate accident, at the start of last year's regatta,
Lee Williams' centerboard daysailer "Poe Bird"
was dismasted. Refusing to concede, the resolute Doctor applied
a splint to the fractured spar. The spirit was willing, but the
aluminum was weak, and Lee had to retire and race another day. Please visit 'Turkey Shoot" page for Press
Release announcing Lee Williams registration and
June 1, 2003 - Lake Norman Hospice Regatta Congratulations to Richard Jones and crew sailing on "Outrageous" as winners of the Third Annual Lake Norman Hospice Regatta!
Please visit Lake Norman Hospice Regatta page for details.
June 2003 - Hospice of the North Shore Regatta 2003 Tops Records The rainy skies Friday night didn't dampen the festivities for a crowd of more than 300 at the 9th Annual Auction and Regatta for Hospice of the North Shore (HNS). Hosted by Marblehead's Eastern Yacht Club, the guests feasted on lobster and then bid on 34 auction items, helping HNS to raise $200,000, the single largest total in the event's nine-year history.
Please visit Hospice of the North Shore Regatta's page for details
June 7, 2003 - Hospice Cup Regatta of Oswego
County Oswego Yacht Club and the Friends of Oswego County Hospice hosted the 4th annual Hospice Cup Regatta on Saturday, June 7. Brendan Benson sailing on Blaze edged out Bob Porter on Hiawatha to win the overall trophy in a three race regatta that had Blaze and Hiawatha tied for first place in both their division standing and the overall win.
Please visit Hospice Cup Regatta of Oswego County for more details of the "03 regatta or the Oswego County Hospice Cup website for '03 Regatta Results & Photo Gallery
Please visit 'Turkey Shoot" page for Press Release Announcing Larry Chowning as Honorary Chair.
May 2003 - Regatta Sailors Race for HospiceCare
of Southeast Florida
Hospice Regatta 2003, co-chaired by J.D. Thrower and Ned Cray, invited all sailboat racing and cruising enthusiasts back to the beautiful waters off Fort Lauderdale Beach to raise funds for HospiceCare of Southeast Florida, Inc. For the seventh straight year, the Hospice Regatta, which has grown into an extremely popular event, had sailors racing and spectators enjoying the atmosphere off Fort Lauderdale Beach Saturday, May 17, 2003. Please visit Florida-Ft. Lauderdale page for futher regatta information.
June 2003 - 2004 Championship Announcement
The National Hospice Regatta Alliance announces:
May 2003 - Three More Hospices Join to Sponsor
the Annual Turkey Shoot
Regatta Nothing succeeds like success, and this year, the eighth year the Turkey Shoot Regatta has been run as the major fund-raiser for the all-volunteer Hospice Support Services of the Northern Neck, three more local hospices have decided to form an alliance and help sponsor the event. The goal is to register more than 125 boats, and the Support Services of the Northern Neck hopes to raise over $30,000 in the 2003 regatta. Riverside Tappahannock Hospice, Riverside Walter Reed Hospice out
of Gloucester, and newly formed Hospice Support Care of Middlesex
County will for the first time, join the Hospice Support Services
of the Northern Neck in the Turkey Shoot fundraiser this October.
Riverside Tappahannock Hospice and Riverside Walter Reed Hospice
are both part of the Riverside Health System. They are medical hospices
providing nursing and medical care as well as trained volunteer
support under the guidance of the patient's own physician. They
are paid by insurance plans, however, they do not turn anyone down
for lack of payment. Funds from
April 13, 2003 - National Hospice Regatta Championship 2003 Team San Francisco, CA - Wins the 2003 National
Hospice Championship http://www.hospiceregattas.org/regatta_03.shtml
April 13, 2003 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Article A Buoyed Spirit - Irondequoit's
Keith Burhans happily sails on after surfacing from adversity -
By Gary Fallesen
It was a titanically bad time in the Irondequoit sailor’s life. His paternal grandmother died in January of that year, his dad died in June, and he lost his legs in a boating accident in July. ’’Everybody has to go through adversity,’’ says Burhans, 46. ‘’You have to handle things as they come along.” Burhans surfaced from the depths of that year as one of America’s brightest stars in the world of disabled sailing. Combine that with his gratitude for hospice care -- which guided his family through the end of his dad’s battle with cancer -- and you have a passionate skipper participating in the National Hospice Regatta this weekend in Annapolis, Md. ’’Unless you’ve ever used it, you wouldn’t know what they’re doing,’’ Burhans says about hospices. ‘’There are so many distractions when you’re grieving. The help they give is priceless.’’ Burhans -- with an able-bodied crew consisting of his brother Bryan and fellow longtime Rochester Yacht Club members Marc Fischer and Terry Shannon -- beat 84 boats to win the fourth annual Rochester Hospice Regatta in August and qualify for the national championship. He did so in the name of Robert ‘’Woofie’’ Lawless, an old sailing mate who died in the care of the Genesee Region hospice in September. ’’He’s very motivational and so focused,’’ Fischer, 38, says about Burhans, who taught him how to sail 20 years ago. ’’Talk about a guy who took an awful experience and made another life’s goal, and achieved it at that. It would have been so easy for him to stay at home and feel sorry for himself. But he took the opposite tack. He’s an amazing person.’’ Nightmare of 1995 - Burhans is a fourth-generation president of his family owned, 135-year-old business -- specialty advertising distributor Harry H. Moore Corp. He is married (wife Susanne) and the father of two girls, Kristen and Allison. He was sailing through life when he struck 1995, a year that could have sunk his heart, if not his spirit, if he hadn’t been anchored in his Christian faith. His dad, William, who had battled cancer six years before, was on his second hip replacement before Christmas 1994 when they discovered his left hip had been invaded with bone cancer. The following month, Keith’s grandmother died. Then, as William’s fight with cancer wound down, the family found itself spending much of the last month of the 67-year-old’s life at the Niagara Frontier Hospice. It made a deep impression on Keith, who says now: ‘’If I couldn’t expire at home, going to a Sunset House or comparable hospice care is the next best option.’’ Keith Burhans needed medical attention himself on July 30, 1995, and in the days and weeks that followed. While fishing with his daughters, Keith’s boat was struck by another boat. As he dove to rescue one of the girls, the propeller from the other boat slashed his shins. He lost both legs below his knees. Miraculously, Burhans was back sailing that fall. A crew member aboard the 1985 world champion 8-Metre boat, Golden Feather, and a longtime Soling racer, he landed on both artificial feet. ’’He has redefined ‘the glass is half full,’ ‘’ says Fischer, who is Burhans’ tactician in Annapolis. ‘’He’s the epitome of an optimist.’’ Pleasure boating - ’’He’s a pleasure to sail with because he can make a frightening situation not so frightening,’’ Fischer says. At the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials in Punta Gorda, Fla., Fischer was skipper and Burhans the tactician of their Soling class boat. The pair were in the middle of two Great Lakes Championship seasons. ’’We were in a 45-knot squall, the boat was full of water, and he’s laughing,’’ Fischer recalls. ‘’He’s laughing in a very tenuous situation.’’ His attitude has not changed. Fischer says the 1995 boating accident was ‘’just one more challenge that he had to face in life, that he was not going to let it get ahead of him.’’ By 2000, Burhans was crewing for the U.S. team that finished seventh at the Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. He remains aboard the country’s top boat in the Sonar class. Burhans, quadriplegic skipper Paul Callahan of Providence, R.I., and new hand Mike Hearsey, a one-legged sailor from Hyannis, Mass., recently won the disabled Mid-Winter championship in St. Petersburg, Fla. ’’We’re getting more confident,’’ Burhans says, referring to the team’s bid for a spot in the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, Greece. ‘’We came out of this regatta knowing we have some darn good speed.’’ That’s because of the seat that Burhans put his skipper in . ’’It took 1 1/2 years to design and build a seat allowing him to rotate from side to side,’’ Burhans explains. Previously, Callahan was positioned stationary on one side of the boat. While other skippers could shift weight to the downwind side, Callahan could not. Despite that weakness, Callahan and Burhans became the top Sonar team in America. Setting Paralympic sail - ’’When I met Paul he was a brand-new sailor,’’ Burhans says, ‘’and he was by far the most compromised sailor who wanted to play at this level.’’ No other Paralympic skipper is a quadriplegic. To reach the Olympics of disabled sailing, Burhans recognizes, was ‘’a big deal.’’ He was proud of the team’s finish in Sydney, but he figured Callahan would not settle for anything less than a medal. ’’I knew he was going to ask me (to sail for the Paralympics) again,’’ says Burhans. ‘’This technology we have now is a huge leap.’’ That was exhibited in their Mid-Winter victory over four other U.S. boats, four teams from Europe, and the Paralympics bronze medalists from Canada. ’’It was a good chance to see how we stack up with the international guys,’’ says Burhans, who will race for the Disabled World Cup in September in Athens and hopes to qualify for the Paralympics in November in St. Pete. Preparing for the Paralympics is a second job. - As much as he might love it, there is still a lot of work involved. He readies and maintains two boats -- one in Florida and the other Sonar at the Rochester Yacht Club. Sailing in the National Hospice Regatta is a break for Burhans. The Rochester crew is using a loaned J/105 racing yacht, the same boat as the 17 other hospice regatta winners who qualified. This weekend of races is ‘’an opportunity to bring awareness to an organization that clearly has an underappreciated mission,’’ Burhans says. ‘’They do good work.’’ Priceless work. Something Burhans values from past experience. An appreciation, like others he has, that was raised from the sunken moments in his life. E-mail address: gfallesn@DemocratandChronicle.com
March 2003 - New - California Regatta The National Hospice Regatta Alliance is proud
to announce:
March 2003 - New - Florida Regatta The National Hospice Regatta Alliance is proud
to announce:
February 2003 - New - North Carolina Regatta The National Hospice Regatta Alliance is proud to announce:
January 12, 2003 - MEDIA ADVISORY When: April 11-13, 2003 Who: The National Hospice Regatta Championship is organized by the National Hospice Regatta Alliance, a network for the growing number of hospice regattas held nationwide. The championship is supported by national sponsor money and in-kind contributions or discounts for championship expenses. What: Annapolis, Maryland will host the 4th Annual National Hospice Regatta Championship - the first and only national sailing championship for charity. Regatta Chairman is Michael Lague and Honorary Chairperson is Honorable Ellen Moyers, Mayor of Annapolis. Winning skippers and teams from the 18 hospice regattas held in 2002 throughout the U.S. will compete on loaned J/105 racing yachts for the national championship to help publicize the regional regattas and raise funds for the charitable work of hospice. Hospice care helps adults and children who are terminally ill, without regard to ability to pay. Many hospice services are not covered by insurance. Each program treats and comforts terminally ill patients and their families, at home or in a home- like setting. Where: Races will be held on the
Chesapeake Bay Visuals: Possible Interviews: '03 - Championship
Home | About Us | News | Sailing Year 2008 | Championship 2008 | Sailing Year 2007 | Archives | Contact NHRA hospiceregattas.org Last Update 8.13.08
|
Overall Winner of the Regatta is Jack Moseley and his crew aboard
the Tusitala (L to R - Hunter Davidson, Judy Buis, Anne Davidson,
Coleman Davidson, Larry Chowning, Owen Davidson, Jack Moseley, Jere
Dennison and Betty Anne Harsh)
Photo by Crow's Nest Photography
78 boats were hauled in 44 hours and none sustained any storm damage
Vern Polidoro, the winning skipper, is congratulated by Judy Jacobi,
Marblehead selectwoman.
