Disability and Accessibility
Sailing clubs and centres should offer a welcome to everyone and encourage all people to take part in the sport of sailing, training facilities, and the social life of the club.
Disabled people sometimes find that their welcome is restricted by barriers both in and outside the building and by the attitudes of some people.
The RYA Sailability Foundation scheme explained in Chapter 5 - Shore-based facility recognition, aims to ensure people can attend a club or center, get changed, sail, shower and get involved with any other activities at the club whether not they can walk, talk or see in the same way as the majority.
To understand this further please see the document called Are you premises welcoming.
We also have a series of brief guidelines giving information about accessability in sailing sites.