After seven months since their removal, the new windows were installed today and look great. You can see the new deck paint job (white gloss with grey decktread), reattached toerails, stanchions and safety wires.
Next job is applying the name graphics I designed.
I had a hang gliding accident in 1977 that left me a quadriplegic from a C5-C6 complete spinal injury.
Although I returned to snow skiing, water skiing, and even went gliding and up in a tandem hang glider again.
Now my sport is sailing, coming second in the World championship in Italy in 2005, 4th in 2004 Worlds and twice Australian Champion in 2005 & 2007.
I have found that people's curiosity is often much stronger than their reservations about talking to a person with a disability. This can be a very positive 'ice breaker' whereby a person's mobility equipment can be a positive aspect to socialisation and hence acceptance, when design effort is used to make that equipment more 'funky', attractive and technologically interesting.
Most people see mobility equipment first and then the person. We hope to make the equipment that is less obvious such that, the person is visually dominant while their required equipment becomes less dominating and attractive. There is also the aspect of having people so interested in the technology that they forget about any preconceptions about people with a disability and ask about the gear they use.
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