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New York -- Oswego County
Hospice Cup Regatta  
Bob Porter and the crew of HARRIER will represent the Oswego Hospice Regatta at the National Regatta held during March in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Bob has been racing for over 20 years on Lakes Michigan, Huron and Ontario. He sails under the burgee of the Oswego Yacht Club where he has been the PHRF fleet captain for three of the past four years. Bob teaches Emergency Medical Service personnel and authors paramedic textbooks to support his sailing habit. HARRIER is a term sometimes used to describe a long distance runner, what Bob was some 30 years and 100 pounds ago. HARRIER is a tartan 30 C built in 1978 and represents the classic, heavy displacement, cruiser/racer of that era. She currently races the waters of Lake Ontario though she plans to try her hand at the Chicago, and then the Port Huron, to Mackinac Races in 2001. HARRIER, Bob and her crew have done very well over the last few years. In 1998 HARRIER claimed overall championship honors at the Eastern Yacht Circuit (East-end of Lake Ontario) Regatta. In 1999 she won both the PHRF and Offshore Divisions of the Canadian Olympic Regatta - Kingston and repeated that performance in 2000. In 2000, HARRIER also went on to win the Lake Yacht Racing Association Regatta (LYRA is the second oldest Regatta in the world, second only to the America's Cup). There she won her division of the three long distance races, winning the overnight -Freeman Cup race overall and placing a close second in the buoy races. Based upon these performances, HARRIER was named Lake Ontario Boat of the Year for 2000.
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