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Thanks to an incredibly active year the Sea Cadets have more than enough to celebrate.  The Huddersfield Sea Cadets who meet twice weekly at the TA Centre have accumulated impressive activity figures over the last 12 months.  Cadets have achieved 109 qualifications including, 19 specialisations, 57 boatwork, 4 offshore power boating and 29 proficiencies.  Many of these qualifications are recognised by employers and colleges and are awarded by national bodies such as BTEC, St John Ambulance, RYA, DoE, BCU & British Rowing.  Cadets really are getting something truly beneficial from their fun and challenging experiences in Sea Cadets. 

The Huddersfield Sea Cadets have been awarded a Burgee efficiency standard by the Captain of the Sea Cadets, Captain Jonathan Holloway RN, putting Huddersfield amongst the top 20% of Units in the UK. The attached picture shows some cadets with their awards and the Unit Padre holding his Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Huddersfield Unit entered the district regatta this year. We entered into the open boys class, AC Townley (coxswain) with the crew of OC Young, Cdt's Piccavey, Faulkner and Mays. The crew along with LT Dawson, SLt Sadler, PO Kundi and the cheer leaders AC Hanson-Lunn, OC's Auty and Weavill and Junior cadet Faulkner travelled to Wakefield Unit and after registering the team and nabbing SLt Sadler to drive the towing boat for the day the regatta got under way.

For the 1st race the whole crew where anxious with not knowing exactly what would happen but the training soon took over and they took to the race like a duck to water and got stuck in. Junior Faulkner despite being the only junior section cadet had a go in the towing boat with SLt Sadler and also made up a rowing team with other juniors to have a race. The Huddersfield crew finishing runners up at their 1st attempt should be proud of their effort and take the experience with them into next years competition.

Huddersfield Sea cadets visited HMS Ocean when she was alongside at Sunderland. After an early start to travel to Sunderland to arrive before the ship was open to the public we arrived.

The cadets had a chance to see and handle various weapons including the SA80 Assault Rifle, GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) and Phalanx (The Ships main defence weapon system).There was a cooking demonstration about cooking on a ship and halth eating and two of our cadets, Cadet Stansfield and Cadet Park, assisted the Royal Navy Cooks making a lovely, healthy dish for everyone to try.

All the visiting cadets were talking about their day and generally buzzing about the experience all he way back to Huddersfield despite the 05:30 start.

We would like to thank Capt Betton RN, HMS Ocean and the crew for their hospitality.

14 Cadets and 7 Staff went to SCTC Thrapston (Eastern Area Boating Station) for Easter weekend.

 Lt Dawson took PO Kundi, PO Stansfield, OC's Auty and Weavil, and Cadtes Morris and Mays to learn how to sail, with CPO Watson as the safety boat driver. WO1 Young took PO Powers, AC Hanson-Lunn, OC Watson and Cadet Armitage powerboat handling, SLt Sadler took PCI O'Melia, AC Townley, OC Young and Jnr's Joyce-Milner, Weavil, Stansfield and Hansom rowing.

Sailing Qualifications - RYA Youth Sailing Scheme (YSS) Stage 1 OC's Auty and Weavil and Cdt's Mays and Morris and RYA Level 1 sailing PO Kundi and PO Stansfield

Rowing Qualifications Competent Crew - Jnr's Hansom, Stansfield, Joyce-Milner and Weavil and PO Powers and Supervised Coxswain PCI O'Melia, AC Townley and OC Young

Power Qualifications RYA Level 1 PO Powers, AC Hanson-Lunn, OC Watson and Cdt Armitage and RYA Level 2 Power (Planing endorsement) SLt Sadler