Queen City Disabled Sailing
3000 Wascana Drive Regina, SK, Canada

Hello Queen City! We hope all of you are staying safe in these crazy times we are living in. Unfortunately we do not have any club updates for programming as of yet, due to restrictions still being in place. Until then, stay safe sailors! Can’t wait to see you all again.

A little look at what another club in Atlantic Canada is doing from 2019 - they use a different type of boat than QCDSC uses, but the goal of making sailing accessible for everyone is the same!

30 years ago in 1989, sailor Brent Foote was the first participant in the Disabled Sailing Association program. Sailing a Sunbird sailboat, a single person boat... donated by Rick Hansen to Sam Sullivan, Brent was excited to get back on the water after he was injured 10 years prior. I got to be the test guinea pig for the whole [program], Brent reminisces, the boat was launched not really knowing if I could sail it, or really what was going to happen. After the success of this first sail, Sam and Brent noticed that the Sunbird wasn’t very well suited to the instructional aspect of disabled sailing. So, they worked with Don Martin to design what we now know as the Martin 16, We needed a boat that would sit two people the idea is that in a two-person boat you get more instructors and newer people out. You couldn’t throw a new person in the Sunbird and wish them good luck you really needed someone to go along to train. After this boat was built and perfected, it replaced all the Sunbirds and the program continued to grow. Today Brent continues to sail and race every summer with the DSA down at Jericho and around BC, I come because of the people, the fun, the sailing, and racing with, of course, a beer afterwards. He loves the attitude of staff throughout the years, it’s always been about enthusiasm and fun and getting out. The staff all seem to know what they’re doing each year it gets more and more organized, which is a good thing. His advice to new sailors is to just have fun! You may not like it, it’s not for everybody. Go out with an instructor and don’t go out on a really windy day. It’s like when you go skiing for the first time, don’t go straight to the most difficult run. Brent’s advice to the DSA? No advice needed, except we need a dock. We need a freaking dock! That’s about it. We’re definitely working on it Brent! Here’s to 30 more years of DSA

We are sad to announce that due to the need for social distancing during the Covid 19 pandemic, the Queen City Disabled Sailing Club is not taking any sailing bookings at this time. Watch our page for updates as provincial restrictions change. Stay safe!

Mobility Cup 2020 and Able Sail Toronto is proud to announce Gallagher Skippers’ Plan Insurance as one of the Mobility Cup sponsors. Thank you Gallagher!

Please join us at our 2020 Annual General Meeting. Thank you for your support and we hope to see you there!