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Still, there is no damage estimate or any cause determined in Annapolis Yacht Club’s fire incident on Saturday, said the city officials on Monday. The crew is still cleaning the site and the fire investigators combing through the debris.

The yacht club is looking for a way to rebuild. It was Saturday when blaze tore through the building, charring the 2nd and 3rd floors. The officials of the club told that they are thinking of possible temporary locations for the next 15 to 24 months before they come back here.

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The old Fawcett Boat Supplies property located at 110 Compromise St. has been given as a probable location, even though it would need rehabilitation to get it all set. The incident took place just before the holiday season. At this situation, the club officials told that they would pay their hundred-fifty employees for a minimum of thirty days with probable extensions after that time. The officials also stated that they are looking if they can help their employees to have new jobs – possibly with Yacht Charter Croatia and other yachting companies.

Many businesses have offered space for the Annapolis Yacht Club to use – like Loews Hotel that will host the Commodore’s Holiday Party on Wednesday with the Annapolis Yacht Club staffs. Rod Jabin, the Annapolis Yacht Club Commodore met with top city officials at the City Hall to discuss as how they could get the club as well as its employees on their feet. They have already chalk out the primary details in the conference.

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International Sailing Federation Disabled Sailing Committee told that the still carries expectations of recapturing their spot on Paralympic Games program following Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association presented a motion to have a twenty-third position included at Tokyo 2020.

Their aspirations come in spite of the International Paralympic Committee affirming to the International Sailing Federation in a meeting back in April that the procedure of selecting sports for Tokyo 2020 has officially drawn to a close, all but ending their last hopes.
The International Paralympic Committee preferred to cut the sport from the Olympics in the capital of Japanese in January after exacting it did not fulfill their handbook’s minimum measures for worldwide reach.

This suggests that only team sports regularly and widely practiced in a minimum of twenty-four countries as well as 3 IPC regions will be looked at for inclusion in the Paralympic Games and for individual sports a minimum of thirty-two countries in three IPC regions.
The decision take by the International Paralympic Committee sparked outrage among the sailing people and CPISRA will start a motion at IPC’s General Assembly that will take place on 14th and 15th Nov, to get sailing back on the list.

In order to retrieve its inclusion, the International Sailing Federation introduced a new Paralympic Development Programme that targets to increase engagement levels in disabled sailing and it vows to increase attendance by countries at international programs using Paralympics classes of equipment.