Inspiring a global sailing community to achieve the ultimate ambition: reinstatement to the Paralympic Games

激励全球帆船界实现终极目标：重返残奥会

As CEO of Sailability HK, Kay has seen the power of sailing to unite and inspire a diverse community. The program has grown from a fleet of two vessels to 40, with Kay and Mike donating the first two themselves, and given access to sailing to more than 28,000 participants.

作为Sailability HK的首席执行官，Kay看到了帆船运动团结和激励多元化社区的力量。该计划已从两艘船只发展到40艘，凯和迈克自己捐赠了前两艘船只，并为28000多名参与者提供了航行机会。

Sailability HK has achieved success on the water, too, winning a bronze medal at the Asian Para Games in 2014 and hosting events such as the first World Sailing Para Development Programme in 2017 and the Southeast Asian Para Championships in 2018 and 2024.

Sailability HK在赛场上也取得了成功，在2014年的亚洲残疾人运动会上获得铜牌，并在2017年举办了首届世界帆船残疾人发展计划，在2018年和2024年举办了东南亚残疾人锦标赛。

Kay began sailing with Mike, first on Merlin Rockets in the UK and later joining Hebe Haven Yacht Club after moving to Hong Kong. She was working at the Nesbitt Centre, a charitable organisation which provides educational, training and vocational programmes for young adults with special needs, when she and Mike decided to start Sailability.

Kay开始和迈克一起航行，先是在英国的梅林火箭队，后来搬到香港后加入了Hebe Haven游艇俱乐部。当她和迈克决定创办Sailability时，她正在Nesbitt中心工作，这是一个为有特殊需要的年轻人提供教育、培训和职业课程的慈善组织。

She says, “When we held our first training day, we had lots of people come along. We hired some wheelchairs from a local organisation here and then we set up our own committee, and we started from there. How did we choose our first sailors?

她说：“当我们举行第一天的训练时，有很多人来了。我们从当地的一个组织那里租了一些轮椅，然后我们成立了自己的委员会，从那里开始。我们是如何选择第一批水手的？

“We took 12 of my students down to Hebe Haven Yacht Club, and went out on the committee boat and transferred our potential sailors to a safety boat and then on to a dinghy. From that 12, we chose four, and every Monday, which was a sports day, they would go to the sailing club and learn to sail.

“我们带着12名学生去了Hebe Haven游艇俱乐部，乘坐委员会的船，将我们潜在的水手转移到安全船上，然后再转移到小艇上。从那12人中，我们选择了4人，每个星期一，也就是运动日，他们都会去帆船俱乐部学习帆船。

“Now, when we have people from various rehabilitation services in Hong Kong, who come along with Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, we ask our para sailors to show them just how they rig the boats they will be sailing in, asking for support if needed, and also how they have learned the fundamentals of sailing, along. Following this set up each of the organisation’s staff went out on the water with a Para Sailor at the helm showing the benefits of sailing and how it can also aid rehabilitation too.”

“现在，当我们有来自香港各个康复服务机构的人员与职业治疗师和物理治疗师一起来时，我们会要求我们的残疾人水手向他们展示如何操纵他们将要航行的帆船，在需要时寻求支持，以及他们如何学习帆船的基本知识。在这样的安排之后，该组织的每个员工都在一名残疾人水手的带领下出海，展示帆船的好处以及帆船如何有助于康复。”

This experience of seeing how sailing can impact and change lives will be at the forefront of Kay’s ambitions for the Para Sailing Committee, particularly with Paralympic reinstatement high on the agenda.

这种看到帆船运动如何影响和改变生活的经历将是凯对残疾人帆船委员会雄心的首要目标，特别是在残奥会重新被提上日程的情况下。

“I always say ‘seeing is believing’ and at Sailability HK we have been really open to people coming along to see what we do and encouraging the sailors to tell their stories, which is really, really important. And it’s not just the life changes for the sailor. It’s also their families and having the opportunity to educate and encourage more people within the yacht club to see the abilities of those with various life challenges,” Kay adds.

Kay补充道：“我总是说‘眼见为实’，在Sailability HK，我们一直对人们敞开心扉，让他们看看我们做了什么，并鼓励水手们讲述他们的故事，这真的非常重要。这不仅仅是水手生活的改变。这也是他们的家人，有机会教育和鼓励游艇俱乐部中更多的人看到那些面临各种生活挑战的人的能力。”

Para Inclusive Sailing will be aiming to build on the positive progress, inspire more people around the world to discover the sport and ultimately reclaim its place at the Paralympic Games. The impressive results achieved by Sailability HK shows how important the sport can be to people within the community and future generations of Para Inclusive Sailors will be hoping to have the opportunity to represent their nation at the highest level from 2032.

残疾人包容性帆船运动的目标是在积极进展的基础上，激励世界各地更多的人发现这项运动，并最终在残奥会上夺回一席之地。Sailability HK取得的令人印象深刻的成绩表明了这项运动对社区内的人们有多么重要，未来几代残疾人包容性水手将希望从2032年开始有机会代表他们的国家达到最高水平。