This weekend our crew of 12 kids and 6 bigger kids (adults) spent hours and hours turning a normal sail boat into a Pirate Boat. So around 200 kids who are ‘handy-capable’ could come in converted power boats to marauding Pirate boats and steal our treasure.
It was all part of the annual Variety Club Boats for Hope Charity. Which happens at a number of yacht clubs around BC. It has raised 1.2 million since it started.
What’s this goto do with heath?
Over the years I have read and watched lots of stuff about how to be happy and successful. Mostly they all say the same thing and one of those things is to donate your money and/or time to a worthwhile cause.
Doing Boats for Hope for the last few years I appreciate again why it is on the list of a successful life.
There is something moving to see a hundred plus people getting together to put something like this on. From all the yacht club members, fire, police, search and rescue, local businesses. Every one has a busy lives but each person put this ahead of all other things and that’s cool.
Then there is the children, they get loaded onto the boats by firefighters and taken to the six pirate boats with treasure. They hail how many kids, we pass over the treasure and then the water fight begins and it’s serious stuff. We have all manner of water guns, buckets, water balloons and a high pressure hose and pump! We all have a good time.
At the end all the pirate boats converge on each other for a water fight battle that makes the front page of most papers. After that it’s a big party at the club. Here’s the battle scene, I am on the bow with the hose in the yellow. https://www.facebook.com/AllBodyCare?ref=hl
Of course the real treat is to see the smiles on the faces of those children that have lives much more difficult than any of us want and if we can provide a bit of fun they can talk about for a few weeks, it’s all worth it.
I encourage you to pick some sort of ‘good deed’ work and start small and grow it from there. Boats for Hope started at the Royal Vancouver Yacht club when one of the members said, ‘hey lets make a difference’. And they do.
http://www.variety.bc.ca/boatforhope.htm
Thank you for reading,
Be Well,
Ward Willison
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