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Sailing for everybody, an Australian snapshot Sailability Tin Can Bay by Raewyn Oliver
Raewyn Oliver is past secretary for the Tin Can Bay Sailability for 5 years and involved in TCB for 7 years. Previously, Raewyn and her husband Paul lived in Bundaberg and were also committee members for Bundaberg Sailability. Raewyn has always had an interest in writing as well as reading and is in charge of the TCB Writers' Club which has published one collection of our short stories, and Raewyn is about to publish her own collection. Raewyn is current secretary for both the TCB Yacht Club and the local Mens' Shed.
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ailability Tin Can Bay has been operating for almost 11 years. Sailability as an organisation is known world-wide as a means to give different types of recreation to those who are disabled or disadvantaged in some way. The Tin Can Bay (TCB) group was first mooted when a group of yachties were enjoying a Sunday sherbet at the Yacht Club, as they included some very enterprising folk, they got onto the job immediately, and five months later the club was a reality. Some of that group are still involved and one is the current Commodore of the Yacht Club. The sailors come from some great distances; Hervey Bay (2 hours north), Gympie (55 mins west), Maryborough (1.5 hours west), and also some
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