Team Havre de Grace MD - John Vanderhoff, Skipper

John Vanderhoff and team will represent the Harford Hospice Regatta, which will be held this year on May 31, hosted by Havre de Grace YC. The regatta benefits Harford Hospice of Upper Chesapeake Health.

John won the Harford Hospice Regatta's daysailer class for the last two years. The other members of the team, also from the Havre de Grace YC ranks, are Jeff Allred, Randy Eckman, Bill McCrae and Fred Reynolds. His sailboat racing career started on the Chesapeake Bay after finishing his Army tour of duty at Aberdeen Proving Ground. For a few years he competed in PHRF, then purchased a J/24 in partnership with Ralph Skelly and raced that for awhile. Then came the Star boats.

About 1980, he crewed on a Star with Bob McVey and subsequently purchased one. Presently, six Star boats later, he actively races on the Chesapeake Bay during the warm months, and on Biscayne Bay in the winter. He has won the Star Chesapeake Bay High Point trophy once, and Masters division in the Star North Americans.