Fancy having a lot of fun on the water, and raising funds for a fantastic local
charity at the same time?
It is not very often you get a chance to combine so many good things in one go... Sailing, Racing, banter and beer, and as a bonus, raising some money for Dreams Come True, a local and very worthwhile charity.
Dreams Come True.
Dreams Come True Charity exists to lift the spirits of terminally and seriously ill children by fulfilling their most treasured dream. The charity helps children with both life threatening and long term degenerative illnesses, including leukemia, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. The only limit to a dream is a child’s imagination and popular requests include experiencing the magic of Disney World and swimming with dolphins. Since the charity was founded in 1988, we have fulfilled dreams for over 3,000 children. With your support, in our 20th year, we can pass our target of making a dream a day come true.
For more information on Dreams Come True Charity please visit our website at www.dctc.org.uk
The Event
The idea is very simple, each pub will submit a team of up to 8 crew members including an appropriately experienced skipper, to race a 37' yacht against the teams from other pubs in the area, sailing identical yachts, around the Solent for the weekend. We are expecting a minimum of 12 pub teams and quite possibly twice that!
There is to be a splendid Gala dinner on the Saturday night in Cowes and a Prize Giving ceremony on Sunday 5th October for the race winners, teams and their sponsors who have raised the most money for the charity.
Press and the public are invited to attend and support the event, culminating in a presentation by Dreams Come True. Spirit Sailing will also be offering ‘Dreams’ in the form of fun rides on the water for children from the charity wishing on Spirit Sailing’s own Rib.
The emphasis is not quite the same as the usual regatta. Whilst the racing is central to the weekend, and the competition will be fierce, the extraneous elements tend to take on just as much significance. The shoreside activities always take on a life of their own with various unexpected side-line competitions developing as well as those that are planned! In short, this will be a huge fun event, as well as providing some excellent competition on the water, and at the same time raising some money for Dreams Come True.
Itinerary
The event will take place over the first weekend in October.Each team will be allocated an identical 37’ Jeanneau Sunfast - spinnakers included!
To download the events complete Itinerary please click the download form icon and follow the instructions.
About Spirit Sailing
The event is being organised by Spirit Sailing, a local sailing company based in Fernhurst, with many years of experience in organising regattas of this sort.
Spirit Sailing is owned and run by the principal, Steve Le Butt, a qualified Yachtmaster examiner with over 18 years experience. Steve has successfully run numerous events, training courses, and sailing days (including charity events), for small groups to large corporate businesses, (such as Goldman Sachs and Barclays Bank).
How do we take part?
The fee to participate is a very reasonable £300 per head for the whole weekend. In addition to this each team will be expected to raise a minimum of £800 (£100 per crew member), which will go to the charity. The entry fee of £2,400 per boat – see cost breakdown below - covers the cost of the yacht, berthing fees, basic victuals for breakfasts, lunches and soft drinks aboard, as well as the Gala venue and dinner (includes 4 bottles of wine per table/team), Race Control Officers and craft – including the committee boat and an 8m rib as a support boat and prizes. It includes basically everything for the whole weekend apart from your beer! !
Prizes – a framed crew photograph to keep and engraved trophy to be displayed in the winner’s pub for the year! Whilst other benefits for participating pubs and corporate sponsors include any publicity and coverage from attending press and affiliation to the charity.
If you would like to enter a team to represent your pub in this fantastic fun event, then download and complete the registration Booking Form, and return to Spirit Sailing, (contact details below).
A deposit of £500 will be required to register your entry and secure your pub team yacht by 20th July 2008 at the latest.
Sponsorship
There is to be an expected minimum of £800 raised per team (£100 per crew member), for the charity Dreams come True, (with of course no maximum limit for this worthy cause!) Each pub team are free to raise funds and support via their own means, be it through:
1) Sponsorship by Individuals donating funds (i.e. friends, family, fellow pub goers),
or,
2) Corporate Sponsorship (1 or more local or non local companies)
Sponsorship Benefits
In the case of corporate sponsorship, (or pub sponsorship), any major sponsor will have:
* Your company affiliated to the charity Dreams Come True
* Your company logo and chosen pub team name displayed on the team yacht
* Any press and publicity coverage through affiliation with the charity and cause at the event itself
* The event is an ideal opportunity for organisations to build a relationship with a charity such as Dreams Come True as part of their Corporate Social responsibility scheme and help provide wonderful, meaningful experiences for seriously and terminally ill children. There will be a prize awarded to the most generous individual / corporate sponsor.
Become an Individual Sponsor of your pub team in the 2008 South Downs Pub Sailing Regatta.
Become a Corporate supporter of Dreams Come True by sponsoring your local pub in the 2008 South Downs Pub Sailing Regatta.
| Contact Details | Send your booking forms and fee to: |
| Call: 01428 664 373 Mobile: 07900 675 898 Email: steve@spiritsailing.co.uk |
South Downs Pub Regatta Spirit Sailing Ltd. Home Farm Fernhurst West Sussex GU27 3JF |
Please note: Booking Forms (all registrations) with deposit must reach Spirit Sailing via email or post by 20th July 2008. (Contact details below)
Sponsorship forms and pledges are due by Monday 22nd September 2008
Sponsorship forms and pledges are due by Monday 22nd September 2008
| Entry fee per person (x 8 crew) | Sponsorship minimum per person (x 8 crew) | Combined (entry plus sponsorship) total |
| £300 | £100 | £400 per person |
| Entry fee per team | Sponsorship minimum per team | Total per team |
| £2,400 | £800 | £3,200 |
| Entry fee payment deadlines: | Attachments |
| 1) Registration fee (1st payment): £500 per team due 20th July 2008 | Send in completed booking form with cheque |
| 2) Interim payment: £1,000: per team due 13th August 2008 | Ensure you have included your pub team name |
| 3) Final payment: £900 per team due 13th September 2008 | Ensure you have included your pub team name |
| Sponsorship forms and funds key dates: | |
| 4) Sponsorship forms and pledges with full details due in by 22nd September 2008 | To Spirit Sailing address (Totals collected from each team will be checked to ascertain winner of Best Sponsor Award) |
| 5) All sponsorship funds to be in by October 31st 2008 | Cheque (for minimum of £800 per team) to be made out to “Dreams Come True”, and sent to Spirit Sailing with a copy of your completed sponsorship form. Note: Figures on forms must tally with cheque amount |
Please note it is the responsibility of participants to ensure that all Sponsorship forms and cheques arrive to Spirit Sailing safely and on time (e.g. using registered post) |
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| Press & Publicity Contact Details |
| For event information, press releases, or interviews with either Dreams Come True or Spirit Sailing, please call and ask for the Sailing Regatta press officer: |
| Mobile:07957 519 579 |
| Email: nicky.murray7@btinternet.com |
