These competitors were invited to represent their 1999 hospice regattas in the National Hospice Regatta Championship 2000:

Doug Nugent – San Franciso Bay, California
J. William Healy – Long Island Sound, Connecticut
Barbara Reed – Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Scott Redmon – Mt. Desert, Maine
Jim Muldoon – Annapolis, Maryland
Gary Gregory – Marblehead, Massachusetts
Kirk Reynolds – Henderson Harbor, New York
Jay Tovey – Rochester, New York
Chris Bouzaid – Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
Joe Waters – Anderson, South Carolina
John Hanna – Hampton Roads, Virginia
Jerry Latell – Rappahannock River, Virginia