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Sail Beyond Cancer® USA's 2025 Impact Video highlights a transformative year of free cancer respite sails across our chapters in Vermont, Annapolis, North Shore, and Virginia.

Sail Beyond Cancer Newport is ready to rock and roll into the 2026 sailing season on Narragansett Bay. Over two dozen cancer patients have been nominated to join us aboard our flagship, ALBA, and other dedicated and privately-owned vessels for a private, three-hour respite sail.

"Terrell’s connection to Sail Beyond Cancer began long before she ever set foot on a sailboat. As exercise partners, she and her friend Suzanne Snyder often exchanged ideas and encouragement. In early 2014 when Suzanne was diagnosed with breast cancer, she envisioned creating meaningful respite experiences for others facing cancer. Terrell urged her friend to “run with it.”

Around the Thanksgiving table, we also hold space for our friends and family who have crossed over the bridge. On a more intimate level, Sail Beyond Cancer’s 3- hour memorial sails provide a safe, distraction-free and healing environment to memorialize those who have succumbed to cancer.

Growing the Sail Beyond Cancer Community – Nominate, Donate, Volunteer: We’re thrilled to be featured by DOCKWA, a leading platform in the boating world

Board member and cancer survivor Kim Lawver sits for an interview on the Hampton Road Show to share about the new Sail Beyond Cancer...

"For people caught in the maelstrom of cancer, Sail Beyond Cancer offers respite..." Sail Beyond Cancer featured in Sail Magazine's March...

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Get to Know: Sail Beyond Cancer Posted on April 30th, 2024 By Fern Nibauer-Cohen Suzanne Johnson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. An active single mother of three young children, Suzanne was used to multitasking as she was a serial entrepreneur and was well known in her community of Burlington, VT as a realtor, restauranter and aerobics instructor. During her eight years of treatment, she went through some major moments of transformation.  Looking back on that time,

One local sailor, in particular, has had an especially profound impact on the group’s efforts since coming onboard in the early stages of the Annapolis chapter. After leading numerous sails on the Bay, volunteer captain Joe Zebleckes became a cancer patient himself. After his own final sail with the team, he left the remarkable gesture of donating his personal sailboat, Anneliese , a Beneteau 40, to the organization. Read full article: https://www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/s

Steve Milizia talks with Suzanne Johnson, Cpt. Doug White, Vince Hampson, and Laura Bowe about the cancer respite sails and gratitude for...

We are incredibly honored that Gary Jobson has chosen to endorse Sail Beyond Cancer Gary Jobson, a World Class Sailor, fully supports...

When learning of a friend or loved one’s cancer diagnosis, there is often a feeling of helplessness. On so many levels, the experience is...