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SAILABILITY, Hawkes Bay
Founded in 2009, extremely active for over 10 years, with a Cook Strait Crossing as the ultimate adventure, While covid and cyclone Gabrielle put a Damper on things, it is time to kick start the Adventures again, with a New Chair and a reinvigorated Commitee Sailability Hawkes Bay along with Napier Sailing club are pleased to be working together to once again have Sailability back out on the waters of Ahuriri.
What We are About:
The Aim is to make sailing accessible for all people, regardless of age or ability.
With the use of Hansa 303 and Liberty class yachts with adaptable seating and controls, this enables sailors to experience the freedom of sailing.
The plan is to offer Weekly Opportunities to come along and have a go and learn what it is to harness mother nature in all her glory.
Contact us to register your interest be it Individuals or for Groups!
SAILABILITY
The word ‘Sailability’ is an identity that some groups choose to adopt to make them known as an inclusive organization. Sailability is a global movement aimed at making the sport accessible for all, and takes a different shape at each sailing club or stand alone group that offers specialist sailing opportunities for disabled people. Sailability programmes around New Zealand provide opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to learn to sail, take part in racing, or just to experience being on a sailing boat.
As of early 2018, there are 10 Sailability groups/programmes in New Zealand: Sailability Northland, Sailability Auckland, Sailability Rotorua, Sailability Waikato, Sailability Tauranga, Sailability Hawkes Bay, Sailability Taranaki, Sailability Wanganui, Sailability Wellington and Sailability Nelson. There is a handful other sailing clubs that offer inclusive programmes and adaptive equipment (without taking the name Sailability).
Commonly used equipment by Sailability groups/programmes include a C-Crane for helping to lift people in and out of boats and adaptive boats such as those made by Hansa with a weighted centreboard to prevent capsize.
Disabled people who sail with Sailability groups that take part in racing are also members of sailing clubs, and race at many of the same regattas with the exact same rules as all other sailors in New Zealand.