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Our junior sea cadets were out recruiting recently at their local st George's day festival. While there they decided to enter themselves into the community tug of war match. the juniors progressed through the rounds before informing the commanding officer Lt Farrell that they had made the final. Staff and supporters stood by to watch as the juniors found themselves competing against the local fire brigade! there was a lot of pride and bragging rights at stake so the fire fighters by no means took it easy on the junior cadets.
The first round was easily won by the juniors, but following a slip on the grass in the 2nd round AC cogley who was assisting the junior team managed to put most of the junior team on the floor so the round went to the fire brigade. Going into the final round all was at stake and the juniors managed to tug their way to victory leaving the firefighters defeated.  The juniors are delighted with the community trophy they have won and look forward to competing again next year!

Row the World in 80 Hours!

Huyton sea cadets supported the national sea cadet appeal to buy a new ship by participating in the Rowathon the challenge was - to take on an amazing nautical challenge between 18 – 21 April to Row the World in 80 hours!  That’s 24,900 miles...  This is all made possible with the help of British Rowing, who are donating static rowers at spots around the country.

This year's National Sea Cadet Aviation Aquaint course was held at SCTC Weymouth and RNAS Yeovilton from 27 Feb - 1 March.   

LC Cheng attended and passed she was then presented with her Bronze Wings by Commodore Martin Westwood RN who had just retired as Assistant Chief of Staff Aviation. 

Unfortunately the weather was not that good during the week as the Navy's Grob fleet was grounded. However, all cadets managed a 45 minute flight in a Sea King HC4 from 854 NAS Commando Helicopter Force and, as you can imagine, this was the highlight of their week. 

On return from her course Leading cadet Cheng wrote;

Having spent 5 days at my first national course, the positive atmosphere that developed whilst I was there was wonderful. On arrival at Sea Cadet Training Centre Weymouth, we all received our warm welcome (12 cadets) and begun the week with our first ever lesson... Through 2 days, we spent our day time learning theory; parts of a plane and principles of flying. During the evenings we flew on the flight simulator and practised landing and taking off (not easy). After these 2 days of hard work, we were lucky enough to go to Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton and fly in the Sea King Mk 4 - they let us open the door and experience what it felt like to look down to Earth (with safety belt of course); it was scary but worth it definitely! We visited the hangars where the new Wildcat helicopters were developing and visited the Fleet Air Arm museum as well and saw various interesting planes, especially the rare Swordfish! We took our ground school exam on Thursday including on the simulator; this consisted of a range of background learning from the theory and navigation (similar to chart work). Personally, I found this alright but nerve-racking, but during offshore leave, we all went to the arcades and went to the beach (despite it was dark). This was where I felt the true feeling of being on a national course being reflected by the proud relief and hard work in the course. Friday morning we all got presented with our briefings and gladly to say, everyone passed! We all got awarded our Bronze Wings and memories to bring home. I would love to go again no doubt…

Following on from Liverpool district success Huyton with Roby sea cadets have started the new year with fantastic footballing wins the junior boys and senior boys teams won the north west area 5 aside competition and are now busy training for national competition to be held at RAF Cranwell in February 2013. the national competition will see them playing their skills against cadet units from all over the country. good luck teams! 

Huyton teams went on to compete at National level and help North west area to become the overall winners of the national competition.

As the country celebrates a successful 2012 Olympics in London, Huyton sea cadets have spent the boating season competing at; district, area and national level. The sea cadets have shown a variety of positive attributes to sports and sportsmanship. To be a part of the teams they have worked hard, shown dedication, loyalty and team working skills throughout the boating and competition season. In doing this and working together they have shown that dedication and hardwork along with skill and fitness pays off. They have recently competed broadly against sea cadets from throughout the North west of England with amazing results; the power boat handling team had the opportunity to show off their power-boating skills which was a unit 1st in this competition, Cdt sergeant Kellaher led the kayaking teams to victory when scooping the winning trophy for the senior boys kayaking, Able cadet cogley went on to win the topper class sailing and was the first Huyton cadet to compete at National sailing which was held in Southport. In team sport the junior girls and junior boys teams after winning their competitions headed to the national regatta in September. 
At the national regatta the cadets competed against sea cadets from England, Scotland and northern Ireland. The junior boys rowing team became the first juniors from Liverpool district to ever win the national competition, while the junior girls became the first junior girls to win their category from the whole North West area sea cadets. Commanding officer Lt (scc) Mike Farrell RNR highlights " to compete at that level is a fantastic achievement and to have 2 teams bringing home the trophies is tremendous as it demonstrates the fantastic dedication, teamwork, commitment and hard work that these Huyton cadets have given they have made me and our unit very proud indeed!"