Heaven can wait!! There is a summer smorgasbord of sailing
by Rob Kothe and the Sail-World Team on 9 Jan 2015
Nathan Outteridge - 2015 Moth World Championships, Sorrento, Melbourne. In Nath's first Heaven Can Wait One Lap Dash he crashed his Moth eleven times but set a course record. Thierry Martinez
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We have a smorgasbord of World Championships and National titles in Australia at the moment, you'd have to think this might be the busiest sailing summer ever here in Oz.
Can anyone who thinks differently please detail a bigger December-January. Looking back into this website history which goes back 17 years, we think not.
If you can recall a bigger year, please remind us.
Not going to do a roll call of results and progress scores and previews, it’s all in the stories below, instead we want to talk about our absolute favourite Australian sailing event.
No not Hammo, or Airlie, or the Sydney Hobart but the Heaven Can Wait Charity Sailing Regatta – the biggest mixed fleet regatta on Lake Macquarie, (Sail-World Australia’s home pond,) and the only 24 hour overnight round the cans race in Australia, gets underway in six weeks.
This event was conceived by Shaun Lewicki and the carried on by Mark Cherrington, Mark Hasting, Blake Middleton from the USA with some help from the Sail-world team before Royal Motor Yacht Club Toronto stepped up the plate magnificently with a strong team of volunteers now lead by Mal Steiner taking on stewardship of th event.
The unique thing - instead of it costing a fortune, this great event provides serious money for charity.
I am not sure of the exact figure but by next year it will be approaching a quarter of a million dollars for cancer research and now for support for patients , now that might be a drop in the bucket in medical research terms but name another sailing event that has done that.
This year’s regatta will commence on Saturday February 21 2015 with the One Lap Dash and 24 Hour Race finishing on Sunday February 22, and of course, don’t forget the pre-race fund raising dinner on Friday February 20 at the RMYC Toronto.
Mal Steiner said this week. ‘Get your entries for the regatta in now and start raising funds through Everydayhero, for this very worthwhile charity – the Hunter Branch of NSW Cancer Council
‘Our fund raising target is $50,000 (last year we raised $39,000) and don’t forget, there is a trophy for the boat that raises the most money in support of the charity.
Regatta entries are now open – simply visit the www.rmyctoronto.com.au/Sailing/Heaven-Can-Wait/HCW-Race-Entry
Now grab a plate and a spoon and tuck into the smorgasbord below.
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