Recent content by bartantero

By the way, this is the boat, Maris Stella III The picture (sorry for the low quality) was taken last December, during the race close to Xmas. No wind, but fun :)

Re: Sailing ans ASL? This was just great to see! Thank you AL. Unfortunately David is much fuhrer with his troubles. By now he has tracheotomy, and basically the only muscle he can control is eyes'. Where there's a will, there's a way. I really agree with you ;)

Re: Sailing ans ASL? Thanks everybody for support! I feel much better now :) and strong in going through this Thank you penny for sharing your experience with me. I have some question: - did you your husband use a breathing machine on board? - was the machine affected by the boat rocking, or...

hello everybody. Sorry, I posted a question before introducing. Anyway, real name Andrea (male), 46. I'm a friend of David and Silvia. David is affected by ALS. I arrived here, via google, looking for help in realizing a sailing day with David. I was born and live in Rome (Italy) as David does...

Re: Sailing ans ASL? The sailing trip is planned on spring, due to weather conditions and David's cronical lungs' problem. So we have a few time to plan it. We will have a "general trial" before going, using a big platform for David and his chair, on a big truck tyre inner tube, to simulate the...

Hi everybody, My name is Andrea, form Italy (Rome) I hope you can help me, with your advices. My friend David, who has an advanced ASL diagnoses. Since we both are leisure-sailor David wishes to sail once again, and I wish to sail with him. I understand this is quite a fool program, but...