News

24/06/2014

Sea Cadets, the UK's largest nautical youth charity, are joining forces with UKSA (UK Sail Academy), a leading maritime youth  development charity to offer life changing training to 14,000 young people across the UK. Working together Sea Cadets can access work experience, courses, qualifications and careers in yachting and watersports with UKSA.

The partnership enables Sea Cadets to benefit from 100% funded BTEC courses in watersports, week long taster courses in watersports, and super yacht industries, plus three month watersports instructor courses in dinghy sailing, windsurfing and kayaking. The partnership also enables UKSA to use Sea Cadets training centres and boat stations to broaden their nationwide youth development programme to reach out to more young people.

Read more here.

24/06/2014

After an excellent day at Sheppey on Sunday I headed south to Woking unit to take part in their Sail the UK event with them! On the way, I represented the Corps at the memorial service for Captain Andrew Thomson CBE RN who sadly died last week, he was Captain Sea Cadets from 1985 to 1992.

On arrival at Woking it was clear that the wind was going to be a lot gentler than on Sunday, but this didn't deter an intrepid team who manned two Picos and a Bosun on the lake, conveniently located near Woking Sea Cadets' new unit.  It was hard work in the very light winds, that sometimes died completely and it took us an hour to do a mile each, but it was a beautiful evening and everyone enjoyed themselves, despite the relatively modest distance covered. Thank you to RMC Corporal Zoe for captaining the Bosun I was sailing in.

23/06/2014

On Sunday 22 June, Captain Sea Cadets, Captain Jon Holloway RN, spent the day at the Isle of Sheppey Sailing Club to sail with Sea Cadets across the Thames estuary to Southend and back, as part of Sail the UK. They sailed 14 miles with a flotilla of four picos, one bosun and vago including a yacht and two safety vessels. One the way they spotted an American ship that sank during the Second World War. However, the weather conditions proved too much for the picos and so they made the sensible decision to turn back!

The Captain had a terrific day with cadets and is looking forward to his next stop at Woking Sea Cadets. Keep up to date with Sail the UK here.

23/06/2014

Sea Cadets is proud to support Seafarers Awareness Week (21 – 29 June) to promote the UK’s reliance on seafarers supplying essential food, fuel and goods, keeping shipping lanes open and protecting the UK’s interests at home and abroad. Half the food eaten in the UK is imported and, of this, 95% comes by ship (a fact known by only two per cent of the public, according to a recent survey). Yet despite this, a quarter of us (27%) assume the bulk of our food comes by air and one in five of us (20%) think it comes by road! The top food Brits can't live without is the potato - with almost half of those surveyed (43%) saying it's their favourite food we import.

19/06/2014

Sea Cadets in Haringey met Team GB athletes when they helped present a medal at the 2014 ICF Canoe Slalom. They spent Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June at the Lee Valley White Water Rafting Centre in Broxbourne where Britain's own canoeists were in action. The 12 to 17-year-olds were invited by the British Canoeing Union to assist with the medal bearing and flag raising on Saturday afternoon. Officer in charge Stuart Jackson said: "They loved it. It is sometimes hard to get volunteers at the weekend but they all jumped at the chance. They were in awe of the Team GB canoeists and just of being at the Olympic venue."