Walt Raineri on Team USA of Blind Sailors who took third place in the 2018 World Championships of Blind Match Racing in the waters off of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, where he met Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, was featured on BBC TV, Scottish TV and BBC Radio Programs, but also won the Bronze medal for Team USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These sailors navigate with sound on the bouys to determine the course, and sound on their boats, to win and to avoid crashing into each other. Listen to the interview to hear how Walt describes it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walt races locally for Team BAADS (Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors<\/a>) in San Francisco \u2013 and is representing the United States in the 2018 Blind Match Racing World Championships in Rhu, Scotland at the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Sail Sport Talk feature with Karen Lile was previously broadcast live to 82 million people in 168 countries and on 200 satellite radios stations in addition to tune in radio, sportsbyline.com and other platforms. For more information on our guests see: http:\/\/www.sailsporttalk.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n For our blind sailors listening in, for the first 14 seconds of the video, there are fast paced visuals of sail boats on the San Francisco Bay. Following our intro, it is audio only. First is a report on SailGP \u2013 and then it rolls into interview with Walt. To skip intro, start at 14 seconds. @SportsByline @SailSportTalk<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Walt recommends checking out Blind Sailing International<\/a> for more information<\/p>\n\n\n\n