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2005 NHRA News November, 2005 -- The 2006 National Hospice Regatta Championship will be held May 12-14, 2006, at Annapolis, Maryland. Winning skippers representing the 22 hospice regattas held this year will compete for national honors and to promote hospice care. Team skippers will be contacted directly by Championship Chair Lucy Melvin and Event Organizer Linda Ambrose, to establish communications and confirm their participation. For further news as available, check back here. For preliminary planning, see the web information for last year's championship. Championship 2005
October 2, 2005 -- Rappahannock River, Virginia Turkey Shoot Regatta -- By Tom Neale
The annual Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta drew 85 sailboats for last weekend's races on the Rappahannock River.
For the entire Rappahannock Record coverage see front page news and for complete article select /archives /10-6-05/ section A at: www.rrecord.com
September 15 2005 -- Rappahannock Record, Kilmarnock
VA The Virginia Spirit Cup, which is awarded to the winner of the
Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta, is on display at the West Marine Store
in Deltaville. The name of the winner’s boat will be engraved
on the cup.
Read all of the article .... Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta NHRA page
September 11, 2005 -- Santa Barbara, CA The newest hospice regatta was a WILD success! The first Santa Barbara YC Charity Regatta had a goal to raise $20,000 for Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care of Santa Barbara. That amount was far exceeded, reaching almost $75,000. Many sponsors have already committed to next year, and the sailors are planning for it. More details soon.
September 10, 2005
-- Annapolis, MD
The oldest hospice regatta was also wildly successful, though not in the racing. Hospice Cup XXIV, raised almost $600,000 for eight hospices in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia, who all agreed to dedicate 10% of the gross proceeds to hospice organizations affected by Hurricane Katrina, to be donated through the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. As for the racing, with little or no wind, only 5 groups of the 90+ racing boats actually sailed a race. However, a good time was had by sponsor-spectators and sailors alike at the grand shore party. More details soon.
August 7, 2005 -- Hampton Roads,Virginia 11th Annual Hampton Roads Hospice Regatta winners:
Andy & Virginia Armstrong. Read the article from Southern Bay Racing News....Hampton Roads Hospice Regatta NHRA page
August 5, 2005 - New Hospice Regatta on Lake Michigan
The Dr. Lory Schults Memorial Lady Skipper Regatta, St. Joseph, Michigan FIRST YEAR The Dr. Lory Schults Memorial Lady Skipper Regatta, St. Joseph, Michigan is the newest member of the National Hospice Regatta Alliance, an association of charity sailboat regattas that raise money and awareness for Hospice Care. In its second year benefiting Lory's Place, a bereavement program for children which is associated with Hospice at Home, the Lady Skipper Regatta is hosted by the St. Joseph River Yacht Club. More...The Dr. Lory Schults Memorial Lady Skipper Regatta's NHRA Page
July 18, 2005 - 9th Annual Hospice Regatta of Maine NEWS RELEASE - Race Results from the 9th Annual Hospice Regatta of Maine
Read the entire article on the NHRA Hospice Regatta of Maine Page
2005 HARFORD HOSPICE REGATTA EXCEEDS FUNDRAISING
GOAL
Read the entire article on the NHRA HARFORD HOSPICE REGATTA Page
June 25, 2005 - Dunes Cup VNA Hospice Regatta - FIRST YEAR
Congratulations to winning skipper Jeff Alisch and crew! See the great photos of
the first regatta and post event article on the NHRA
Dunes Cup Regatta
Page! June 4, 2005 - Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta
PORTER SAILS 'HIAWATHA'
TO CROWN IN ANNUAL HOSPICE CUP REGATTA May 24, 2005 -- Harford Hospice Regatta, Havre de Grace, MD Harford Hospice, a member of Upper Chesapeake/St. Joseph Home Care, will hold its sixth annual Harford Hospice Regatta on Friday, June 3 from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. on the grounds of the Maritime and Decoy Museums in historic Havre de Grace.
Spend an evening on the shores of the Susquehanna River and enjoy a fabulous steak and chicken dinner donated by Outback Steakhouse, along with plenty of activities and entertainment. The Havre de Grace Yacht Club provides the action as their fleet of sailboats race for the Regatta title in clear view of event goers. Read the entire release on the NHRA Harford Hospice Regatta Page.
May 24, 2005 Dunes Cup VNA Hospice Regatta, Lake Michigan, Indiana The first annual Dunes Cup VNA Hospice Regatta, a cooperative venture
of the Visiting Nurse Association of Porter County, Indiana and
the Michigan City Yacht Club in Michigan City, Indiana will be held
on Saturday, June 25, 2005. The Dunes Cup VNA Hospice Regatta is
a premier event for the organizations and the first to be held on
Lake Michigan.
Read the entire release on the NHRA Dunes Cup VNA Hospice Regatta Page.
May 14-15 -- North Carolina - Mooresville/Charlotte
Congratulations to Team Outrageous and skipper Michael Jones of Wrightsville Beach, NC for his victory in the 5th Annual Lake Norman Hospice Regatta. With this win, Jones qualifies to represent the Lake Norman Hospice Regatta in the 2006 National Hospice Regatta Alliance Championship, where he and his team will compete against the winners of the other 22 events scheduled across the country this year. Read the entire release on the 5th Annual Lake Norman Hospice Regatta NHRA Page.
David Rockerfeller, Jr. Represents Maine at the National Hospice Regatta Championship
Kessler captures National Hospice Regatta Quantum professional Scott Nixon and one-design standout Ray Wulff joined the crew of Kessler, who pulled away by winning the final two races. Nixon sells sails to Kessler and offered to trim and call tactics for this event. Wulff was a last-minute addition after one of Kessler's regular crew members was declared a Category 3 (pro) competitor. "Scott and Ray are both great sailors and their local knowledge was huge," Kessler said. "It seemed like we were always going the right way." Dick Neville of the Storm Trysail Club served as principal race officer for the three-day event, which was contested aboard donated J/105s and drew 15 skippers who won hospice-related regattas around the country. Kessler, a resident of Marietta, Ga., sails approximately 20 events per year in either a Melges 24 or Catalina 22. He qualified by taking overall honors at the Hospice Hot-S'Yacht Regatta in Lake Hartwell, S.C. Kessler's team dug itself a slight hole with a pair of on-course-side starts that resulted in finishes of nine and 13. "I was judging by a Melges 24 length instead of a J/105," said Kessler, who had never previously been aboard one of the club racers. "We did better after I stuck one of the crew (Doug Thome) on the bow to call the line." Kessler's team, which also included Lee Ann Pickering, moved from fifth to third on Saturday before vaulting into first by winning the first race on Sunday. A bullet in the final race produced a 10-point victory over Rhode Island representative Phil Lotz. "It was a great, great event. I thought the organizers did a first class job all-around," Kessler said. "We are going to do everything we can to come back and defend our title." Annapolis representative Jack Biddle finished fifth, due largely to an OCS sustained in Race 4. Biddle, a J/105 skipper, did not restart because he did not hear the race committee call him over early. "It was the opening day of rockfish season and all the fishermen were on the same radio channel as the race committee," Biddle said. "You can't afford to take an OCS in a no-throwout regatta." National Hospice Championship 1, Doug Kessler, Lake Hartwell, S.C., 35
April 23, 2005 -- Team Oswego finishes third in National Hospice Regatta Championship
Mike Ingham’s Team Oswego, based in Rochester, was the winner of the Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta held June 5, 2004 on the shores of Lake Ontario along with his crew consisting of son, Sam; his school friend, Andy Zuber; and friends, John Baker, Joy Martin, and Don Stehle. "It has been an honor to represent Oswego County Hospice in the National Regatta. My father is in Hospice care and we are grateful that Hospice is an option and are more than happy to support Hospice and its mission," said Ingham. Ingham competed in Annapolis with team members Martin, Baker, Bobby Bryant and Don Stehle and was sponsored by Touchstone Technology Inc. in Rochester during 2004 Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta. Each year, Hospice regattas across the country send a team to the National Hospice Regatta, which not only helps to raise awareness of Hospice services throughout the country, but in the past six years has helped to raise a total of over $3 million for Hospice programs. West Marine, a national sponsor is on board again this year for both the Championship and the local regattas. In Oswego County, OCNB and PathFinder Banks support the Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta as the flagship sponsors and have been the major sponsors since the first Hospice Regatta six years ago. This year, Entergy Nuclear’s James A. FitzPatrick Plant is sponsoring both the Regatta Sailboat Race and is serving as the sponsor of the local race winner. The Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta will take place June 4 on the shores of Lake Ontario. Other events this year include the 5K Walk/Run for Hope, which is sponsored by Constellation Energy and organized by the Oswego YMCA. In addition, a full day of children’s activities, sponsored by Oswego County OB-GYN and organized by Friends of Hospice volunteers, will take place in the Breitbeck Park Pavilion area from 10am until 4pm.
Rochester, NY - RCR Yachts Racer's News #112 - April 20, 2005 
RCR Yachts Racer's News #112, April 20, 2005What's New? By Don Finkle Last weekend my crew and I enjoyed one of the best sailing experiences I can recall, the National Hospice Regatta Championship in Annapolis. Full details are included in the report below, but I have to say a few things for those of you who may not take the time to read the entire report. The Hospice Alliance is a wonderful group who do some marvelous things for families during their period of greatest need. The event itself was exceptionally well done and we competitors were treated royally. The sponsors gave generously, and our hosts were extremely gracious. Those of us who had the opportunity to go were very lucky indeed. The second local race of the season (not counting frostbite racing) took place last Sunday. ...I ran into some of the Rochester frostbite sailors at the Hospice Championship when we were fighting for bar space at "The Boatyard" in Annapolis. They reminded me once again of the successful program they run at RYC each winter, getting as many as 20 races in on any given Sunday..... While we were in Annapolis the College Keelboat Championship for the Kennedy Cup was being sailed a mile or two away in Navy 44s. Local sailor Morgan Paxhia skippered the URI team to third place. ...Sailors are fun people to hang out with, especially racing sailors. I am reminded of that at every regatta we attend. Win or lose, good weather or bad, the camaraderie is always worth the trip. ...National Hospice Championship Racing Recap: As mentioned in my opening remarks I felt very privileged to be a part of this wonderful event with my crew. There are so many things to like about this regatta, anyone who races should want to try to qualify at the local level so you can go to Nationals. There were some excellent sailors there, each crew needing to win their local regatta to earn a berth. You have heard me say before that competing against better sailors only helps to raise your own skill level. It is also much more satisfying when you manage to do well. We had spectacular weather, with good breeze every day, which meant we got in all eight scheduled races. The boats being sailed were J/105s generously loaned for the event by members of the local fleet. Either the owner or one of their representatives was aboard, plus each team could bring a total of five sailors. The owners/reps could not steer or trim a sheet, but they could do halyards and help with local and boat knowledge. We each drew numbers out of a hat, which determined which boats we would sail, with a different boat each day. The sail inventory consisted of three sails: main, class working jib on a furler, and class asymmetrical spinnaker on retractable bowsprit. Owners put their old sails aboard, not wanting to loan their best racing suit of course, so the sails do vary from one boat to another. In the three days of racing we felt that the sails were not that much of a factor from one boat to another. This minimum inventory is one attraction of the J/105, which has very strict one design rules. The boats are really easy to handle, but take some getting used to. Our crew on Team Niagara included Tim Booth, John Goller, Paul Hays and Chris Hesse, with me on the helm. These guys usually sail J/22s and occasionally bigger boats like 1D35s and Beneteau 36.7s. None of us knew much about the finer points of sailing a J/105, so we figured that we would take our lumps for the first few races, but then expected to do better. On the first day we had 20 knots of wind and some very cool temps. This made for super racing and fun rides. It also meant that those of us who are unfamiliar with asymmetrical spinnakers had ample opportunity to crash, burn and embarrass ourselves. There were 15 boats in the fleet on a rather short line, making us a tad nervous with a borrowed boat. In any case in the first race we got off the line in great shape and were fourth at the weather mark. So far, so good. Then we tried to set the chute and created the most awful mess of tangled nylon and rope you can imagine. I think I compounded this by calling for a jibe which made it worse. We spent the entire leg without a spinnaker up as boats paraded by. We went from 4th to 12th on one leg. Bummer! On the final run home we got the chute sorted out and passed Kirk Reynolds' Team Henderson Harbor floundering, dead in the water with no spinnaker up. This was a boost to us because we knew these guys would be really tough over the course of the series, and after our own mess we were not feeling too sympathetic. It was not until that night at The Boatyard Bar & Grill that we learned that two of the crew, Justin DaMore and Jon Faudree, had gone overboard during this framus. Justin went under the boat and behind the keel, having to find and unwrap the sheet from his leg before surfacing. The second race of day one saw us get another excellent start and round the top mark in 3rd. We got the chute up OK, but were slow downwind and dropped a few spots. On the final run home team Henderson Harbor passed us because they worked the boat harder on the waves. We realized afterward that we should have been pushing the boat more aggressively, getting a longer surf out of each wave. We ended up 6th, leaving us in 11th place, but the scores for many of our competitors were close to ours. Two teams who regularly sail J/105s from RI and Annapolis stood 1-2, not unexpected as the rest of us learned the boat. We felt good about our starts and our upwind speed, and figured that we would improve as the series went on. Most of all we had a super day of sailing. Friday night we ran into a bunch of sailors from Upstate NY at The Boatyard, and we all swapped stories as usual. Mike Ingham of Rochester on Team Oswego introduced his "bunch of Thistle sailors", including Bobby Bryant. They won the second race and were standing third. Other locals there included DaMore, Wehrheim, Enwright, Faudree, etc. Day two dawned with sunshine once more, slightly warmer temps, and a 15 knot breeze. The wind dropped as the day went on, but picked back up again so we could get 4 races in. We now felt that we could sail with this crowd without looking like total chumps, and we had figured out the spinnaker enough so that we could concentrate more on downwind tactics. The game plan was to avoid the tidal current that everyone had told us to watch out for. This turned out to be our undoing as we won the pin end and promptly headed left where we figured there would be less current. It turned out that we got pinned there way too long and dropped a ton of boats on the beat. The current advantage never became apparent, but the shift the guys on the right side of the course got sure was. So we vowed to head right on the second beat, only to have the boats who had not passed us on the first beat now do so as the left side became favored. The only saving grace to our next-to-last finish was that Day One's leader Phil Lotz was dead last. We knew that we were going pretty fast and so we chalked that race up to stupidity and moved on. In the next race we found our downwind speed and smarts, passing boats on each run by jibing quickly at the offset mark and heading left in clear air. We ended up fifth and felt much better. Things continued to improve as we had a great next race and ended up winning. Now that's more like it. In the fourth and final race of the day we were overlapped with Mike Ingham's Team Oswego at the bottom of the run, with just the final beat to the finish. We both had a nice lead over the third place boat. Here we (mostly me) got real stupid. The plan was to slow down a bit, round the right gate behind Mike and make a clearing tack. Then we would tack back and continue up the left side which had been favored on leg one. Unfortunately we slowed down too much and came around the gate mark with very little speed. I then compounded the error by calling for the clearing tack before we got up to speed. With the parade of chutes now coming down on us I tacked back again to starboard, still too slow. This allowed the boat that was in third to round with speed and take off to leeward. They would now be first to reach any favorable knock. One thing I have learned is that when you make one mistake it can lead to poor judgment and more mistakes follow. This is what happened here. By this point we had blown our chance to catch Team Oswego and were going to be battling the boat ahead and to leeward for second. My frustration for blowing the rounding, followed by two slow tacks, had taken my mind off the game. Part way up the final beat Mike tacked back to port to consolidate and stay in touch with the bunch of boats that had gone off on the right side. Paul Hays of our crew suggested we do the same, but I was still thinking that we might catch Mike by staying left. This resulted in us losing ground to a number of boats on the right as they caught a big shift. Paul was right, and if we had tacked when he wanted us to we would likely have finished second, or third at worst. But wait, there is one more example of brain-lag to come. As we approached the port tack layline the inshore boat came over on port and for some reason that I am at a loss to explain, I elected to cross them on starboard and then tack over for the finish. The shift lifted them up, so we overstood and ended up crossing the line in 6th. There was much more frustration over blowing the last leg of this race than there was joy in winning the race before. There are several lessons that needed to be re-learned here. First, make sure you have sufficient boatspeed before tacking or jibing. Second, don't let one mistake turn into two or three, forget it and get your head back in the game. But the biggest mistake of all is yet to come. After the race on the way in, when we were replaying it to discuss what we should have done differently, it dawned on me that I had chosen the wrong course of action in the first place. We were virtually neck-and-neck with Oswego approaching the leeward gate, but they were to starboard and hence closer and had the inside overlap on the right-hand gate. Knowing that we would have to give them room, slow down and round behind and then make two clearing tacks, we should have taken the left gate. A jibe to port once we knew we would have to give Mike room would have given us a fast rounding on the left gate and set us off on the beat with full speed. It would also have given us the distance to windward and inside to keep clear of him and allow us to get back right on any shift. So at the end of Day Two we stood in 9th place overall, but we knew we were going much better and had a win to prove it. Mike Ingham and Team Oswego were in second with two wins, and Kirk Reynolds and team Henderson Harbor had four top-5's in six races. Gunnar Richardson skippering Team Rochester had a third place finish in one race, so we felt pretty good about Lake Ontario's showing. Next week, Day Three and final results. The National Hospice Event Itself: In the article above we discussed the racing, now I'd like to tell you a bit about Hospice Regattas in general, and the National Championship in particular. There were 19 Hospice Regattas held nationally in 2004, and the winner of each one is invited to compete in the National Championship, held in five of the last six years in Annapolis (the other year it was held in Florida). There will be four more events added in 2005, with plans for more in 2006. I heartily encourage any sailing area that does not already have a Hospice event to consider hosting one. It is a great event for a great cause. Each local regatta has a different formula for the fundraising activities that go along with the racing, and the races themselves are run differently. For example, in the Niagara County regatta hosted at YYC we donate our boats to take donors out for an afternoon cruise on Friday afternoon. On Saturday we hold up to four races, with the winner having the lowest total corrected time under PHRF. In some areas they may hold one race or a whole series of races. The total amount raised in 2004 by all the regattas combined exceeded $1.6 million! There are many volunteers who work at both the local and national levels. Sailors who went down from our area to help run the 2005 Nationals included Chief Judge Hank Stuart and his wife Mary from Rochester; Bob Elliott, also from Rochester; and Diane Quart of Buffalo. Sorry if I missed anyone. The local volunteers do most of the organizing, and one of the board members Lucy Melvin hosted a dinner party and silent auction at a neighbor's lovely bayfront property. This certainly qualified as the high rent district! Everything is extremely well done and the competitors are made to feel very special. You can't help but come home as an ambassador of this wonderful organization. Hank Stuart deserves special recognition because he was so heavily involved in the championship. He was the primary spokesman, master of ceremonies, judge, and he announced the winners of the auction and of the racing. Dick Neville was PRO and did a fine job on the race course. I was most pleased to note that the pin boat was a new Back Cove 26, the same classy Maine-built diesel powerboat that we sell here at RCR. I spoke to the owner at the party, and his last boat was the J/35 Jake that now sails out of Toronto. Back Coves are "sailor's powerboats" indeed. Check out the schedule for the Hospice Regatta nearest you. You can attend any one or more of the four local events to be held on Lake Ontario as they are open. For example, Kirk Reynolds won both the Rochester and Henderson Harbor Hospice regattas in 2005, so runner-up Brook Richardson of Rochester got to go. Mike Ingham won the Oswego Hospice, and we won the Niagara regatta. It sure would be nice to see Hospice Regattas in Buffalo and Erie for example. There is room for more than one charity event in the larger harbors if it is planned properly (i.e. one early, one late, different formats). If anyone has an interest in exploring a new event, let me know and I'll help. Entrants in Nationals included: Maine, Marblehead, Narragansett Bay, Connecticut, Annapolis, 2 from North Carolina, South Carolina, Ft Lauderdale, Naples Florida, Sandusky Ohio, and four from Lake Ontario.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Team Oswego placed third out of 15 teams during the National Hospice Regatta Championship, held in Annapolis Bay this past weekend. The sixth annual National Hospice Regatta Championship invited the winners of the 19 hospice regattas from around the nation to compete. Team Lake Hartwell of South Carolina won the national regatta. Mike Ingham's Team Oswego, from Rochester, was the winner of the Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta held on June 5, 2004 on the shores of Lake Ontario. He was helped by his crew consisting of his son Sam, his school friend Andy Zuber, and friends John Baker, Joy Martin, and Don Stehle. "It has been an honor to represent Oswego County Hospice in the national regatta. My father is in hospice care and we are grateful that hospice is an option, and are more than happy to support hospice and its mission," Ingham said. Ingham competed in Annapolis with team members Joy Martin, John Baker, Bobby Bryant, and Don Stehle, and was sponsored by Touchstone Technology Inc. in Rochester during the 2004 Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta. Each year, hospice regattas across the country send a team to the National Hospice Regatta, which not only helps to raise awareness of hospice services throughout the country, but in the past six years has helped to raise a total of over $3 million for hospice programs. West Marine, a national sponsor, is on board again this year for both the championship and the local regattas. In Oswego County, OCNB and Pathfinder Bank support the Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta as the flagship sponsors, and have been so since the first hospice regatta six years ago. This year, Entergy Nuclear James A. FitzPatrick Plant is sponsoring the regatta sailboat race and is serving as the sponsor of the local race winner. The Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta will take place on June 4 on the shores of Lake Ontario. Also that day will be the 5K Walk/Run for Hope, which is sponsored by Constellation Energy and organized by the Oswego YMCA. In addition, a full day of children's activities, sponsored by Oswego County OB-GYN and organized by Friends of Hospice volunteers, will take place in the Breitbeck Park Pavilion area from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information on the National Hospice Championship, visit www.hospiceregattas.org. To become a sponsor or receive walk/run or sailor registration
forms for the 2005 Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta, contact the
Friends of Oswego County Hospice Office at 343-5223 April 19 - Scuttlebutt newsletter The National Hospice Regatta Championships were
held this past weekend in Results:
April 17, 2005 National Hospice Championship Winners
DOUG KESSLER & Crew
- Win the 2005 National Hospice Championship For latest Championship news please click here -> News
April 2005 - SpinSheet Magazine Article - Draft Sailing for Others / Other People’s Boats
He suspected what he was getting into when, before Hospice Cup last September, he calculated what it would take to win The Hospice Cup trophy which scores three consecutive years as a series. The trophy qualifies the winner to compete in the national Championship. It was going to be close. During the same three years he was racking up points for the Hospice Cup, he also was lending his boat to the annual National Hospice Regatta Championship for use by winners from hospice regattas around the country, sailing with them as owner but not skipper. Now that he gets to compete in the Championship, he still is loaning Rum Puppy to the cause but, in the name of fairness, is not allowed to draw his own boat to race. As he stated to The Capital last Fall, “After sailing as a donating owner for three years, it will be nice to see what we can do on another J/105.” Hospice strikes a personal chord for Biddle, as it does for so many sailors and sponsors at the hospice regattas. Both of his parents passed away of cancer, but at home and comfortable with their families by their sides, because of Hospice and the many contributors and supporters who make it possible. Mike Ingham, representing the Oswego Hospice Regatta on Lake Ontario, appreciates Hospice from another point of view. His father is in his fifth year of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Hospice is part of his planned care. This is the positive side of Hospice that the regattas work so hard to support and promote. Hospice care touches the entire community with the only form of care that provides such a full range of services, many not covered by insurance, without regard to a patient’s ability to pay. "Our objective is for the Championship to spotlight the enormous breadth and teamwork of hospice care supported by hospice regattas nationwide," according to Virginia Brown, founder of the national Alliance and co-founder of the Hospice Cup regatta in Annapolis. Other competitors due in town April 15-17: Bill Healy - Team Connecticut For more about the Championship, hospice regattas and Hospice care,
see http://www.hospiceregattas.org or email the Alliance at nhra@hospiceregattas.org
March 2005 - SpinSheet Magazine Article National Hospice Championship in Annapolis, April 15-17
The National Hospice Regatta Championship returns to Annapolis, April 15-17. The regatta includes winners of 19 hospice regattas from around the nation. The championship will be sailed in J/105s. The original Hospice Cup regatta began in Annapolis in 1982. Now in its 24th year, the regatta is still going strong, Hospice Cup has netted almost $5 million for local hospices in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC. Another $3 million has been raised by the many regattas that have grown up around the country. Banded together in 1999, all are members of the National Hospice Regatta Alliance which, since 2000. has organized an annual championship to recognize and promote their hospice regattas. Skippers are selected by local regatta criteria. This year's participating
skippers include: Greg Stewart (San Diego), Bill Healy (Connecticut/Long
Island Sound), Dan Myers (Fort Lauderdale), Steve Romaine (Naples,
FL), David Rockefeller, Jr. (Southwest Harbor, ME), Jack Biddle
(Annapolis), Jerry Daniel (Havre de Grace), Jonathan Wales (Marblehead,
MA), Kirk Reynolds (Watertown/Henderson Harbor, NY), Don Finkle
(Youngstown/Niagara, NY), Mike Ingham (Oswego, NY), Brook Richardson
(Rochester, NY), Chuck Lineberry (Charlotte/Lake Norman, NC), Chuck
Monsees (Bath, NC), Russell Krock (Sandusky, OH), Phil Lotz (Newport),
Doug Kessler (Anderson/Hartwell Lake, SC), Sanford Richardson (Hampton
Roads), and James Covington, Jr. (Yankee Point/Rappahannock River). West Marine, a National Sponsor on board again this year for both
the Championship and the local regattas, will help promote both
the Championship and the local regattas. Sailors, look for special
events and offers close to the date of your home hospice regatta.
February 2005 The Alliance welcomes back West Marine as a 2005
National Sponsor!! Join our 2005 National Sponsor, make a difference, support hospice, become a sponsor!
Indiana - Lake Michigan - January 2005 The Dunes Cup Hospice
Regatta will take place from the Michigan City Yacht
Club in Michigan City, Indiana becoming a provisional member of
the Alliance and the 21st regatta. The Dunes
Cup Hospice Regatta will the first Hospice Regatta in Indiana
and on Lake Michigan.
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Heavy traffic rounding the mark: Three boats round a mark during
the Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta, held Saturday on Lake Ontario
off Oswego Harbor. The boats pictured from left are Shock Wave (sail
#2535), Seaweed (#1938), and "Oz" (#1734). Sailors aboard
23 boats participated in the regatta. The overall winner was "Hiawatha,"
skippered by Auburn's Bob Porter of the Oswego Yacht Club. Sports
photo by Mike LeBoeuf
Skippers and crews celebrate the 2004 National Hospice Regatta Championship
last year 