SUMMER 2014 NEWSLETTER Greetings and welcome to all blind and visually-impaired sailors, sighted sailors, friends and supporters. It has taken us some time to pull together all our resources after losing our original BSI website. We are rebuilding it now at: www.blindsailinginternational.com This newsletter contains many items of interest (listed below) including updates on the […]
Archive | September, 2014
Australians, Brits win World Blind Match Racing Championship
http://cdn.sailingscuttlebutt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/blinds2014-1024×682.jpg Six teams representing Australia, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States competed in the IFDS Disabled Sailing World Blind Match Racing Championship, held at the U.S. Sailing Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin on September 10-14. The regatta was raced in Sail Sheboygan’s evenly matched Sonar fleet with sounding systems that indicate which tack the boat […]
Sheboygan Hosts Blind Sailing Championship
For many, the sport of sailing is about getting out there and seeing what the world’s waters have to offer. But that wasn’t exactly the case this weekend in Sheboygan. This weekend, Sheboygan played host to a world championship sailing competition but not one competitor saw the finish line. That’s because the athletes, are all […]
Bright future for blind match racing
When the 2014 IFDS Disabled Sailing World Blind Match Racing Championship was held September 10-14 in Sheboygan, WI, it was the first championship sailed with no sighted observers on board. At the seven minute count down, the team coaches left the racing boats, leaving the visually impaired sailors alone on board to race the boats […]