Sailing for Hope
We are proud to announce that
St. Jude supporters in the Kentucky Lake
and surrounding area will join together again on
June 8, 2013 to raise money and awareness for the
children of St. Jude. The Sailing Hope for Hope Regatta will be held
on Kentucky Lake at Lighthouse Landing Marina in Grand Rivers, Kentucky.
Regatta sign-in and social will be held Friday night (6/7/13), with the
awards dinner on Saturday night (6/8/13) after the race. Each and every
pledge of sponsorship for every sailor offers
what St. Jude patients need the most – hope. Join us!
How can you get involved? Sailors can enter their boat to race in the
regatta and encourage their family and friends to pledge support for their
boat and crew. Everyone is encouraged to go online and sponsor a captain or
team for the regatta. This year you can also create your own virtual team
and ask others to support you in the Sailing for Hope fundraising effort.
You can customize your own fundraising page, watch your progress, post to
social media and help the kids at St. Jude with your team. If you want to
help out please click the button below to go to the St. Jude website and
sign up today!
The third annual St Jude Children’s Research Hospital Sailing for Hope Regatta will take place June 7 & 8, 2013, hosted by Kentucky Lake Sailing Club at Lighthouse Landing Resort & Marina in Grand Rivers, KY on beautiful Kentucky Lake. All proceeds benefit St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We have raised, thus far, over $26,000 for the children of St Jude!
- Sailing for Hope is a PHRF distance race of approximately 30 nautical miles
- Classes will be - Spinnaker, JAM A, JAM B, Cruising Class
- New this year, cruising classes for beginner racers, who just want to get out there, round the buoys and see what a regatta is all about.
- Trophies awarded in all classes
- Please contact us for crewing opportunities contact: elizabeth.owens@stjude.org
- Pre-race Friday night beach party beginning at 6 PM.
- Saturday night awards banquet and silent auction
- Details and schedule on http://klsc.net
June 7 2013 On-site registration (LHL Meeting Room)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
June 7 2013 Cookout on LHL Beach
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM
June 8 2013 Late registration (LHL Deck)
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
June 8 2013 Skippers’ meeting (LHL
Deck)
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
June 8 2013 SFH Regatta – Distance
Race
10:00 AM Start
June 8 2013 Dinner, Awards,
Auction, Social
6:00 PM – 11:30 PM (GR Community Center)
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Ashley is this year’s Sailing
for Hope’s honorary Commodore.
A Message from Anna - Ashley’s Mom:
“Ashley 14 was diagnosed with
severe Aplastic Anemia in March of 2012 which rocked the world of her family.
Her 13 year old brother was a perfect match to be a bone marrow donor which was
her cure and the transplant took place under the amazing care of St. Jude. The
most trying time in our family’s life was rough waters for sure!
But St. Jude hospital saved her life and after 13 surgeries in 2 months during a
bone marrow transplant and chemo, and then contracting Steven Johnsons Disease
right before being able to go home - Ashley painted this picture: I refuse to
sink!
And now she is sailing through the last few months of Immune Suppression Therapy
before her one year BMT anniversary and return to normal life.”
Note: Ashley’s painting “I Refuse to Sink” will be on all 2013 Sailing for Hope T-Shirts
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Special
thanks to our returning sponsors:
Kentucky Lake Sailing Club, Lighthouse Landing Resort and Marina, Interlux,
Sedona Staffing, Rosenblum & Reisman, Birdsong Resort & Marina, Grand Rivers
Community Center, West Marine, North Sails, BoatUS, Regatta Ginger Beer, William
Grant & Sons, SAILFAST, New England Ropes & Sperry Top-Sider
Special
thanks to our new sponsors:
1st KY Bank, Neil’s Catering, Memphis Sports Pub, Daniel Forster
Photography, Leighton O’Connor Sports & Travel Photography, Outside Images
Nautical Photography, Originals by Pierce & Company, Bros Boards, Speed &
Smarts, Volvo Ocean Racing & Central Plasticworks
And, as always, thank you for your love and support for the children of St. Jude.
FUNDRAISING
Ahoy Kentucky Lake sailors! Sailing season is almost upon us. But before you get ready to hoist your sails I’m asking you to help with a very special project. Sailing for Hope is Kentucky Lake Sailing Club’s annual event to raise money for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
In 2012 we gave all sailors, not just the skippers and their crews, the opportunity to support this worthy cause by signing up on the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital event web site http://tinyurl.com/sailingforhope2012 and setting up their fund raising team. It costs nothing to sign up just a little bit of of time and a willingness to send out a few emails to friends and family urging them to support this worthy cause. We will be making this opportunity available again for the 2013 Regatta, please check back often for details.
You can customize your personal web page with your own photos and track your fund raising progress on line. Form a team with your crew, your pier mates, your family or anyone who wants to get on board. The first place team will be recognized as St Jude Sailors of the year during the post race dinner.
Regatta sign up will begin soon on the Kentucky Lake Sailing Club site and we hope you will sail with us on June 8, 2013, however, racers and non racers will be able to set up their own fund raising site in the very near future. Please come back and check for updates.
2012 is St Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s 50 year anniversary and we need your help now more than ever. Please help us continue our work because “no child should die in the dawn of life” Danny Thomas
Thank You,
Elizabeth Owens
Kentucky Lake Sailing Club
Pathology
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Elizabeth.owens@stjude.org
May 19, 2012 was last year's Sailing for Hope Regatta and together we raised over $ 13,000.00 for St. Jude, bringing our two year total to over $ 25,000.00. Thanks to everyone for your hard work and commitment!
About St. Jude
Built on a Promise
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, is one of the world’s premier centers for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic diseases. St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. Children from all 50 states and from around the world have come through the doors of St. Jude for research and treatment, and thousands more around the world have benefited from the research conducted at St. Jude – research that is shared freely with the global community. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance. No child is denied treatment because of a family’s inability to pay.
Working together under one roof, their physicians and scientists have pioneered treatments that have helped push the overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 70 percent today. The survival rate for the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has risen from just 4 percent in 1962 to 94 percent today.
Their Unique Mission
Local
hospitals are vital to the health of children in every community. But St. Jude
has a unique mission – to generate the knowledge that will save the lives of
hundreds of thousands of children stricken with cancer and other catastrophic
diseases worldwide.
They remain committed to their founder Danny Thomas’ dream that “no child should
die in the dawn of life.” We urge you to help them by becoming a part of their
great mission to find cures and save children.
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At St.
Jude, no child is ever turned away because of a family’s inability to pay.
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St.
Jude has the only National Cancer Institute-funded cancer center devoted solely
to pediatric cancer.
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St.
Jude discovered a way to lessen side effects, making radiation treatment
effective for virtually all cancers.
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Scientific discoveries made at St. Jude lead to life-saving cures and treatments
shared with and made available to communities around the world.
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The
daily operating cost of St. Jude is $1.5 million, which is primarily covered
through public contributions.
About KLSC
Kentucky Lake Sailing Club
The
Kentucky Lake Sailing Club (KLSC) The KLSC is an organization of sailors in
the KY Lakes area. We are not a yacht club, rather a group of sailors with a
rich history dating back to the first Kentucky state registration for the
club on Feb 2, 1955.
For a history of KLSC visit our website at: www.klsc.net
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