Team Yankee Point, VA- John “Jack” Marshall Moseley III, Skipper

On Saturday, March 20, Dr. John Moseley, overall winner of the 2003 Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta, passed away unexpectedly aboard his sailboat, Tusitala, in Deltaville, Virginia.

Our deepest sympathy to his family and friends.

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Jack is originally from Richmond, Virginia and grew up sailing at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville located on the Chesapeake Bay. Here he distinguished himself racing Penguins as a junior and Jollyboats throughout his high school and college years.

After receiving his medical degree in the late 1960s, Jack served as a flight surgeon in the US Navy at which time he moved to California. During the service, he purchased a 40-foot Mason ketch on which he and his wife embarked on a 2-year around the world cruise in 1979. The trip was interrupted by the birth of their first daughter onboard in New Zealand. While in New Zealand, he raced for the first time since college in the Tall Ships Regatta in the Bay of Islands placing second overall in a large fleet.

After returning to the States, he practiced medicine in Virginia and again in California where his life was threatened by brain cancer. Miraculously after eight difficult years of treatment and recuperation, he was pronounced cured of his illness. Subsequently he purchased a 47-foot cutter-rigged sloop, Tusitala (translated Teller of Tales in Samoan), from his father-in-law, John Townsend. Townsend, a mechanical engineer who had worked with Howard Hughes on his huge Spruce Goose troop-carrying airplane, designed and built Tusitala over a 14-year period in his backyard beginning in the late 1950s. After sailing this vessel from California to Virginia via the Panama Canal in 2000, Jack has permanently settled in his home at Deltaville. In his second attempt racing in the Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta for vintage yachts hosted by the Yankee Point Yacht Club in 2003, Tusitala was the overall winner.

Joining Jack at the National Hospice Regatta in April will be crewmembers Judy Buis from Richmond (a Past Commodore of FBYC and current Co-Chairman of the Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta to be held on July 10 in Deltaville), Jere Dennison from Richmond (a Past Commodore of FBYC), Owen Davidson from Christiansburg, Virginia, and Briana Moseley, the skipper’s youngest daughter from Santa Cruz, California. The crew plans to sail Tusitala to Annapolis and stay aboard her during the event.

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