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Charter for Veterans Inc.
4222 Fortuna Center Plaza, #278
Dumfries, VA 22025-1515
Donors will receive a receipt for tax purposes.
My father Lenny and I have decades of experience bringing joy to guests on the Chesapeake and other lakes and rivers throughout Maryland, Virginia and beyond. We have taken hundred of guests out on the water with the charity and thousands beyond the charity work. Our outings have included watersports, fishing, crabbing, kayaking, paddle boarding and island hopping. They have included scenic sunrise and sunset cruises, sightseeing to lighthouses, restaurant hopping, and shooting star cruises at night on the Bay as a way to celebrate and enjoy life on the water. These experiences coupled with having both served in the Marines helps us to understand and know what to do to organize and execute the perfect day on the Chesapeake Bay for our veterans. We have brought this all together with the top charter boat on the bay and one of the most well known and respected charter captains in the industry along with high class and patriotic first mates. The end result is the perfect day on the water. A day to look forward to, experience and to look back on with fond memories. A day to build more great days upon.
Our 2025 commitment. Once again all of our administrative costs of the company are already covered by annual donations from our directors, officers and team. This ensures that every additional donation we take in today goes directly towards outings for 2025. You have our commitment to be good stewards of your donations.
On behalf of my father Lenny, my brother Steve and my entire team, we thank you for your continued support to our cause. Since our inception, the majority of our support has come from sisters, brothers, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends. We can not say thank you enough to our special donors from the great states of North Carolina, Massachusettes, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, California, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland, and our overseas brother in Japan who have consistently supported us all these years. A couple of these family's have donated over a dozen cruises each to our cause. We are forever grateful.
In loving memory to my grandmother who loved the Bay and supported many cruises along with two great friends from Fredericksburg, VA and France who donated numerous events since our founding.
Captain and Mate charges range between $1000-$2000 per outing depending on our volume of guests who are able to make it.
For about $400 each outing, we go through coolers as one of our main next expenses. These vary in size to help transport food and drinks and to support sending guests home with their catch.
We typically cater meals from Wegman's Grocery. They have excellent spreads for morning coffee and donuts and we also do a second meal full spread of sandwiches and deserts. These with drinks and ice and a box of Joe run about $400 per event.
Just throwing a picture on here sent by a quest who smoked the rockfish they caught that day and sent to us!
