21st Annual Santa Barbara Yacht Club Charity Regatta!

Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) is pleased to announce the 21st Annual Charity Regatta on Saturday, September 13, 2025, benefiting VNA Health. For over 20 years, SBYC and our community friends come together to do two things at this important event: to race, and to support VNA Health’s mission of “caring for our community with compassion and integrity.” For over two decades SBYC has held the Charity Regatta, successfully raising over $2.6 million to support VNA Health, and its invaluable healthcare services for our community.

We hope you will join us for a beautiful day at Santa Barbara Harbor and have fun while supporting the charitable community services and programs of VNA Health

We are grateful to our Charity Regatta Co-Chairs for 2026, Sarah Berkus Gower and Robyn Parker, and to the SBYC Commodore, Jeff Berkus.

We are excited to celebrate this year’s Celebrity Skippers – VNA Health’s Serenity House & Loan Closet Volunteers, who are generous with their time and care, and help to ensure that together we can help our community more than any one person or organization could accomplish alone.

VNA Health Foundation raises funds to sustain charitable community programs and services that enhance patient care such as the Loan Closet, Music Services, Pet Therapy, and Bereavement Care. Committed to ensuring access to care for all patients and their families, VNA Health Foundation also provides subsidized charity care throughout all clinical services, including in-patient hospice care at Serenity House. As a non-profit organization, VNA Health Foundation is solely dependent on support from the community, and this support increases the ability for patients to maintain dignity, comfort, and quality of life, whether rehabilitating from a injury or illness or living their final days at home, regardless of adequate insurance or resources.

VNA Health is Santa Barbara County’s leading, and only nonprofit, comprehensive provider of home health care, palliative care, and hospice care.

We are extremely grateful for your support and want to ensure you get maximum recognition for your generosity. Please indicate your donation by MONDAY, JULY 28 to be included in printed Charity Regatta promotions.

Your donation helps VNA Health to provide care to our community at any stage in life, regardless of inadequate insurance or resources

For any questions, please contact Lailan McGrath at 805-690-6218 or lailan.mcgrath@vna.health.

2025 SPONSORSHIP LEVELS & BENEFITS

EXCLUSIVE FOR 2024 CHARITY REGATTA SPONSORS
Private Cocktail Party at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 from 5:30–7:00 PM

LEVELS YOUR BENEFITS
FLEET ADMIRAL
$50,000
  • 12 tickets to the private Cocktail Party and to the Charity Regatta
  • 12 raffle tickets
  • 8 Memorial Boat Tributes
  • Lead Sponsor recognition: name and/or logo featured on promotion materials, including the banner publicly displayed at the SBYC
  • Spectator cruise on a private yacht during the race
ADMIRAL
$20,000
  • 10 tickets to the private Cocktail Party and to the Charity Regatta
  • 10 raffle tickets
  • 6 Memorial Boat Tributes
  • Lead Sponsor recognition: name and/or logo featured on promotion materials, including the banner publicly displayed at the SBYC
  • Spectator cruise on a private yacht during the race
COMMODORE
$10,000
  • 8 tickets to the private Cocktail Party and to the Charity Regatta
  • 8 raffle tickets
  • 4 Memorial Boat Tributes
  • Sponsor recognition: name and/or logo featured on promotion materials, including the banner publicly displayed at the SBYC
  • Spectator cruise on a private yacht during the race
VICE COMMODORE
$5,000
  • 6 tickets to the private Cocktail Party and to the Charity Regatta
  • 6 raffle tickets
  • 3 Memorial Boat Tributes
  • Sponsor recognition: name and/or logo featured on promotion materials, including the banner publicly displayed at the SBYC
  • Spectator cruise on a private yacht during the race
REAR COMMODORE
$2,500
  • 4 tickets to the private Cocktail Party and to the Charity Regatta
  • 4 raffle tickets
  • 2 Memorial Boat Tributes
  • Name featured on promotion materials
STAFF COMMODORE
$1,000
  • 2 tickets to the private Cocktail Party and to the Charity Regatta and 2 Raffle tickets
  • 1 Memorial Boat Tributes
  • Name featured on promotion materials
MEMORIAL BOAT
$100
  • Remember a loved one. Names will be posted at SBYC and on VNA Health website. In their honor, flowers will be scattered into the ocean at the start of the
DONATION
  • Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated

2025 CHARITY REGATTA COMMITTEE

L-R: Co-Chairs Sarah Berkus Gower and Robyn Parker
L-R: Co-Chairs Sarah Berkus Gower and Robyn Parker

Jeff Berkus, SBYC COMMODORE
Sarah Berkus Gower, SBYC CHARITY REGATTA CO-CHAIR
Robyn Parker, SBYC CHARITY REGATTA CO-CHAIR

Joan Brair
Trish Davis
Kim Ferrarin
Jodi Fishman-Osti
Christie Glanville
Marilyn Goodfield
Shari Guilfoyle
Bethany Harkrider
Carol Kallman
Teresa Koontz
Francie Lufkin
Maggie Mabuchi
Lailan McGrath
Easter Moorman
Marisa Parker
Caitlyn Pertsulakes
Kelly Ransdell
Tracy Schifferns
Nick Sebastian
Beverly Toole
Shannon Vernon
Gail Young

2025 CELEBRITY SKIPPERS

VNA Health Serenity House & Loan Closet Volunteers

Jo Bardsley
Sharon Bradford
Timothy Brind’Amour
Sophia Campuzano
Shannon Coburn
Nahsia Darcus
Joanne Deck
Roger Deck
Thomas Felkay
Anna Fraser
Krista Frohling
Phil Hons
John Kammeyer
Layla Khashoggi
Michael Manasse
Joyce McCullough
Lanette Perry
Daniel Polk
Riya Ravuri
Don Reif
Margarita Sanchez
Mandee Sikich
Ginger Sledge
David Sparer
Aaron Stein
Arlene Stepputat
Alison Strelich
Tim Townsend
Giselle Vasquez-Razo

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS 2025 SPONSORS

ADMIRAL

Ann & Ed Brady

CenCal Health

COMMODORE

Sheila & Tom Cullen

Hutton Parker Foundation

Marisa & Chris Parker
Robyn & Jess Parker
Susan Parker

Talia & Jay Roston

VICE COMMODORE

Brophy Brothers
Impulse

Harry & Wendy Atterbury, The Whimsie Fund
Mary & Richard Compton
Diana Katsenes
Loretta Redd
Lorraine & Keith Reichel

REAR COMMODORE

American Riviera Bank
Amgen

Becky & Jeff Berkus
Shari & Bill Guilfoyle
Perry Gibson & Ken Kraus
Antoinette Chartier & Brian Nash
Helen & Ben Phillips
Belinda Salazar
Coriander Stasi & Kieran Shah
Gail & Bob Young

STAFF COMMODORE

Brown & Brown
The Chandlery
Village Properties

Vince Caballero, Village Properties
Christie Glanville
Jane & Norm Habermann
Bethany & Jay Harkrider
Christine & Michael Holland
Debbie & Brian Johnson
Sarah & Fred Kass
Krista & Kenneth Kieding
Francie & Peter Lufkin
Brenda Blalock & Alan Porter
Santa Barbara Doctors
Linda Seals
Drs. Susan & Arvind Shah
The Shevitz Family
Sharol & Wayne Siemens
Drs. Rachel & Eric Trautwein
George Writer
Gina & Alex Ziegler

SBYC CAPTAIN
Carol Kallman & Don Barthelmess
Suzanne & Daniel Durbeck
Sarah & Hayden Gower
Patti & Don Houchin
Sheri Eckmann & Billy Klansek
Teresa & John Koontz
Judith Muller
Jeanene & Kent Pierce
Leslie & Dennis Power
Tracy & Ed Schifferns
Karen & Al Wintringham

SBYC ENSIGN
Anne-Marie Castleberg
Jerry Shalhoob

HOSPITALITY

Fess Parker Winery & Vineyard
Ridson's 76 Service
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
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