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SailAhead - "Let's Take A Veteran Sailing"
Centerport Yacht Club to host "Take A Veteran Sailing" event to help heal veterans with PTST and related disorders.
Northport Harbor, NY- On Sunday, July 29th, Centerport Yacht Club will be hosting SailAhead’s 4th annual event “Let’s Take a Veteran Sailing”. With the support of Greenlawn American Legion Post 1244, more than 140 veterans and family members, mostly from Long Island, will attend this event on a fleet of at least 45 sailboats.
Special SailAhead guests this year will be Our Mates and their families. Our Mates are the name tags of 219 veterans who have taken their lives because of PTSD or an inability to re-adapt to civilian life. SailAhead will honor the memory of these 219 veterans by bringing some of the families over from all across the country, they will be flown in free of charge to them. The objective of this is to make sure that the surviving family members know that they are not forgotten, nor their deceased loved ones. It is a way to remove them from isolation to show a great collective effort of appreciation and charity.
The purposes of the event are as follows:
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1) Honor and remember Our Mates and their family members.
2) Spread PTSD and suicide awareness throughout the community.
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3) Spread awareness of SailAhead’s program so that more wounded veterans can be helped.
The sailing event will last 8 hours; the flotilla will sail together on the Long Island Sound, a helicopter will fly through the fleet to take photos and video.
About SailAhead-
SailAhead is a 501c (3) not for profit organization, launched by the Duclay family in the winter of 2013. SailAhead has dedicated itself to helping wounded veterans using sailing as a form of therapy. In addition to the typical summer sailing season, SailAhead trains veterans, both mentally and physically wounded, all year around in all weather. Veterans also sail just for recreation with SailAhead. By 2018, SailAhead has taken over 1,500 veterans sailing!
Contact Info:
To learn more about this SailAhead event or for more information about other SailAhead activities, please visit www.SailAhead.org or email Sean Duclay at sean@sailahead.org or phone at (631) 662-9132.
(Photos courtesy of Phil Sweeney)