David Pescud is an Australian skipper with severe dyslexia and a founding member of the Sailors with disABILITIES programme, which opens up sailing to people with disabilities.
In 2003 he skippered the monohull Kaz with a crew made up entirely of disabled sailors. Leaving Sydney on 25 May 2003, they completed the around-Australia course (about 6,512 miles) in 37 days, 1 hour and 23 minutes, almost 6 days 18 hours inside the previous record of 43 days 19 hours set in 1999 by Jeremy Pearce and Kanga Birtles. It was the first disabled crew to hold this record.
