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Heaven Can Wait 2022 is just 4 months away

by Melvyn Steiner 6 Oct 2021 00:42 PDT 5-6 February 2022
Heaven Can Wait 2022 © Melvyn Steiner

Yes, I know, we are still in lockdown, but, it is - hopefully, coming to an end soon, so spare a thought for this fabulous charity fund raising regatta - the 16th Heaven Can Wait Charity Sailing Regatta to be run over the weekend of February 5 and 6.

The Charity Dinner will be held on the preceding Friday - February 4th, at the Royal Motor Yacht Club Toronto. Now is the time to be thinking about getting your crews organised and setting yourself up to participate in the regatta, and more particularly, the 24 Hour Endurance race. Yes, you can take the less challenging events - the One Lap Dash and the 12 Hour race, but there is nothing like having done the 24 Hours and being able to say 'I did It'.

In case you did not know, the Heaven Can Wait Charity Regatta was conceived and inaugurated by Lake Macquarie resident, keen sailor and cancer survivor Shaun Lewicki as a major annual sailing event on the lake, to promote sailing, the Lake Macquarie / Newcastle / Hunter region - and originally, to raise funds for cancer research - particularly men's cancers. As the survival rates from cancer have improved, so have the needs of the Hunter Branch of Cancer Council NSW, and the funds we raise from this regatta are now directed to a new program - a Home Help Program. This program provides domestic assistance to both recovering and terminal cancer patients who - because of their illness, are unable to perform many of the home duties they would normally do.

In the 15 years that this event has been run, it has raised some $470,000 in support of the charities and we fully expect to be well over the $500,000 after the 2022 event. We would like to think, that you will be there to help us.

The Heaven Can Wait Charity Sailing Regatta will again be part of Lakefest - a celebration of aquatic activity on Lake Macquarie which - in 2022, will include the Lake Macquarie Regatta, the Australia Day Regatta, the SheSkippers race, the Classic Boatfest and the Charity Ball.

So, why not start working the crew for this fabulous charity fund raising event. Entries will open later this year for the Heaven Can Wait Regatta and other Lakefest events. Why not plan to stay a while and participate in some of the other Lakefest events.

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