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The Kiwi Ability Regatta, held from January 29th - 30th at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club will be a regatta for sailors with Intellectual disability, those with Acquired Brain Injury and those on the Autism Spectrum.
This regatta will be competed in Access 303’s – crews can be fully ID, (where at least one sailor has racing experience at club level), or mixed (where ID sailor maintains helm, and non ID crew can control mainsail and/or jibsail). Tuesday 29th will begin with an afternoon practice sail, and a social opportunity to ‘experience’ Auckland City in the evening. Racing will take place on Wednesday 30th, followed by prizegiving and evening meal. Entry fee (tbc) will be kept to a minimum.
Please be aware, boats will not be provided by the organising authority. It will be a sailors responsibility to organise the loan of a boat from a Sailability Group. The organising authority are able to help you to make contact with groups to organise this.
Please complete an expression of interest asap to give us an idea of numbers. Contact Katy at sailabilityhb@xtra.co.nz to find out more.
