The talking’s done, the challenge begins! Yes Shipmates it’s time to fly and time to run.  Your plucky crew have been hard at it, training (that should read talking), packing, booking in and menu planning,  we fly to Mallorca on Saturday ready to play our part in the Mallorca 400. Meanwhile young James Barlow has not only […]

Calling All Visually Impaired young Adults: Join us now for some Amazing Summer Sailing – no experience required !!! Are you visually impaired and between 18 and 25 years old? If so, we have a great opportunity for you to sail with us in August in the fantastic sailing region of the South Coast of […]

Ahoy Shipmates, As winter draws near, it’s time to think about sailing for 2025. Here are our plans so far. To make it all happen, we need you to tell us if you want to participate in all of it, some of it, or none of it. Yes folks, we do need your answers! We […]

Notice of the Annual General Meeting for the Visually Impaired Sailing Association. Date: 18th November 2024,    Time: 1900 Location: Virtual via Teams. Agenda: Welcome and introductions.                     Chair. Apologies for absence.                              Trustee Annual Report.      […]

Ahoy Shipmates, You’ll know the sad news of Lofty’s passing and will, like us all, miss his large, loud, and laughing presence during this year’s sailing season and beyond. A number of Visa-gb folk attended the celebration of Lofty’s life organised by his family.  It would be wrong to call it a fun event but we […]

Exciting news, we have received a grant from the Powell Family Foundation which means we are running a special sailing event for 18 to 25 year olds in August, these are the details: Location: Chatham, Elite Sailing, Chatham Maritime Marina, Leviathan Way, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4LP. We have charted a yacht for nine days, the […]

Marvellous Milford made possible thanks to support from the Thomas Pocklington Trust.  Travelling on a Sunday often has it’s challenges, especially following two days of strikes on the railways.  Our intrepid crew had set off from Preston, Plymouth, Newbury, Gloucestershire and Milford Haven.  Lloyd had the greatest challenge with cancelled trains, no assistance and a […]

VI Sailing with Visa GB, a report by Anita Davies: We are very grateful to both VISA GB and the Whirlwind Trust for giving us the opportunity to sail from Milford Haven.  It was an amazing experience for the three members of the visually impaired crew who had a small amount of experience in sailing. […]

Metro – Visa-gb trip from Cowes to Southampton Quay Metro Blind Sport and Visa-gb teamed up for a four days sailing trip between Cowes and Southampton Quay from 6 July to 10 July 2023  Day 1 started with four visually impaired crew (Gareth Dawson, Mihayl Iliev, Ollie Cousins and Anil Kanani) travelling to Cowes; three […]

Visa-gb member, Karen Wye,  has plenty of experience working with the spoken word.  Karen has a show on local radio and is now making Podcasts for us.  This is the second one and its a fascinating approach as Karen gives over the airways to fellow sailor and top therapist, Emelye Jessica Purser.  Make some time, […]