Help kids set sail
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My husband, Robert Suhay, set a world distance sailing record last week in his 14-foot-long Laser in the Atlantic Ocean, from Morehead City, N.C., to Annapolis, Md. on a boat loaned to him by the kind folks at Shoreline Sailboats of Avon, NY.
Robert broke the Guinness World Record for the longest distance solo sailed unassisted in a dinghy, which he set last year, by a whole lot more than a mile. The existing record stood at 283.5 nautical miles, and the GPS tracker aboard his boat recorded his total distance traveled unassisted as 346.1 nautical miles.
The record count began at 6 a.m. Tuesday, June 30, 2015 when Robert launched from the Sail Carteret Club in Morehead City, N.C. It ended at 12:08 a.m. Saturday, July Fourth, 2015 at the Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, Md.
The boat was on loan from Shoreline Sailboats of Avon, NY. Robert wants to buy the boat and then auction it to raise funds to take homeless children from the ForKids and other local children living below the poverty line sailing via the summer camp programs run by ODU Sailing Center and United Way of Hampton Roads.
This way Shoreline isn't out money and the kids get their, currently unaffordable, dream of sailing lessons.
In two weeks he has to return the boat. The cost is $5,000.
NOTE: Any amount raise over and above that amount will be added to money raised during the auction.
Robert broke the Guinness World Record for the longest distance solo sailed unassisted in a dinghy, which he set last year, by a whole lot more than a mile. The existing record stood at 283.5 nautical miles, and the GPS tracker aboard his boat recorded his total distance traveled unassisted as 346.1 nautical miles.
The record count began at 6 a.m. Tuesday, June 30, 2015 when Robert launched from the Sail Carteret Club in Morehead City, N.C. It ended at 12:08 a.m. Saturday, July Fourth, 2015 at the Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, Md.
The boat was on loan from Shoreline Sailboats of Avon, NY. Robert wants to buy the boat and then auction it to raise funds to take homeless children from the ForKids and other local children living below the poverty line sailing via the summer camp programs run by ODU Sailing Center and United Way of Hampton Roads.
This way Shoreline isn't out money and the kids get their, currently unaffordable, dream of sailing lessons.
In two weeks he has to return the boat. The cost is $5,000.
NOTE: Any amount raise over and above that amount will be added to money raised during the auction.
Organizer
Lisa Suhay
Organizer
Norfolk, VA
