18th Annual Santa Barbara Yacht Club Charity Regatta
OPEN WATER FOR CLEAR-SAILING!
Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) and VNA Health have both been serving the Santa Barbara community for 115 years! This year we celebrate the 18th Annual Charity Regatta on Saturday, September 10, 2022, once again benefiting VNA Health. Each year the Santa Barbara Yacht Club and VNA Health’s community friends come together to do two things at this important event: race, and support VNA Health’s mission of “caring for our community with compassion and integrity.”
If compassion and care were the only currency needed to sustain VNA Health’s services, we would provide them in abundance. However, as a nonprofit we rely on your support to continue delivering exceptional care for our families, friends, and neighbors, who depend on these services to live well at every stage of life.
Over the past 18 years, through the Charity Regatta, SBYC has raised over $2 million to benefit VNA Health. By supporting the 2022 Regatta you are making the gift of subsidized and charitable services and programs to our community.
For more information, please contact Lailan McGrath at lailan.mcgrath@vna.health or 805-690-6218.
2022 SPONSORSHIP LEVELS & BENEFITS
EXCLUSIVE FOR 2022 CHARITY REGATTA SPONSORS
Private Cocktail Party at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 from 5:30–7:00 PM
LEVELS | YOUR BENEFITS |
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ADMIRAL $20,000 |
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COMMODORE $10,000 |
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VICE COMMODORE $5,000 |
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REAR COMMODORE $2,500 |
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STAFF COMMODORE $1,000 |
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MEMORIAL BOAT $100 |
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DONATION |
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★ To be listed in the printed invitation, please confirm your package by MONDAY, JULY 18 ★
To be listed in other Charity Regatta promotions, please confirm your package by MONDAY, AUGUST 15.
For more information, contact Lailan McGrath at lailan.mcgrath@vna.health or at 805-690-6218.
2022 CELEBRITY SKIPPERS
We are proud to celebrate this year’s Celebrity Skippers – the Mental Health Workers of VNA Health – which include bereavement counselors, medical social workers, and chaplains. Across the agency this group of dedicated individuals comfort and inspire patients and their families every year throughout all stages of life. With their assistance, VNA Health provides charitable community programs and services, such as the Loan Closet, subsidized care at Serenity House, Community Palliative Care, Music Therapy, and Community Bereavement Care, while also providing comprehensive in-home healthcare including skilled nursing, rehabilitative therapies, and hospice care.
MEMORIAL BOAT
Watch our first Memorial Boat Ceremony from 2021.
On September 11, 2021, Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) offered a unique Remembrance Ceremony as a way for club members and local residents to honor a loved one that has passed, and also to pay tribute to those lost in 9/11.
Although the live event was cancelled, SBYC opened the Charity Regatta with a beautiful tribute from Commodore Andra Escola’s boat, Sul Mare. Music was provided by vocalist David Gonzales and trumpet player James Watson, while flowers were scattered into the open water in memory of loved ones by Taylor Escola.
Special thanks to Peter Trow for filming the ceremony and to Eric Peterson for photography. BIG THANKS to Brad Schaupeter for arranging the race and coordinating the VHF radio broadcast and Facebook Live to share with the crews on the boats and club members on the beach.
2021 Memorial Boat Tribute Names
Alan Ziegler
Barry Berkus
Bernadeen Yee
Bill Davis
Bob Alsworth
Bob Crum
Bob Kallman
Bradford Dillman
Chad Drier
Dorothy Blalock
Dorothy Sebastian
Ernie Brooks
Gail Berkus
Gary Wilcox
George Potter, Sr.
Harold Shapiro
Jane Crum
Jeffrey Thrash
Lad Handelman
Mark Noble
Nicholas Sebastian, Jr.
Peggy Mulligan
Peter Churchill
Richard Teraoka
Rosalie Harrington
Ruth Kallman
Shirley Oliphant
Tom Kelleway
Tom Mulligan
Tom Thoreson
Vera Mae Potter
Wayne Colahan
Winifred Cregar
Yolanda Ross
For more information, please contact Lailan McGrath at lailan.mcgrath@vna.health or 805-690-6218.
2022 CHARITY REGATTA COMMITTEE
Coming Soon
2022 CHARITY REGATTA RAFFLE
Coming Soon
For any other questions, please contact Lailan McGrath at Lailan.mcgrath@vna.health or 805-690-6218