After this initial project is developed and tested, funding may be sought in the future to develop a larger and more sophisticated vessel. However, without a pilot project, with a majority of funding coming from an interested individual, such a project would not be possible to contemplate.
There are great possibilities for publicity generation through the local and national media of a project with such a positive visual potential – such as taking disabled children who have been in the news out for a sail, or being involved with the “Make A Wish Foundation”. Such publicity of this pilot project could lead to greater funding generation oportunities to allow development of the next generation of yachts.
If this purely volunteer project is the success that overseas commercial operators have achieved, then some commercial operators may make similar accessible craft for sale, charter or rent, and hence make access to sailing in such expensive craft (a commercial craft would cost over $200,000 to build to a standard required for rental or charter due to strict regulations) possible.
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