UKSA Celebrates partnership with Even Keel Project

UKSA, officially launched its partnership with the Even Keel Project today (Friday 9^th April). UKSA has been selected as the UK base for the project, and through its training facilities and highly-qualified instructors will make sailing more accessible to hundreds of people with a physical disability.

At today’s open day, held at UKSA in Cowes, Even Keel, UKSA and title sponsor Artemis Investment Management presented an overview of the project to-date, as well as outlined plans for 2010. The Even Keel project operates six Artemis 20 racing keel boats, which are based at UKSA and adapted for teaching, training and racing by both disabled and able-bodied sailors.

This launch also heralds the start of the project’s ‘Try Sailing’ season, which starts on Thursday 15^th April and has been created for disabled groups and individuals who would like to try sailing in a performance keel boat. UKSA is currently talking bookings for Thursday, Friday and Saturday sessions, with promising individuals also having the chance to compete in the Artemis Even Keel Challenge at Cowes Week.

Simon Davies, Director of Youth Development at UKSA, commented: “We are absolutely delighted to be getting involved in this project and to have been selected as Even Keel’s UK base. Sailing is one of only a few sports where having a physical disability does not have to be a disadvantage. We are delighted to have been able to offer hundreds of sailors access to the water at UKSA through our adaptive sailing programme and that this project will allow us to help hundreds more.” 

for more information on the project visit http://www.theevenkeel.com