Afetr two and a half years of work, on the 21.07.2014, during the Travemünder Woche, the first prosthesis has been build up on board of the catamaran „Imagine“.

The team of sailing4handicaps had to invent a lot to be able to get to this point.

To make this project to become true, we had to build up a special working table, a big oven and find uncommon solutions.

It was really important to have, one year before the leaving, everything on board, in order to get familiar with the new characteristics of the boat.

Therefor it is important to pay attention to the weight of the boat. Only the additional equipment for the prostheses, infact, increases the weight by at least 300kg.

Finally we have been ready. In front of the media, of our partnerns and sponsors, it has been described step by step the procedure necessary to build up in the future prothesis using only the tolls that you can find on board. The team componentes, Elena Brambilla and Wojtek Czyz (Crew), Christoph Ganter (Orthopedic) and Dr.Kopy (Doctor of the club), have meet in order to realize the project. The focus has been the construction of the shaft. A plastic plate was heated at 200 ° in a convection oven and then placed over the gyps and shaped under vacuum.

The audience was amazed when they saw how the prothesis was formed. This one has then been wear by Wojtek Czyz himself.  For him it is important that the prosthesis has also an quality standars.

In addition, we could proudly announce that the total cost of a prosthesis will be of  200 €  and can be financed through donations.

Following pics from the day.

The night before  Christoph Ganter made the general test. Nothing should have been wrong on the monday. We have to thank his acrobatik work if everything worked during the presentation.

The next morning the tools have been hanged.

Imagine and the crew are ready for the event.

We have been really impressed about the interest rised from the project!

Wojtek Czyz himself weared the first prothese and showed the quality standards of it.

Suddenly after wearing it, he could walk around on the boat without any problem.

While Elena was presenting the new tools on board to the interested pubblic, Wojtek was introducing the new working table for the orthopedic.

Without all these new tools and c0nstructions, it would have never been possible to build up the prothese on board.