Riva_Roxaban
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@Antje77 You will have to keep track of this sailing boat "Sailors with disAbilities" in the Sydney to Hobart race at xmas.Brought my ladder, found out a new ladder has been installed onboardlastyear!
I had a wonderful day, great sailing (we must have tacked at least 40 times!), wonderful group!
At the end of day one they're already able to hoist and lower the sails by themselves without additional instruction from me, not something all groups manage on day 5, and that's including groups without learning disabilities.
One of them is a born deckhand, will have a talk with the non-disabled helpers to ask if it would be possible for him to work a regular job as a deckhand despite his disability.
Not only does he have a feeling for the workings on board and insight in the mechanics of it, he also is a natural when it comes to instructing his peers to solve an issue cropping up.
It made him sad it wouldn't be possible for him to do this work but he had trouble explaining exactly why his disability would make it impossible and asked me to ask the helper because she'd be able to explain better.
https://rolexsydneyhobart.com/the-yachts/2012/sailors-with-disabilities/