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The Wheelchair specifications:

• 2 x 4 Pole heavy duty 24 volt motors attached to their own sealed gearboxes.
• 5 speed remote joystick - fully programmable.
• Stainless steel frame and components
• 2 x 12 volt sealed gel batteries
• Patented Roleez Baloon wheels which are low pressure tyres made out of
  tough, puncture resistant polyurethane plastic.

• Fully sealed waterproof seat and sea breeze waterproof back upholstery
• Swing away armrests

Options include:

* Push handles
* Rear anti-tip bar
* Rear anti-tip wheel
* Calf strap
* Seat belt
* Seat pouch or back pack
* Safety flag
* Drink bottle/holder
* Fishing rod holder

The History

Determination wins beach walk for family!

Dave McNaught is determined to take his family for a stroll on the beach. The fact that his normal wheel chair, even with a lot of muscle power and has found it very difficult to access the beach independently: however this has not deterred him.

He has taken an idea from America, done some redesign and built his own all-terrain motorised wheelchair that he can fully operate himself.

Dave was partially paralysed in a swimming accident when he was 20. He had a passion for golf at the time which hasn't lessened in the 26 years since.

However, he has only played golf twice in the last 26 years - and that was from leaning on the back of his manual wheelchair to play his stroke and then getting back in his wheelchair and pushing himself around the course.

He is married with three children and has also missed countless opportunities to have a surf or take his family for a stroll on the beach due to being wheelchair bound.

"If I want to try and get on the beach, I have to rely on asking the lifesavers if they could push me through the sand to the beach and then I have to signal them again from the water to bring the wheelchair down and push me back up the beach.

"The last time I asked them, they had to turn me and the wheelchair around, tilt me back and drag me backwards through the sand to make it.

"They were very helpful about it but obviously it is not an easy thing to do," Dave said.

"Another time they let me sit on the side of their four-wheel surf patrol bike but that has since been banned due to safety regulations".

"It is a very big thing, then, for me and the family to get to the beach as a family and most of the time it doesn't happen".

"That unfulfilled need, and the fact that I got a request from a paralysed friend who was wanting to buy a motorised wheelchair that could work on sand or a golf course, drove me to work on manufacturing my own motorised wheelchair".

"When I had my accident, I didn't receive any payout and couldn't afford a wheelchair. So I did a welding course and built up other skills and so built my own. That developed into a business and I have been self-employed for 11 years manufacturing wheelchairs and specialising in sporting wheelchairs for the active disabled so I had a running start on pulling it off ".

"My friend was thinking of importing one from America but it was going to be a very expensive proposition for him".

"I also found, after studying the chair, that I felt I could do a better design and build a stronger and more durable chair".

"I have now built my first beach chair and shown it to a few people in the wheelchair industry and have been told it is the best chair they have ever seen".

"The chair has two 12volt batteries, two motors, gearboxes and a controller. I also fitted it with four special polyrubber tyres for beach work. They are 49cm tryes at the back and 30cm ones at the front".

"The stainless steel is very strong and can handle both sea and fresh water".

"I am very excited by the chair and I am sure it will open up fantastic opportunities, not only for the wheel-chair bound but those suffering heart problems, stroke victims and the aged and infirm".

"For the active disabled, it will open up fishing, camping and boating possibilities besides beach and golf; activities that are largely totally prohibited from them currently".

Dave is looking at forming partnerships with government and community to manufacture more of his chairs and enabling more disabled to enjoy outdoor activities again.

"I am approaching the Federal and State governments and Local Government seeking sponsorship to make the chairs and have them available for the disabled at surf clubs and golf clubs throughout Queensland and nationally," Dave said.

"I am also approaching surf and golf clubs and church and community service groups to see if they can help with the manufacturing and purchase costs".

"The beach chair will also have great positive benefits economically as the wheel-chair bound make up a significant percentage of Australia's population. If many of these can become more active, it will have benefits for our economy and for tourism".

"Hopefully we can see a great surge of interest in these motorised wheelchairs, not only from the point of view of equity and access for the disabled but also just for the sheer enjoyment of seeing the disabled do more normal things with their families," he said.