Sports Capital Grants 2023 - Is Your Club or Training Centre Looking for a Boat to Provide Disabled Access to Sailing?

5th September 2023

A lot of clubs and training centres have asked for the option of sailing craft that is suitable for disabled access such as the RS Venture Connect

A lot of clubs and training centres have asked for the option of sailing craft that are suitable for disabled access such as the RS Venture Connect

Sports Capital Grants 2023 - Is your club or training centre looking for a boat to provide disabled access to sailing?

With deadlines due at the end of the week, there is still time to get your quote from Marine Services.ie who are the leading dealers in Ireland for:

RS Sailing Dinghies
Airfloat Modular Pontoons
Selva Outboard Engines
RS Electric RIBs
Vanguard RIBs

There is still time left for you to get a competitive quote before Friday’s deadline. Don’t hesitate to contact [email protected]

From our enquiries, we have seen a lot of clubs and training centres have asked for the option of sailing craft that are suitable for disabled access to our fantastic sport.

For this solution, look no further than the RS Venture Connect.

The RS Venture Connect has a lifting bulb keel for exceptional security and seaworthiness

This is the self-righting keelboat version of the RS Venture, with a lifting bulb keel for exceptional security and seaworthiness.

It's large, self-draining cockpit makes the RS Venture Connect perfectly suited to unforgettable family adventures afloat. And it offers training centres a secure, multi-person boat for confidence-inspiring tuition.

Designed with plug & play parasailing equipment options, the RS Venture Connect can be set up for almost any disability – and changed between sessions as required. From able-bodied to sip/puff electronic control, the RS Venture Connect does it all.

The RS Venture Connect has twin rudders for exceptional control in all conditions

The RS Venture boats the following features

Exceptionally stable and self-righting
130kg keel with lead bulb and aluminium alloy fin
Removable keel hoist post and winch for easy keel lifting & lowering
Twin rudders for exceptional control in all conditions
Self-draining cockpit – transom drain tubes quickly clear spray and rainwater
Non-slip grip surfaces throughout the entire cockpitDurable Dacron mainsail and furling jib for training or cruising
Connect R race spec Mylar mainsail and high denier Dacron jib
Asymmetric gennaker spinnaker option
Trapeze pack option – for training or young sailor fun.

Para Sailing – Plug in and Play

Full range of options which can be added or removed as required
Allows the same boat to be used for either able-bodied or disabled sailing
Reconfigure the boat quickly to suit virtually anyone
A significant step forward and a huge advantage for many sailing centres
Twin forward-facing side-by-side seats
Easy communication between sailors
Adjustable seat position and footrests for various-size sailors
Plenty of additional cockpit space for an instructor or coach
Twin joysticks for steering from the centreline or either of the twin seats
Manual joystick or sip/puff steering
Electronic mainsheet control
Battery and electronic control box fitted in aft locker – removable
Brings all key sheets and control lines within reach of seated sailors
Adjustable height and reach for various sizes of sailors

For a quote or for more information, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected]

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Kenneth Rumball

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Kenny Rumball is the Principal of the Irish National Sailing School in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. He is a multi dinghy champion and offshore sailor. In 2018 he was awarded the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Seamanship Trophy for a Man Overboard Rescue in the Round Ireland Race. In May 2020 he embarked on a mixed offshore doublehanded keelboat campaign with Pamela Lee.

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History of the INSS

Set up by Alistair Rumball in 1978, the sailing school had very humble beginnings, with the original clubhouse situated on the first floor of what is now a charity shop on Dun Laoghaire's main street. Through the late 1970s and 1980s, the business began to establish a foothold, and Alistair's late brother Arthur set up the chandler Viking Marine during this period, which he ran until selling on to its present owners in 1999.

In 1991, the Irish National Sailing School relocated to its current premises at the foot of the West Pier. Throughout the 1990s the business continued to build on its reputation and became the training institution of choice for budding sailors. The 2000s saw the business break barriers - firstly by introducing more people to the water than any other organisation, and secondly pioneering low-cost course fees, thereby rubbishing the assertion that sailing is an expensive sport.

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