OPPORTUNITY - ACCESSIBILITY - DIGNITY
A MODEL PROGRAM FOR THE REST OF THE NATION

Excalibur is a private, non-profit all volunteer, charitable organization dedicated to providing COST FREE adaptive boating and fishing opportunities for disabled and disadvantaged persons. Its goal is to provide FREE and UNLIMITED access to Lake Erie, as well as offer developmental, therapeutic and recreational opportunities for Human Service Agency related programs and their consumers.

Since 1985, many hard working Western New Yorkers have contributed considerable time, effort, services, materials, and goodwill to this end. Great are the numbers of people who have so generously supported this Program, because they realize their need and responsibility to provide for the less fortunate in our community.

Excalibur's broad and diverse base of Supporters have accomplished what many said was impossible. With a lot of patience and hard work, the now retired ADMIRAL P. R. LUCCI, the first of its kind, specially modified wheelchair accessible boat, and the recently decommissioned FRANCIS J. PORDUM has given all manner of disabled and disadvantaged the opportunity to freely enjoy access to a day of boating and fishing on the open waters of our Great Lakes and adjacent waterways. With perseverance against seemingly insurmountable odds, Excalibur has greatly enhanced and benefited the entire Western New York Community.

Seasonally, since 1985, Excalibur has provided the Community with this outstanding service which averages 5,600 hours of actual on the water programming for 2,800 of our most needy neighbors. The Excalibur Program has come a long way since its inception but there still remains a great deal of work to be done. Excalibur needs YOU! People like yourselves, who can volunteer their time and effort to work on various aspects of the Excalibur Program or those who can contribute materials, service, or funds. The Western New York Community can take pride in what they have accomplished ...