HUNT LAWRENCE (USA)|
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Oakcliff Sailing, with its 100+ boat fleet, wide ranging programmes that teach youngsters about life as well as sailing and a team of world-class sailors like Dave Perry led by Whitbread and AC veteran Dawn Riley, is now a worldwide benchmark. But while it is now largely self-funding Oakcliff Sailing Center only exists because of the foresight and financial backing of Hunt and Betsy Lawrence when the story first began back in 2010
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| Why they won |
| ‘Hunt and Betsy Lawrence have already raised the level of sailing
in the US, and they are just getting started!’ – Dave Perry;
‘American sailing’s national treasure’ – Lansing Hays; ‘Hunt has
provided me with so many opportunities I would never otherwise
have had’ – Blake Loncharich; ‘Without him a whole marina full of
historical classic yachts would no longer exist’ – Richard Davies;
‘Simply to say “thank you” from the wooden boat community’
– Wendy Bliss; ‘Hunt and Betsy Lawrence have accomplished
something that the sailing world has never seen’ – Don Costanzo;
‘Congratulations on a life well lived!’ – Lynda Lane. |
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