Watch: Inclusive Adventures Cruising Gulf Intercoastal Waterway between Pensacola and Panama City
2nd Engineer - Temporary / Seasonal - United States
Inclusive Adventures is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit serving all with a design focus on Mobility Impaired Wheelchair Users including Disabled Youth, Wounded Veterans, and Elderly.
Possibilities II was just moved from Chicago to downtown Fort Myers, Florida with everything in walking and rolling distance. She is a 1995 75 ft Darling motor yacht. Kind of like an aluminum Hatteras sportfish. We are doing a complete refit with all new electrical system including solar and 30 KW of Lifepo4 batteries (75%). Currently adding new sponsored 48v DC Vetus Maxwell Windlass and 250 ft of half inch Peerless ACCO anchor chain with a new anchor coming soon. We need help with aluminum welding, laying hardwood flooring, ceiling material, carpentry, and installing diesel polishing system and other mechanical improvements. We also added new nema 2000 Network which we need to finish with displays.
If you'd like to learn from a master, or are yourself a master and would love to work with a skilled colleague we want to hear from you! Also if you are local in Southwest Florida
Possibilities is a 1979 62' Pluckebaum Aluminum Motoryacht with a level-deck floorplan, and 30"+ wide doorways making it ideal for modification for wheelchair accessibility. She has twin 340 Hp Cummings diesels, 20kw diesel generators, and is nearly completely refit over past 3 years. We need to do a few finishing touches and start doing events on Charlotte Harbor out of Punta Gorda Florida
If you are skilled with tools, creative problem solving, are willing to learn to help handle lines, and able to work as a team/take direction, we need your help! Please note your skills/experience and hobbies/interests?
Possibilities has new inclusive joystick controls that also work for someone with mobility impairments to Captain her which we will be proving. These can be disengaged in 15-30 seconds and reverted to her traditional mechanical controls (where you come in). She is off-grid capable with a new 3kw solar hardtop, Lifepo4 Batteries, watermaker. Other various tasks that include carpentry, finishing some DC electrical, diesel engine maintenance. She will be pioneering INCLUSIVE adventure trips from Florida to Bahamas and up East Coast for adventurous of all abilities. She has completed 50% of America's Great Loop.
This is a volunteer position of 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months with opportunities to return depending on your goals and skills are possible. Volunteers receive room and board while living, learning, and working together on-board (Excluding alcohol and shore-based entertainment) Open to International persons with B1/B2 VISA or a VISA Waiver program / ESTA. At least 1 month is strongly encouraged, preferably 3 months. More time/availability is great.
We are also working on a unique, straightforward fully Inclusive, 26' off-grid Class C RV that is fully capable of being operated from a wheelchair. Earn time using her yourself with one or two family or friends!
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About Inclusive Adventures - Adventures are about the journey, not the destination.
We provide Life Changing Experiences for Uniquely Abled, Wheelchair Users and Non-Wheelers, Young @ Heart, and @ Risk Youth! Created by the Disabled for the Disabled ... or as we prefer ... by the Uniquely Able for the Differently Able.
Adventure offers us a freedom only achieved through overcoming challenges, and our fears. This newfound freedom of thought offers perspective throughout life, literally and measurably changing our lives as we add new skills while developing independence.
The journey itself contributes to every individual's personal development. You acquire new qualities, you become spiritually rich as you learn about culture, traditions, and history of various people living in other places and times. You begin to understand the why. This leads to an inclusive perspective on the ultimate similarities in all people, their goals, desires, and in that realization, differences become trivial details.
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You should have a lust for adventure and open-minded, easy-going personality, with a desire to help others and improve the world. I have been designing and implementing modifications to the vessel to make it 100% wheelchair friendly (75% complete). I am a quadriplegic man who uses an electric power wheelchair after forced landing plane crash 15 years ago due to engine failure after takeoff. I have been designing and creating solutions to empower mobility impaired individuals through greater independence for the last 15 years including working with Veterans Administration and other orgs throughout the country.
Abuse of anything such as alcohol or drugs will not be tolerated.
Our Website www.inclusiveadventures.org
Text or WhatsApp +1-763-742-0612
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Wish you success
It's a phenomenal project. Good job.
12th May 2022