Answer: When it’s a disabled sailing record
It may come as a surprise to some, but the inspirational sailing achievements by the likes of British quadriplegic sailor Hilary Lister, blind sailor Aly Gunn or paraplegic Alan Grace are rewarded with little more than column inches in the press. Despite headlines like “sailing into the record books†which featured after my sail around Great Britain in 2007, there is no formal recording of these events other than the ensuing publicity, and most of that is restricted to the marine press. The WSSRC (World Speed Sailing Record Council), official keepers of sailing records, specifically exclude disability as … Details