The provision of the Lough Ree Access For All boat will provide an adapted integrated water based experience for people with disabilities from all over Ireland for the very first time – allowing access for up to 3 wheelchair users at the same time.
Access to the boat is via the bow of the vessel which lowers in a style akin to a small car ferry – thereby allowing the passengers to “roll-on” and “roll-off” in their own manner and without assistance needed from anybody else. The boat is the ONLY licenced vessel of its kind in Britain or Ireland for passenger travel of this nature and will provide daily sailings for people with disability from throughout Roscommon, Longford Westmeath and throughout the country and abroad – offering activities such as angling, sightseeing and other excursions in all weather’s to HSE service users from all over the country.
