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2002 NHRA News Archive 2003 Championship Announcement - October
31, 2002 The National Regatta Alliance announces:
The Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta was a whopping success with 102 boats entered this year, an increase of 23 boats from last year and a new record.
September 21, 2002 - Hampton Roads Hospice Regatta John Hanna and the Battlewagon crew will be headed
to the 2003 National Championship Hospice Regatta to represent Greater
Hampton Roads early next Spring. Tentative Battlewagon earned the right to go to the National
event by the skin of her teeth. The overall winner is determined
by figuring the fleet winner that covered the course in the quickest
time based on corrected time. Event Chairman Glenn Giles and Race
Committee Chairman Dicky Please visit Hampton Roads Regatta Website: http://hospiceregatta.freeservers.com for race results
September 15-22, 2002 - 13th Annual Hospice of SE Connecticut Regatta NIANTIC: Over 64 Boats joined to raise funds this past weekend in support of Hospice of Southeastern Connecticut at the 13th Annual Hospice Regatta. Over $30,000 is expected to be raised. This past year, Hospice of Southeastern Connecticut has served close to 400 patients and their families. "We continue to be a respected member of the health care community with an unyielding commitment to delivering quality end-of-life care to the residents of Southeastern Connecticut. The support we receive from the sailing community in our efforts to raise funds and increase awareness of hospice care is incredible", stated Pat Morgan, director of development. Third Place PHRF winner, Peter Spano shared that he sailed in memory of his son who was fortunate to have hospice care ten years ago at the end of his life. " This is all about Hospice. I prayed for a third place finish and I got it. I wanted to do this for my son". Event Chair, Nancy Healy praised the efforts of all of the volunteers,
sailors and sponsors. This year's Regatta committee included: Nancy
Healy, Admiral Dan Danielson (RET),Matt Dowd, Bob Geary, Peter Guille,
Lee Highmore, Gerry Keeler, David Kelly, John Lanza and Dick Roberts. Still "America's Largest Charity Regatta"
-- 122 boats racing, hundreds of spectators and guests enjoying
the day, and over $300,000 going to hospice care in Maryland, Virginia
and Washington, D.C. There were twelve classes of racing boats --
handicap and Cruising One Design, plus the special Hospice Class
for sailors who do not usually race but want to show support for
hospice care. Over 600 sponsors and their guests on three spectator
boats were treated to a day on the Bay watching the huge fleet,
and a grand Shore Party with the sailors to wrap up the day. Congratulations to David Sliom, who raced his boat Dancing Bear more consistently well in the Hospice Cup races of 1999, 2000 and 2002 than any other skipper. The trophy will be awarded in a special ceremony, and David will be invited to compete in the 2003 National Hospice Regatta Championship against winners from the 16 other hospice regattas that took place this year nationwide. HOSPICE CUP XXI PROVISIONAL RESULTS BY CLASS
July 12-13, 2002
- Stein Hospice Cup
2002 The first annual Community Celebration at Battery Park kicked off
the festivities in style. Outback steakhouse donated over 300 meals
of chicken, steak, and all the trimmings. That FunknBluez Band kept
the audience moving throughout the evening. The three amigos (picture
included) Louie Palmer, Bubba Herzog and Billy Semans, kept the
drinks flowing and the crowd happy. Even Mother Nature showed her
support with a break in the oppressive heat. Saturday brought the regatta events. Starting with the Caregiver Class in a poker run, followed by the skippers meeting and the departure of the boats for the lake course. Again the weather was a gift. An eerie (or is that Erie) calm in the morning turned to a nice breeze out of the East. The racers on the lake course ended up sailing in a steady 12-knot breeze. Nineteen boats registered for the races; eighteen sailed in the two races; four on the poker run and the remaining fourteen were on the lake course.
July 2002 - BoatU.S. Magazine - Sailors make Hospice Cup Happen It's been two decades since Virginia Brown was standing at her kitchen sink, lost in thought, trying to come up with an idea for a new charity fundraiser. The McLean, VA, resident had devoted years to helping organize high-end black-tie galas, dinners, and awards ceremonies. Now she had a new cause - promoting hospice care in the U.S., a relatively new idea back in 1980 - and wracked her brain for a way to raise money to set up a local hospice program.
A chance phone call from another charity organizer that day led to an idea that would eventually become one of the most successful and prestigious charity regattas in the U.S., the Hospice Cup. "I was trying to think of something out-of-doors, perhaps
on the water," she recalled, "and neither one of us sailed.
We wondered what would be appropriate since we had heard about rowdy
sailors." The first Hospice Cup was held in Annapolis in 1982 with 35 entries right from the start and raised $30,000. It raised over $400,000 the last time it was held. Today there are 17 similar events held throughout the U.S. every year, sponsored by local yacht clubs, drawing hundreds of entries. Among all the regattas (see list below) over $1 million is raised each year. Two more regattas have just been announced in Bradenton, FL, and Charleston, SC. One of the major reasons for the success of the Hospice Cup is the strong support for the concept of hospice care - especially among those who are personally familiar with it. The major benefit of hospice care is allowing a terminally ill patient to either remain at home or at a home-like hospice facility with the best quality of life possible, rather than in a hospital. Brown's husband died of cancer in 1979 and during his illness she had worked closely with local nurses to set up his care at home. The need for this kind of service was obvious to Brown but very little was available in the U.S. even though the hospice concept had taken hold in Europe. It is a largely volunteer program in which families of patients
get assistance and respite from the enormous challenges that catastrophic
illnesses bring. Volunteers are not only well trained but exceptionally
compassionate and a great comfort to family and friends during such
difficult times. The service is available to anyone without regard
to their ability to pay for it and the donations from charity events
such as the regattas cover the costs of care not covered by insurance
or other means. The Hospice Cup is sponsored by the Shearwater Sailing Club of Annapolis and is a "must" event on every sailor's racing calendar. At many of the local races, nurses and care-givers are taken out on spectator boats to enjoy a day on the water and be part of the fun. Unfortunately, last September's event was canceled, along with several other hospice regattas due to the attacks on New York and Washington. The event had as honorary chairman Dr. Craig Venter, head of Celera Genomics which last year sequenced the human genome, making worldwide headlines. Venter is an avid sailor with a 95-foot sloop Gene Maverick. Going National Even with the huge success of the Annapolis event, Virginia Brown was not ready to stop there. She was already hatching plans to take the regattas to the next level: With so many separate regattas all over the map, how could the event, and the need to support hospice services, get some national recognition? Thus was born a championship, the National Hospice Cup Regatta, in which winners from each of the local events competes for a national prize. Now in its third year, the national cup under the auspices of the National Hospice Regatta Alliance (Web site: www.hospiceregattas.org) has flourished in participation and stature. Like so many sailboat races, the competition is not so much for prize money (there is none) but bragging rights and ultimately to continue support of a good cause. On April 12-14, some 17 teams from local hospice regattas from the Great Lakes to California came to Annapolis to compete in two days of fierce racing. BoatU.S. has been a sponsor of both this and the Annapolis regatta for the past several years.
And despite the blustery spring weather on the Chesapeake Bay, Brown was aboard the spectator boat to see the action up close. (She is currently a powerboat owner and has motored all over the Bay by herself.) In talking about her cause, she sees a unique parallel between sailing and the hospice program. "With sailing, you don't know what's going to happen from one moment to the next but your crew has trusted you to be there for them," she said. "With hospice patients, the same is true and the teams that care for them form the same sort of bond as sailboat crews. You have to trust each other and prepare for the worst, but hope for the best." The 2002 National Championship was won by Team Hartwell Lake from South Carolina; second place went to San Francisco, CA, and third was won by Hampton Roads, VA. Competing in identical J-105s loaned from local owners, they raced a fairly short .8-mile windward-leeward course that kept the fleet closely bunched with lots of tight maneuvering at mark roundings and finish lines. From Wickford, RI, to support their Rhode Island team at the championship were BoatU.S. members Barbara and Bruce Dawson. They volunteer to help run the Hospice Cup of Rhode Island out of Newport which now draws about 90 boats and raises as much as $80,000 for their area hospice. "No one was running a charity regatta, " said Barbara looking back nine years. "With all the sailing on Narragansett Bay you had this great resource and no one was using it. We sort of jumped on it and now it's our biggest event. "For sailors it's a really good cause and we're working on getting powerboaters involved with poker runs or predicted log events," she said. The Rhode Island regatta also gets avid support from TowBoatU.S. The event really came full circle for the team from Lockport, NY. They came to the championship on a special mission - to sail in the memory of one of their fellow racers, Jack Beatty, who had been a Niagara Frontier Hospice patient himself before he died last fall. While in Annapolis, his teammates recalled how determined he was to race in their regatta on Lake Ontario, despite his illness. Just to make sure he did not miss the start, they said he spent the night before the race on board his boat, a fitting effort since the hospice program had been there for him when he needed it. For more information on hospice care, see www.nhpco.org; and on the regattas, see www.hospiceregattas.org. - By Elaine Dickinson © Copyright BoatU.S. Magazine 2002
June 19, 2002 - U.S. TEAM SET FOR 2002
ISAF WORLD SAILING GAMES
June 8, 2002 - Oswego County Hospice Cup Regatta The Oswego County Bar Association donated a perpetual club trophy
for the overall winner. Kirk Reynolds and crew aboard Sea Dog was
this year's overall winner. Kirk will once again represent the Oswego
Hospice and OYC in the national competition of the NHRA in 2003.
He also competed in the first National Hospice Regatta in Annapolis
in 2000. As the best Oswego boat competing in the race, Kirk Reynolds also won the Commodore's Cup. Terry & Martha Hammill received the Sportsmanship Award for
their unique contribution to the regatta. They graciously hosted
sponsor representatives on their boat, Corso Avanti, which served
as our Spectator Boat. They provided an interesting and up close
look at the racers and their boats as they rounded bouys and crossed
the finish lines
May 17-18, 2002 - Hospice Regatta 2002 Fort Lauderdale Florida Hospice Regatta 2002 a weekend of family fun, sailing and food in beautiful Fort Lauderdale.
Results Hospice Regatta 2002 Results
April 20-22, 2002 - Lake
Norman Hospice Regatta
One race because there was no wind!!!! 2002 Lake Norman Hospice Regatta Results 2002 Lake Norman Hospice Entries
Monday, April 15 - South Carolina Team Wins the
2002 National Hospice Fancy bow work by Team San Francisco in 2002 National Hospice Championship. Photo by Balfour Photography
After two days of close racing among 17 teams representing the
2001 The series was already close at the end of the first day, with
at least Of course, they all started as winners from their local hospice
Friday, April 12 - The 2002 National Hospice Championship is underway! The 2002
National Hospice Championship
is underway! Today, 17 teams met each other and practiced
on the J/105 boats borrowed from the generous owners of the Annapolis,
Maryland Sailboat racing's team approach and lively atmosphere have parallels
to hospice care. Hospice care serves patients with terminal illness,
and their family and loved ones who are with them at this difficult
time. A team approach to medical and support services to all concerned,
at home The sailors get really serious on Saturday with the first several
races of the two-day championship series. But they are all champions
already, having reached the top of their local regattas' competition.
Annapolis, MD -- April 12-14, 2002 will see top racing sailors from around the country compete in the third annual National Hospice Regatta Championship. Winning skippers and crews from the 17 hospice regattas, which were sailed in 2001, will compete for the national honors. The race will be held on the Chesapeake Bay, with Race Headquarters located at the J/Port Marina in Annapolis, Maryland. The championship host is the National Hospice Regatta Alliance, which was created by the independent regional regattas. The Alliance's volunteers assist new and existing regattas with start-up and event ideas as well as promote both the regattas and hospice care nationally. The first championship was held in 1999 and had 12 participating regattas. Since that time, six new regattas have been established and others are in the planning stages. In addition to the race, there will be on-shore social events for the participants. A reception will follow the Saturday racing, and an awards ceremony will follow the final race on Sunday. Together, the hospice regattas raise over $1 million a year for hospices in their communities. In addition to raising money, these events also raise awareness for hospice care in a way that steps out of the traditional fund raising mode. Money is raised through sponsorships, ad sales and donations. Over 20 years ago, the first hospice regatta was started in Annapolis,
Maryland to not only to raise money but to raise awareness as well.
As the pioneering regatta, Hospice Cup, flourished, many other organizations
around the country contacted them to learn how to replicate the
event in their area. Now, continuing to multiply, in 2002 there
will be 18 hospice regattas. Hospice care is unique in helping terminally ill patients and their families and friends with a wide range of medical and non-medical services, without regard to ability to pay, at home or in a home-like setting. For patients, this means palliative care such as symptom control and pain management. For all, it means psychological and spiritual services specific to each situation, as well as assistance with day-to-day living. And, for grieving family and loved ones, hospice is the only professional program that offers bereavement services such as counseling and children's camps.
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