Youth Fund

Each year the regatta and participants aim to try and contribute back to the island in the best way possible.
Whilst there tends to be a sport/yachting bias we are also open to other causes.

In the past we have covered the costs of hospital fees for one of our sailing volunteers children, we have raised money for a Sports Scholarship at Bluewater School on the island and now we sponsor one of the youth sailors, Garfield, pictured below.

As well as this we work with Bluewater School to do a big beach clean up every year.

Youth Sailing Fund

The young sailor we are sponsoring is, Nattakarn Panyawan (Garfield). Garfield’s Dad is a captain on boats in Samui and her Uncle Saard represented Thailand in Two Olympics and numerous ASEA & SEA games, taking Gold in Windsurfing. He is also a regular supporter of the regatta.

Name: Nattakarn Panyawan (Garfield)

Age: 10 years, DOB 29/2/2000 (leap Year)

Nationality: Thai

School Grade: Bor 4 (Grade 4), Golden Mountain Temple School, Maenam.

Height: 1.37m

Experience:
Garfield started sailing in Sept 2009 as a beginner and has advanced very well. Her first regatta was at the Admirals cup in January 2010 and she received best beginner prize. She is very committed and enjoys participating in the sailing.

So far in 2010 she has participated in:

Top of the Gulf, Koh Samui & Hua Hin

If you would like to contribute to the Regatta Youth Fund so we can support additional sailors on the island please contact Callum on ksr@mobyelite.com


-- Other Charities that we support throughout the year.
- School Building project in Northern Thailand
- Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities in Thailand