We are thrilled to announce that Nepean Sailing Club has received a grant for $1500 from the Ottawa Sport Council Foundation, for our ABLE Sail program, to further develop inclusive programming in Ottawa while embracing the True Sport Principles. This is to assist in COVID-19 recovery effort.
Check out the news release from the Ottawa Sport Council Foundation.
NSC Able Sail is looking for Enthusiastic volunteers to help NSC Able Sail with all of their Programming.
The International Association for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) has just published their end of year 2014 world rankings. In the one person 2.4mR class, NSC’s Christine Lavallée is currently ranked 31st, and Aaron Wong-Sing is ranked 34th.
The 2.4mR’s finished on Saturday.
The Nepean Sailing Club boasts one of Canada’s premiere training facilities for Paralympic sail training, so we were shocked by the recent International Paralympic Committee’s decision to exclude sailing from the 2020 Paralympic Games.
The C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic And Regatta (partnered with the U.S. Para Sailing Championship) was held June 20-25 in Newport, RI. This year’s event included Martin 16’s and 2.4mR’s (open to adaptive and able bodied sailors alike).