Supporting Accessible Sailing for Blind and Low-Vision Sailors

Can I go sailing? If you're blind or low vision. You take people out on boats that can't see. Yes.

You're kidding. Yeah, I'm actually legally blind myself. And you go sailing? Yeah.

You take blind people sailing in the rain? Yeah. That's pretty crazy. I mean, as long as there's not lightning, we're good.

Yeah. How does it work? So, we printed topography maps. The whole thing is blind people can do anything that sighted people can.

Yeah. Just in a different way. So, these topography maps give the sailors the shape of the lake, what's around, the terrain. You know, here's another one.

Teaches them points of sailing. And they can feel and they have an idea because some people are completely blind. Yeah. Some people are like me, partial.

So, do you do this full-time? Yes. How do you get paid to do this? I don't get paid.

I've never You don't This is your full-time job that you don't get paid to do? Yeah, I actually work at a hospital full-time. So, what happens if there's people like me who would probably crash into like a bank? Anyone can sail with a good instructor.

Being on the water, you said is the most expensive sport. So, how are you able to afford to give it to everybody for free? That has a lot to do with my partners. So, the people who are donating to the Minneapolis Sailing Center, my that is the reason why we've been able to offer it for free.

So, how can people support it? Yeah, you can go to twincitiesblindsailing.org. We have a donation link. People can click on that.

It goes through PayPal. Can I make the first donation? Is that possible? I won't say no to that.

Yeah. Can I use it for whatever? Oh, thank you so much. Get people out there.

Yeah. Keep Keep being you. I don't want you to stop. so much.

Cuz you're making You're making a big Yeah, come here. Yes. Thank you. I want you to keep doing that because it's making a difference in the world.

Thank you.