Christophe Sorenti will work side to side with sailing4handicaps during his mission.

Christophe has already begun to document the preparations phases of the travel and will be on our side also for  the upcoming tasks. His amazing pictures are constantly published online on his website: http://www.csorenti.com as well as on our: www.sailing4handicaps.de

The pictures published till now are marvelous!!!.

We are looking forward to work with Christophe. His professionalism and dedication are a great resource for our club.

Christophe Sorenti

http://www.csorenti.com/

Safety is a key word when it comes to perform a circumnavigation. For this reason, during the preparation phase of the catamaran Imagine, sailing4handicaps got in touch with Armare, an italian brand world leader in the production of ropes. The brand, through the active person of Marcello D’Agostini, has given direct support to the project.

After checking all the ropes on board, which are 10 years old, Marcello D’Agostini has decided to change all of them in order to allow Imagine to be able to sail in completely safety around the world and help in this way people in need.

Armare has given a concret, vaste and complete support, which goes over the simple donation of ropes, giving to the crew important suggestions regarding the praparation of the boat.

sailing4handicaps is proud to present this collaboration and to have on board high quality and unique ropes which make of Imagine a safer mean to complete its helping mission.

A look at the company

“Armare” means “to provide a ship with all it needs to navigate” or “to equip a sailing vessel”.
 So, we find the vision of the company in the meaning of the name, extended to what the company can now offer to its customers.

 In 2012 Armare celebrated 20 years of its foundation. It is the continuation of a long family tradition, whose knowledge has been handed on from father to son. Over two hundred years of history in the production of ropes, set Armare among the leading companies in the sector of nautical ropes, offering a comprehensive range of technologically advanced products.

 Armare designs, manufactures and tests its products in Italy, in San Giorgio di Nogaro (Udine) – 4,000 m2 of twisting, stranding, braiding, special treatments, splicing, testing and hand finishing. The high level of the development of human resources, in the areas of production, technical research, administration, marketing and sales, allows the company to offer a product that the market recognizes as a leader within the highest sectors. One of the hallmarks of Armare, is the ability to personalise the already wide range of products, with custom finishes .
Armare products are currently distributed in Italy by some 200 highly specialized shipchandlers, covering the entire national territory.

The vocation for internationality has led Armare to reach all the main European and overseas markets.
 Listening to the needs of its customers, and speaking to people who contact the company, allows Armare to meet expectations and demands, in the pursuit of constant improvement of the quality of the business. Growth is attained through respect of company values, identified in the way of being and acting, and is reflected in business relationships.

The wide range of Armare products includes technical solutions for both sailing and motor boats, but also cordage for any industrial application, sport, interior design or commercial fishing. According to the philosophy of Armare, ropes are, in addition to the technical function on vessels, also an integration to enrich them. Ropes play an important role for the safety of boats and of the people who use them. Aesthetics are also important, for the style, prestige and social position of the shipowner. Armare’s main goal is a continuous improvement that arises in the carrying out of its activities: growth occurs when new goals are placed. Armare gives particular attention to market tendencies, and is able to anticipate the preferences of its clients. Thanks to the know-how, the experience and the feedback from skippers and crews, Armare designs and studies new applications, as well as implementing the research on materials that are used to produce the ropes.

www.armare.it

We are really happy to present Yachticon as a great partner of sailing4handicaps.

It made ​​us very happy that Andreas Tegeler, sales manager of the company, hasn’t hesitated long to support us.

He himself has experience with amputees and has been moved from the same spirit which moves sailing4handicaps.

Yachticon will support the club specifically in the construction of osmosis protection, antifouling and with other important supply items which will be very important for the trip.

Yachticon was established in 1982 and is today a leading company internationally which develops and markets innovative products for the care of yachts and caravans.

At the time it started up the main product was initially a solution for disinfecting water – Aqua Clean. The innovative product closed a genuine gap in the market and was the start of our success. Today we at Yachticon are the strong partner when it comes to care in water sports and the caravan market.

With more than 1000 products in our current catalogue we offer an answer to (almost) every challenge with regard to care. At our production site in Germany we develop and market products which are simple to use and highly effective. From anti-yellowing to decorative-strip polishing paste – we are, with our products, a reliable onboard partner and are one of the largest companies in the trade internationally.

In Germany our products are to be found in almost every specialist shop and Yachticon products are also being successfully marketed and used in more than 50 countries in Europe and overseas. At the same time the close contact that we have with our customers is very important to us – at the five major water sports trade fairs and on the telephone we are willing to talk to yacht owners and caravanners at any time.

The winter has been warm. Lots of owners have put their boats in the water earlier than usual, but not the club sailing4handicaps with his Imagine.

There are still things to do on the Lagoon 41, so that we will be ready to build up on board our first prothese on the 21st July during the Travemünder Woche. On the agenda we don’t have only the appointment with the building up of the prostetic, but also the preparetion steps to the circumnavigation are in progress. For example, this winter a new underwater structure was completely rebuilt.

Imagine will get also a new look…All this and much more you will shortly get to know…

In the cold time we haven’t been lazy and we found new partners and supporters who will be soon officially presented.

The boat has been preparred for the new osmosis painting. The grinding work took more or less one week.

Soon will follow the painting of the underwater. Therefore we have a great partner on our side: Yachticon. We will soon inform you also about this collaboration.

For the new painting we had to removel the net…

Here is the workingplace for the  Orthopedic: an individual construction expecially for our boat… we will soon be able to see how it really looks like!

Buchholz-fachinformationsdienst, shortly bfd, supports as a sponsor the international aid project “sailing4handicaps” of the Paralympic Champion Wojtek Czyz. The collaboration is designed for a period of 3 years.

As Wojtek Czyz, at the end of his sport career, brought to life together with his life partner Elena Brambilla “sailing4handicaps”, it was natural for bfd  to support Czyz also in this social action.

The initiative will give handicapped people the possibility to receve a supply of prosthetics and to open for them in this way new perspectives. The specialized crew will work on spot with amputees, build up prosthetics and show them how to apply and  kept these prosthetics in shape for future. On the sailing catamaran “Imagine” have been created all the necessary conditions to allow the crew to manufacture prostheses on board. The necessary funds are raised through donations and sponsorship.

“For us it was not a question to financially support sailing4handicaps”, asserts the company’s founder and current chairman of bfd, Dieter Buchholz.

Another big event for sailing4handicaps is over and again the report is amazing!

During the boot Duesseldorf 2014 we had the chance to present to our supporters, sponsors, to the media and the public the project of our club.

Great has been the support of our sponsors which where present at the boot, Marinepool and FisherPanda, and great has been the answer from the pubblic and industries specialized in the marine sector. All the talks have bring us to keep in contact with future sponsors, supporters and possible ones, all of them really important to complete the complicate puzzle which will let our project to become true.

We have been amazed by the interest gained in the people, not only in the maritime sector, but also about contacts with doctors, associacions and organizations which will  help us in loco once on the way.

To see that sailing4handicaps is able to move hearts, passion and help is already our first victory!

On the 18th January from 13.30 till 14 o’clock and on the 25th January from 11 o’clock till 11.30 we will present the foundation sailing4handicaps on the “Multihall” stage in the Hall 15 of the BOOT 2014.

We are also going to present the project at the Stand of Fischer Panda on the 18th January and on the 25th January, both at 12 0’clock.

If you are gonna visit the BOOT on another day, please don’t esitate to contact us. We will be available all week for every question that you might have.

The BOOT Duesseldorf takes place from the 18th till the 26th January 2014, everyday from 10.00 o’clock till 18.00 0’clock. You can find further infos about the exhibition at the following web site:  www.boot.de

If you want to know more about sailing4handicaps, please visit our website: www.sailing4handicaps.de.

We wish you a safe and pleasant sailing 2014 season and we are looking forward to meet you at one of our events.

Best regards

Wojtek Czyz

President of the foundation

sailing4handicaps e.V.

Kaiserbergring 13
67657 Kaiserslautern

info(at)sailing4handicaps.de

On the occasion of the Nordic Combined World Cup in Schonach, Wiha, a leading manufacturer of hand tools, supported the club with a generous donation in the form of tools.

“This ensures that we can provide orthopedic technician on board with the best tools”, substains the President of the club.

We have been really happy to meet Mr. Willi Hahn and his wife and to be able to thank them personally for their great support.

This family run company from the Black Forest has offered its help immediately and with full entusiasm.

Thank’s Wiha!!!

The company profile:

Today Wiha is a dependable partner for users of precision tools worldwide and has been able to position itself in the market as a driving force for innovation. Active customer management, a corporate philosophy oriented to quality and above all the systematic support of employees are the foundation for the enduring success of the family enterprise.

In this respect Wiha takes advantage of close cooperation with its own manufacturing and sales dependencies and partners within the important economic zones of Europe, the United States and Asia.
The concentration of resources upon those product- and market segments that afford sufficient potential for continual growth make Wiha lastingly flexible with a high level of performance capacity.

www.wiha.com

sailing4handicaps wishes to all the members, sponsors, supporters, friends and sailers a great and successful 2014!!!

It’s amazing how much you all did for us in the past year… we are really grateful and proud! Keep on following us also in this 2014!!!

At the following link you can find a great article about our project: