On Sunday, June 23, 2024, the DeSatnick Foundation will host a 14.50-mile circumnavigation of Cape May Island. SUP 14' (Male and Female), OC1, Surf Ski, Prone UL, 14', 12', Van Duyne and Self-bailing Lifesaving Boats will be entered. The modified course will start at approximately 0845 at the Fishermen's Memorial in Cape May Harbor. There will be on-course time limits, which paddlers are required to agree upon, and the entire course MUST be completed in under 3 hours 30 minutes. This is a challenging test in its own sense, as participants will paddle past the USCG TRA-CEN, the only training center/boot camp facility in the entire country, through the Cold Spring Inlet, which is over one mile long and home to the third-largest commercial fishing fleets on the East Coast, past the USS Atlantus, the world-famous sunken concrete ship, and through the Cape May Canal, which was dug by the Army Corp of Engineers in 1942 to reduce the risk of attack by German U-Boats.
Remember that our mission is to assist those living with paralysis and Spinal Cord Injury in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean and Monmouth Counties, emotionally and financially. Our Foundation recently purchased beach wheelchairs and will be distributing them to Cape May Point, Cape May, Longport, Ship Bottom, Seaside Park, Lavalette and Ocean Grove. As one of our long-time supporters and past Champions said, "People are still suffering SCI's and living with paralysis. We plan to paddle this year.”
