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Charleston Healing Sail May, 2017 Dealing with cancer, pain and anxiety tends to take over one's daily focus. Spending the day on the water transports one to a place far from health issues. It's an experience I will look back on when I need to quiet the internal noise of living with cancer.
It was a day for eye patches and parrots for children and their families dealing with cancer. WBZ-TV’s Paula Ebben reports. Watch News Report on WBZ 4 CBS Boston Here!
Katelyn McSherry’s memories of her mother on the water stretch back to when she was growing up in Portsmouth. “Growing up, we always had a boat,” she said. When her mother, Beth McSherry Goyette, was diagnosed with lung cancer, she and her daughter found themselves back out on a boat in 2015. This time, though, […]
Local volunteer captains treated cancer patients to a day of sailing through Sailing Heals. Jessica Zamanski has lived near the coast her entire life but had rarely been out sailing before Wednesday when she took her sister and mother out for a day on Scituate Harbor. For Zamanski, a patient at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, […]
A sunhat on her head and a content grin on her face, Fran Eppig takes a deep breath and relaxes. “This is perfect. Just beautiful,” she says to her fellow sailors on the 43-foot Fountaine Pajot catamaran Dreamweaver. Eppig, diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2009, is a strong woman. She’s a triathlete,
Dr. Charles Kite born in Montreal, Canada (1949) had a life long love of the water that began on Saratoga Lake in NY, when his father took him sailing in his 16' Rebel. Later he would further his love through his parent's summer homes on the shore of Chesapeake Bay and then Chatham, MA, where he sailed everything from a Sunfish to a 33' Swiftsure (named of the America's Cup winner in 1962). He was always at peace when sailing, despite what the conditions may have been. His love of sailing has been passed on to his children and grandchildren. Sailing heals is a great organization that provides this peaceful enjoyment to people go through tumultuous times.
August 15, 1949 - January 4, 2019
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