The search for an accessible boat

I’m a member of Port Edgar Yacht Club, and like most clubs and recreational sailors, our default position regarding charities has always been to support the RNLI. Everyone loves the RNLI, and some of us have had the misfortune to be towed back by them. For me, nothing life-threatening, fortunately – just a rather embarrassing engine failure on a strong ebbing tide when there was no wind to enable us to sail to safety. It’s hardly surprising that proceeds from our jumble sales, raffles or donations of any kind went straight to this wonderful organisation.

So when one of our members suggested that the proceeds of the raffle go instead to Fife Sailability one year it came as a surprise. Most of us had never heard of the organisation. So he raised awareness of the club and started a journey for me that began with a visit to see them in action, which ultimately led me to becoming a trustee of the charity and then its chairman.

Fife Sailability, based at Lochore Meadows, was founded in 2012