Kinsale Yacht Club's commitment to promoting inclusiveness in sailing has been rewarded with a win in Wednesday night's (November 29) Cork's Sports Partnership Active Community Award.
As Afloat reported previously, Sailability Kinsale and KYC promoter Donal Hickey were nominated as finalists in the 'active community' section.
The win has been applauded by Kinsale Commodore Matthias Hellstern, who broke the news this morning: "I am delighted to report that KYC Sailability Class won the community awards yesterday evening."
Hellstern said it was "an amazing achievement" and congratulated "all the volunteers who contributed so much to the class to make it such a success".
As regular Afloat readers know, in June, the West Cork club welcomed the Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality and Disability, Anne Rabbitte, to launch its new Sailability fleet of access dinghies and a new Whaly Safety boat.
Sailability Ireland is a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation that encourages wider participation and has provided the resources to purchase specially adapted boats.
For more on KYC Sailability listen to Tom Macsweeney's 2019 podcast here and see photos from June's Sailability launch at KYC by Bob Bateman here
