Sailors with Disabilities
From: The Newport Daily News - 06/20/2015
By: James A. Johnson

Recent Portsmouth High School graduate Tyler Fleig combined his interests in
sailing and robotics to modify a 2.4 meter sailboat to make it usable for
quadriplegic sailors by creating a control panel of toggle switches to
activate sail winches.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.newportri.com/newportdailynews/news/page_one/he-prevailed-where-others-failed/article_a12aa991-e252-5f88-82ae-d7eb4d508fd2.html

Link:
A "Breakthrough" for Sailors with Disabilities
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2015/07/05/a-breakthrough-for-sailors-with-disabilities/

Related:
Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors
http://www.baads.org/

Submitted by Bruce Fleming