About Disabled Sailors Association

The Charity was set up by seriously disabled wheelchair user Mike Wood in 1993 to provide training, rehabilitation, motivation, a sense of pride, achievement and dignity for all types of disabled people, especially those refused by other organisations because they were difficult or expensive to cater for.

Sailing in a well-designed boat is a superb sport/leisure activity for disabled people but for almost all mobility impaired people, the two DSA yachts are the only choice for them anywhere in the world. The DSA designed and built the superb, wheelchair-accessible yachts to fill the need its research had discovered in South East England.

For nearly 25 years the yachts have run to nearly full capacity, providing some 2000 sailing places a year for disabled people. (Our dinghies provide even more places).

Both the RoRo (roll on roll off) yachts can be sailed and lived on by a person in a wheelchair. Disabled people can do as much or as little as they wish on the yachts, as all controls, heads and showers, berths and galley facilities are all fully accessible.

Disabled Sailors Association offers regular voyages from these start areas: