Club Marine Insurance

Australia's largest pleasure craft insurance provider.

Fine Wines from Brokenwood

Keep your eye on this website for special deals brought to you by SWD and BROKENWOOD.

GKI Resort P/L (Tower Holdings)

GKI Resort Pty Ltd are aiming to create a world class eco-tourism resort on the beautiful Great Keppel Island. The project is aiming to deliver the most environmentally sustainable eco-tourism resort in Australia and to be a leader in global environmental tourism. GKI Resort Pty Ltd are currently undergoing an extensive Environmental Impact Statement process to ensure that the resort addresses every aspect of environmental sustainability.

HORDERN HOUSE Rare books - Manuscripts - Paintings - Prints

Antiquarian book dealers specialising in: Voyages and exploration, Pacific colour-plate books and natural history, children's literature, early Australian paintings and voyage art, historical maps and prints, and Australiana.

Derek McDonnell is one of the directors and founding partners of Hordern House, the Sydney rare book and manuscript dealers who are supporters of SWD.

He explains: "I see a real fit between our business and SWD -- a surprising one perhaps, but since we specialise in rare books about voyages and discovery, and of course about Australia, sailing and ocean passages are a natural continuation of what started with Cook, and with Columbus and Vasco da Gama and all the others before him. For me the very significant fact that SWD competes in the real world, and not only in a disabled milieu, makes it even more attractive. Their results in the Sydney-Hobart are of course the more glamorous end of it, but as a Sydney-sider and a sailor myself, to see that the organisation gets some 3000 disabled children onto the water every year as well as undertaking this competitive sailing is quite remarkable. We are very happy to be sponsors of this splendid organisation and hope that we may be able to introduce some other supporters."

Jeppensen

Thank you to Jeppesen Marine.

Pacific Sailing School

Pacific Sailing School based at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia provide sail training to the world respected RYA Yachtmaster qualification.

RFD Australia P/L

RFD is proud to be a supporter of SWD. RFD MD Mark Barker is an active sailor at the CYCA, the same club where the SWD boat is berthed.

Prior to becoming involved as a sponsor, Mark personally spent time on the SWD boat and helped out as a crewman on several occasions.

"Having experienced the wonderful work of the SWD people, in particular the compassionate and thoughtful way that they work with the disabled sailors, I was very comfortable for RFD to move forward and become involved as a sponsor."

Safety is an integral aspect of SWD. RFD recognised that due to their disabilities, both adults and children need a heightened level of awareness and the appropriate RFD equipment to ensure their personal safety.

RFD willingly has become a supporter and has donated an extensive range of RFD safety equipment.

IMAGE Professional Photography

Our thanks go to Howard Wright of IMAGE Professional Photography for the use of his photos on our website.  Contact Howard on 02 9542 7312  or 0414 963 565 and  http://www.imagephoto.com.au/ for more.

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 Invisible Communications

SAFETY FIRST FOR SAILORS WITH DISABILITIES AND STANDARD HORIZON RADIOS  

Sailors With disAbilites has purchased new handheld VHF marine radios to provide vital communications in the event of an emergency.  SWD has chosen the Standard Horizon HX280, which is waterproof, has a high capacity battery, and recharges on board the boat or on shore.

All Standard Horizon marine radios come with a three year warranty. SWD sourced the radios from Invisible Communications, an authorized distributor.

The VHF radios will increase safety on both of the SWD boats, not only by providing a backup radio if the boat’s main radio was to fail, but also providing essential communications should the crew have to abandon ship.

Another safety feature opted for was an AA alkaline battery pack, allowing fresh batteries to be used should the radio run out of charge after days on a liferaft.

www.invisiblecommunications.com.au