Peg Hawkins has retired as Assistant to the Vice President, Arthur O’Neill, at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, MA USA.  In the course of her 16 years with the company she coordinated the SailBlind Program, which has participated in all the World Blind Sailing Championships held to date; traveling, as Team Manager, to Great Britain, Miami, Fl, Italy, Newport, RI, and New Zealand.  Peg has also served as Treasurer of Blind Sailing International since March, 2009, a role which will be passed to Danette Davis of Team USA California.  Although Peg expects to stay involved with blind sailing, she will be spending time with her 6 children and 10 grandchildren, enjoying the beach and her garden, and doing some travelling.

Danette is the director of Marin Sailing School’s program for the blind, providing blind and visually impaired persons the opportunity to learn the fundamental skills of sailing and the basic principles of seamanship. She is also the sighted crew on California One, Marin Sailing School’s blind sailing racing team, which participated in the 2008, 2009, and 2010 United States Blind Sailing Championships in Newport, Rhode Island, and the 2009 World Blind Sailing Championships in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Danette can be contacted at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Many thanks to Peg for her committed Service to Blind Sailing. I am sure Danette will carry on the good work.