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Congratulations to our Junior Boys Rowing Team, competing for Warwickshire District at the South West Area Sea Cadets' combined regatta being held at Bristol Adventure Unit and gaining a Gold Medal.

They now go to National competition.

The team are:

Jay Lester, Adam Joseph, Charlie Greaves, Lewis Pease, John Deery and Harry Fell.

Well done to the cadets that represented the unit today at the District Sailing Regatta 2016. Some excellent results, which were as follows:

Open Pico

AC Tom Gahan - Winner (Gold Medal)

CDT Tom Moseley - 3rd Place (Bronze Medal)

Open PY

CDT Abigail Seaton - Winner (Gold Medal)

The unit finished in 2nd Place overall.

Well done to the cadets that competed and the adults that helped to train, transport and support the cadets today.

Sub Lt (SCC) Dean Marshall RNR

Commanding Officer

Pleased to announce the final results from this weekend's District Combined Regatta. 32 of our cadets competed in a variety of water based events with the following success:

Junior Boys Rowing: Winner - Gold Medals   Junior Girls Rowing: 3rd - Bronze Medals

Open Boys Rowing: 4^th   Open Girls Rowing: 4th

Open Mixed Doubles Yole: 4^th   Open Single Boys Yole: 4th

Rowing Boat Handling: 2nd - Silver Medals  Sail Boat Handling: 3rd - Bronze Medals

Power Boat Handling: 3rd - Bronze Medals

OVERALL: 2nd Place

The Junior Boys Rowing Team will progress to the South West Area Sea Cadets' Combined Regatta in July, which will be held on Bristol.

A huge well done to all of the cadets that competed this weekend and to the adults that helped train, support, transport and cheer on the cadets. An excellent result that we should all be very proud of.

The results from today's Paddlesport comp as follows:

Junior Girls time trial K1 - 4^th Junior Boys time trial K2 - 3^rd

Open Boys time trial K2 - 1^st Junior Boys time trial K1 - 2^nd

Open Boys time trial K1 - 1^st Open Girls time trial K2 - 3^rd

Junior Girls sprint K1 - 4^th Junior Boys sprint K2 - 2^nd

Open Girls sprint K1 - 4^th Open Boys sprint K2 - 1^st

Junior Boys sprint K1 - 3^rd Open Boys sprint K1 - 1^st

Open Girls sprint K2 - 5^th Cross Stream Kayak - 3^rd

Cross Stream Open Canoe Solo - 1^st

Well done to everyone taking part today, very impressive results.

Well what a day, who has ever seen a water tornado? Well our cadets saw it close up; they got thrown out of their kayaks. Well done to our Instructors and Olton Mere Sailing Club for their assistance in retrieving cadets and boats.

A sea cadet's mum and member of Olton Mere Sailing Club, said: "I was at the Shirley Sea Cadets 60th Rowathon and also the RYA 'push the boat out event' for sailing, a very successful day with lots of people having a great time".

At approx 15:40, a twister or waterspout appeared from nowhere and landed on the water. It capsized the sea cadets into the water; one child was lifted 4 feet up out the water and dropped down.

All the children were thrown out of the kayaks. They were rescued from the water within seconds by both sea cadet and sailing club safety cover boats.

The children are all fine.The cadets themselves acted spectacularly using the training that they have gained before.