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LEISURE AND OUTDOORS - SAILING
INDIVIDUALS ORGANISATIONS PRODUCTS SOCIAL MEDIA
| "YOU can't miss me. I'm the one in the wheelchair!" Paralympic sailor Dan Fitzgibbon said when we planned to meet. At 31, the world champion racer is not what you'd expect of someone who lost the use of his legs and has only partial use of his arms after C5 spinal injury a decade ago. Sitting beside his new specially designed Skud 18 racing boat at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron at Manly, his larger-than-life appearance and flashing eyes are indeed unmistakable and he's a man who knows what he's talking about..."I can't drive a car, but I can sail - and the world is 70 per cent water!"
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| The ABC TV 'AUSTRALIAN STORY' profile on Phil Vardy - his career and his journey into sailing... "One of the great thrills for me now is to see the other people getting a thrill out of sailing as well, especially in access dinghies, and there are now hundreds of these things all over Australia. At an access dinghy regatta, there's often not a dry eye in the place, and there are thousands of smiles".
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| After 12 years in the RAF as a Physical Training and Adventure Training Instructor playing sport and living the outdoor life for a living, the grim reaper finally popped his head up and said, "You're having too much fun?" |
| On 31st August 2009 Hilary Lister became the first disabled woman to sail solo around Britain. Having a degenerative condition(quadriplegia)she is only able to move her head and sails using three straws to control the boat.
Hilary sailed into the record books on 23rd August 2005 when she sailed solo across the English Channel. Hilary says that through sailing she 'gains a sense of freedom that I never thought would be possible again!'
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| We believe sailing is the sport where disabled people feel most able. Thus, BAADS seeks to make all aspects of sailing in the San Francisco Bay Area accessible. This includes full participation in teaching sailing, cruising, racing, and developing engineering designs for adaptive equipment to benefit people with diverse abilities.
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| Blind Sailing International is the governing body
for competitive international sailing
for persons who are blind or visually impaired. |
| The Official Website of The New Zealand Council for Sailing
for the Blind and Vision Impaired Inc.
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| Part of the joy for Terry LeBlanc is working the entire experience by intuition as much as by mariner's skills. He merely needs to bite, breathe and think to sail his boat and gain an intense feeling of freedom on the waters of Vancouver's English Bay.
It's mostly due to the Sip 'n' Puff technology of the Martin 16 sailboat that LeBlanc uses. Sailors to chose either trimming the sails or directing the tiller, simply by biting the plastic straw. The interface of hardware and firmware allows even a high level quadriplegic to operate a sailboat. |
| The international body for SAILING FOR EVERYONE. |
| Welcome to the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST), a unique charity that aims to promote the integration of people of all physical abilities through the challenge and adventure of tall ship sailing. JST owns and operates two tall ships, LORD NELSON, and TENACIOUS. These magnificent ships are the only two vessels in the world that have been purpose-designed and built to enable a crew of mixed physical abilities to sail side by side on equal terms.
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| Sailing is one of the world's most popular sports is also one of the few sports that can truly be enjoyed by the whole family, from youngest child to grandparents, and it's a great sport for parents to enjoy with children, whether it be sailing together in a doublehanded dinghy, in singlehanded dinghies, or as a larger group on a yacht. If you want to find out more about how to get involved with sailing, then read on. |
| The USA National Disabled Sailing program. First-time and experienced sailors are welcome at Sail To Prevail. Our program is available to all people with disabilities and has programs designed to meet specific needs. The Sail To Prevail docks are located at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, and parking is onsite. All docks and facilities are 100% accessible, including Hoyer and Spectrum lifts for transfers. |
| Sailability caters for people with a wide range of disabilities and sailing experience. Australian disabled sailors have competed here and overseas in Hobie catamarans, Ynglings, 2.4mRs, Sonars and Access dinghies.? |
| Welcome to the Sailability Illawarra home page!
Sailability Illawarra is a regional branch of Sailability NSW, which is based in Sydney. We are based at the Illawarra Yacht Club in 1 Northcliffe Drive, Warrawong, which is a suburb of Wollongong, just south of Sydney, NSW, Australia. |
| Around the world Sailability operates under different names. Sailability organisations are “not for profit”, volunteer-based, and through the activity of Sailing enriches the lives of people of all abilities – the elderly, the financially and socially disadvantaged as well as people with physical challenges. |
| Options for Sailors with Disabilities |
| Sailors with disABILITIES is committed to changing society's perception of people with disabilities. Harbour sailing, ocean racing, the youth program and the inshore and coastal training program are just some of the ways of achieving this. Incredibly, the Aspect Sailors with disABILITIES yacht achieved 1st in the PHS Division and 9th over line in the tragic 1998 Sydney to Hobart race. SWD have enjoyed many other remarkable racing successes. |
| The 'Shake-A-Leg' Miami sailing program helps children and adults with physical, developmental and economic challenges; liberating them from the realm of imagination into the realm of experience. The Shake-A-Leg Miami Aquatic Center and Marine Academy, has been built, and the people are coming! Every day, we set sail to build friendships, instill confidence, teach skills, and provide hope and new opportunities. To witness a child who has never before been in a boat, get into a Shake-A-Leg boat, and become an active participant of the crew, is a sight that is a supreme delight! For over fifteen years, we have seen this sight countless times over, and it is still a thrill.
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| A global adaptive sailing program, providing Paralympic class sailboats to the disabled and blind, free of charge, no matter where they are from. Anyone using teamPARADISE equipment or taking part in a teamPARADISE sponsored program, is considered a teamPARADISE sailor. |
| The US Disabled Sailing Team, created in 1998 to develop athletes for Paralympic competition.? |
| The world's first and only commercially available sailing simulator. Virtual sailing simulators have been utilised for training purposes by able-bodied sailors and sailors with disabilities, such as high level quadriplegia. Virtual sailing simulators are a great introduction to sailing and will inspire people of all abilities to get out on the water. |
| VSail-Simulators have many applications from Learn to Sail to High Performance. Olympic sailors have praised VSail simulators in the lead up to the 2008 Olympics. Four Olympians have this to say about VSail-Trainers.
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| One man, one boat and one motley crew, all with one mission: to complete the world’s most dangerous and deadly ocean race. This is the story of the Sailors with Disabilities, a crew where broken backs and missing limbs present no obstacle.
Sailors with Disabilities are looking towards their 17th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. This is one mighty crew; led by skipper David Pescud, they have twice won their division in the Hobart, and are World Record holders for circumnavigating Australia.
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| "When 50 boats kicked off the Barcolana Regatta tradition in 1969, no one guessed 2002's race would attract nearly 2,000 vessels. The event is open to all monohull sailboatsand in 2002 it was open to all sailors." |
| "Sailing across the tropical blue waters of Miami's Biscayne Bay for a sun-drenched weekend in the middle of winter may sound like a relaxing vacation paradise to some. But for a group of sailing enthusiasts with disabilities it meant putting all friendships aside while on the water and competing for the annual bragging rights and their name on the prized Shake-A-Leg Miami's Mid-Winter Regatta cup." |
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