The Nancy Hood-Good Founders Award

The Nancy Hood-Good Award is to be donated in 2023. It is to honor our founding member Nancy Hood-Good, who had the vision, foresight, and dedication to start a women’s sailing club in 1967.  It is a brass platter on a wooden base representing the 25 years of dedication the recipient has given to fostering Nancy’s spirit and commitment.  To present this award, a slate of members with a minimum of 25 years of service will be selected by a committee of at least three members and chaired by the previous recipient. The committee the first year shall be composed of three members with 25 years continuous membership selected by the presiding Captain. If the previous recipient is unable to chair the next committee, the presiding Captain shall select the committee. The slate will be presented via email two weeksbefore and voted on by the membership at the New Member Coffee and general membership meeting with the award presented at the Spring Luncheon.  This award can be won by an individual only one time. An appropriate keeper charm shall be presented to the recipient the following year.  

Nominees for the first annual Nancy Hood Good Founders Award are:

Sylvia Mabe – Joined 1972 

Ann Newton – Joined 1973 

Terry Schweiger – Joined 1974 

This group is special because each nominee had the privilege of knowing and sailing with Nancy Hood Good.  They were able to work, play and sail with her, and in the years following, have actively kept her vision alive.  They have all been members continuously since they joined.  

With our other awards, we tell you all the great accomplishments each of these womenhas made during their years of membership.  All are substantial and we’d be here a long time with a long list for each.  That only enumerates what they have done, not who they are and why they were nominated for this special award.  Each woman is special and unique, no one contribution can be judged with a higher value than another.  

In that regard the committee feels the contributions of all three are unequaled in their roles of leadership and participation in Windlasses.  They are role models, mentors, and friends.  Each has shown us how, in their own unique way, to be good members through their actions and words.  Their guidance has been unmatched and inspirational in leadership, sailing, and participation in special events and all things Windlasses.  They have led us through both good, challenging, and controversial times, working equally with those who want change and those who want to keep tradition.  Each nominee has volunteered their time, talent, and wisdom with the best interest of the club in mind.  These are the leaders, participants and mentors who have created the kind of club we all love.  

They continue to share their knowledge, teaching us skills sailing, rules, operating power boats, race committee and much more.  They share willingly and do not judge but show us the passion for the sport encouraging camaraderie to each other and commitment to Windlasses.  

They each joined as sailors, only Sylvia still sails.  Ann continues to participate on our protest hearings and Terry has always been available to lend her power boat for racing or cruising and has been the calm in stormy seas.  They have all contributed to sailing events with other women’s clubs and have kept us a viable and competitive club in the sailing community of Florida.  Each has been the recipient of the Sportsmanship award, showing all the qualities of the sailor Nancy had hoped to bring to the club.