Category: Water
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Scuba – Sharm El-Sheikh
Sharm el Sheikh is a resort town on the Egyptian Sinai peninsula. It’s a great place to dive the Red Sea. We stayed at the Camel Dive Hotel.
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Sailing – Ghana
I think my friend Bill and I are two of the very few people in wheelchairs that sailed on a Chinese Junk in Africa. This ship has an interesting story.
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Scuba Diving
Bonaire. That’s me in my new yellow, custom made wetsuit. Now when they leave me behind they can’t claim they just didn’t see me. – Visibility was rather poor compared to the first time I was here – 120 foot visibility then. – Belize. In addition to seeing all the beautiful fish and coral, we…
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Sailing – Antigua
A Wheelchair Accessible Square-rigger. This is the Tenacious, under full sail. This photo was taken by the ship’s photographer, Max. Welcome to Antigua and Barbuda. This was my second voyage on the Tenacious. You can see the Tenacious docked just left of center, just lower than center.
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Sailing – Australia
My First Tall-Ship Encounter. She is a 30 meter, single rigged top gallant brigantine with seven fore-aft sails and three square sails. I learned a lesson about wheelchairs that tip easily and ships that pitch, yawl, roll or otherwise move in three dimensions. Years later, I had a friend make me some sea-legs that attach…
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Sailing – UK
Sailing in the Inventure 2000 designed by Trevor – a 60 feet wheelchair accessible sailboat that uses airfoil wing propulsion system
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Sailing – Tenacious
A Wheelchair Accessible Square-rigger. This is the Tenacious, under full sail. This photo was taken by our Boson’s mate, Max. Captain John Fisher is showing me how to use the sextant for navigation. – Our skipper is very bright, patient, competent and an accomplished sailor.