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Team Yankee Point VA
- Lee Williams, Skipper Lee Williams and his team represent the Hospice "Turkey Shoot" Regatta for Classic Boats, which will be held this year on October 11-13, hosted by Yankee Point YC. The regatta benefits Hospice Support Services of the Northern Neck. Lee retired from his Baltimore surgical practice ten years ago
and now lives in Irvington, Virginia with his wife Teensa. He has
been sailing small boats since age 10, competing mainly in local
yacht club races on the Rappahannock River. His present ambition
is to teach his twenty For forty years he has sailed his 24-foot Raven sloop Poe Bird. She is a centerboard, early fiberglas boat built in 1959 by Cape Cod Shipbuilding in Wareham, MA. In both 1996 and 2001, he and she won the "Turkey Shoot" hospice regattas, with the latter win earning him the privilege of representing the regatta at the national championship. The Yankee Point team includes John McConnico, Mark Allen, Howard
Williams and Phillip Williams. John has been sailing large boats
for 25 years, including an Atlantic crossing. As previous owner
of Yankee Point Marina, he was instrumental in developing the local
hospice regatta, and now is president of the Hospice Support Services
of the Northern Neck. He sails a Blackwatch 37 named Country
Woman, in which he has raced from Annapolis to Newport, and
single-handed from Bermuda to his home at Yankee Point where he
resides with his wife Carole Jean. Mark Allen is vice-president
and part owner of a paper processing company with plants throughout
Virginia. He has been sailing for years, most recently on his Galaxy
32. Howard Williams is a Baltimore physician who has been sailing
small boats since childhood and is now teaching his three daughters
to sail. Phillip Williams is manager of rail freight services of
the Maryland Transit Administration. Sailing small boats since childhood,
on Squam Lake in New Hampshire and on the Rappahannock River in
Virginia, at one time he taught sailing at Camp Wachusett in New
Hampshire.
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