Hi everyone,

Along with a few other sailors from our club at Lake Manawa in Iowa, I'm going to be participating in the JBT Regatta on July 17 at
Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.  It's a fundraiser for pediatric brain cancer research and our team will be sailing in memory of my daughter Maddie.  My wife and I started the Nebraska Chapter of The Cure Starts Now and it so happens that the New Hampshire Chapter of The Cure Starts Now was also started by a guy named Jesse who is a sailor.  He started it in memory of his son John.  We'll be borrowing his J80 for the race and he is borrowing a boat from a friend so we can all participate.

I started sailing in 2018, several years after Maddie passed away in 2015 when she was 8 years old.  Sailing has been a very helpful outlet for me and I'm grateful that I found it when I did.

Anyway, I have a couple of free days in New Hampshire (and a rental car available) following the regatta, so if there happen to be any Rhodies in the area, it would be great to meet up.

If you happen to be interested in participating in the regatta, here is a link to the Notice of Race:
https://events.thecurestartsnow.org/media/4031/notice-of-race-6th-annual-jbt-regatta.pdf

Our team page is at the following link in case anyone wants to contribute. There are absolutely no expectations here, but I would be remiss if I didn't at least post the link.
https://p2p.thecurestartsnow.org/402

Thanks,
Jesse Shumaker
S/V Zephyr