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The Great Canadian Accessible Sailboat Fleet
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BOATS |
BC |
AB |
SK |
MB |
ON |
QC |
NB |
NS |
NF |
Totals |
| 2.4mR |
2 |
|
|
|
15 |
|
|
|
|
17 |
| Access |
6 |
2 |
|
|
53 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
2 |
77 |
| Challenger Tri. |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Freedom/Ind.-20 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
3 |
| Hobie-Trapseat |
14 |
2 |
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
19 |
| Martin-16 |
14 |
5 |
1 |
6 |
18 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
|
52 |
| Mini-12 |
12 |
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
|
16 |
| Sonar |
3 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
5 |
| Sunbird |
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
| Other keelboats |
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
|
|
|
6 |
|
TOTALS |
51 |
10 |
2 |
6 |
102 |
11 |
5 |
9 |
2 |
198 |
Notes:
1) this data does not include the boats used by Queens Quay Yachting with the CHIRS program, nor the Lake Joseph YC program with CNIB, nor Bronte Harbour YC's keelboats for its annual program for persons with a visual impairment.
2) for strategic planning purposes with its Long Term Athlete Development Model, the CYA needs to put on paper a boat progression model for the development classes for athletes with a disability just as it does for its other programs, where for example one moves from an Optimist to a 420 then a 29er and then Olympic class boats. In our case the obvious categories are the cat rigged Access 2.3 for entry level, then all the sloop classes: Martin-16, 303, Liberty, Challenger, Trapseat, Freedom-20, with the Martin-T/Martin162 at the top prior to the three Paralympic classes of 2.4mR, SKUD-18 and Sonar. This is an exercise of logic on paper where in reality one can start anywhere in the system if you have the capabilities to handle the boat.
3) data based on this newsletter's survey in fall 2005, updating its work from the previous year.
4) data updated June 2007
Your National Sailing Network
As a member of the CYA http://www.sailing.ca/about/organization you are part of the Accessible Sailing Network. Through the CYA and it's (your) provincial sailing associations (PSA's) http://sailing.ca/organizations/provincial/ we are building sustainable networks that foster inclusion through sailing as leisure, recreation and sport. You get a lot now from your network that you may take for granted, whether it's learn-to-sail or learn-to-race, regattas, instructor and program liability insurance.
Future News
Looking forward to promoting accessible sailing together.
Send news as it happens.
Keith Hobbs
My role with the CYA Accessible Sailing Committee and sailing overall is strictly as a volunteer, including production of this newsletter and liaising with sailors and programs across the country in support of all events and class associations.
CYA Staff
http://sailing.ca/contact/index.asp
CYA's Provincial Sailing Associations
http://sailing.ca/organizations/provincial/index.asp
CYA's national partner, the ALACD:
Active Living Alliance for Canadians with Disabilities
http://www.ala.ca/content/home.asp
ALACD Community Development Representatives
http://www.ala.ca/Content/Contact/Overview.asp?langid=1
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