A trio of blind and visually-impaired sailors from the UK has won the Blind Match Racing World Championship 2018. The Blind Match Racing Worlds – hosted for the first time in the UK by the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club – was won by Great Britain’s Sharon Grennan, a completely blind sailor, and her visually-impaired crew: Liam Cattermole and Lucy Hodges MBE. Grennan’s GBR1 team remained undefeated in all of their 13 races over five days of close, competitive racing on the

HRH The Princess Royal – Patron of the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club – watched a semi-final race between GBR1 and USA before spending time talking with competitors, race officials and event volunteers at Rhu Marina. Team USA Skipper Walter T. Raineri (pictured above) said: “There were many highlights of my first trip to Scotland to compete in the 2018 Blind Match Racing World Championships. “Not only was I successful in skippering my team to the Bronze medal at the compet