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Chris's Trip on Royalist!
Three of our cadets were lucky enough to gain a place on T.S Royalist last year! A/C George shares some of his pictures with us!
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Southern Area Boat Station!
Every other weekend, cadets have the oportunity to stay onboard HMS Bristol and clock up qualifications in Boating. Staff are all RYA trained and a weekend costs under £20! Bargain!
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Spinnaker training!
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Unit E.T Camp!
A weekend of staying under canvas prooved to be a success at Cricket Camp 21-23rd Sept! Cadets worked towards their basic and proficiency in camp craft with the added bonus of rifle shooting, archery and tunneling underground! Revenge is still to be taken on A/C George who soaked PO Williams during a water fight between himself and Cheif Dyer! I'm sure what she is planning will be remembered!
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Tunnelling at Cricket Camp!
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teamwork and expedition training skills!
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Royal Navy Parade
Thursday 20th Sept was the night of our annual inspection! Weeks of preparation including displays and ceremonial helped up receive an excellent result. A/C George did a brillint job at Parade Commander and Guard Commander A/C Miles alon with fellow guard members put on an excellent display of armed drill. A big pat on the back the the cadets who persuaded both the District Officer and Commanding officer to take part in a hillarious display of blind folded team work! Promotions went to A/C George, O/C Harcout BRown, CdtKimber and 2nd Class Junior George. Photos coming soon!
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Our main evlolution was a humourous display of a Day in the Life of a ship! Caddes displayed skills in navigation, seamanship, engineering and cook stewarding and had a good laugh in doing so!
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Staff getting roped in to the activities!
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District officer Lt Cdr English joining in with the evolution!
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Deep water
Boats all loaded and ready to go...just waiting for the tide to rise.
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One volunteer for water depth test...well volunteered really!
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And the verdict was yes...but very cold!
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Just one more test..using staff this time!
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Cadets meet the Royal Marines Band, Portsmouth!
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Yep...deep and cold!
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Throughly wet...
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Some still have work to do...preparing the ASC for sailing.
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Just ensure the mast is attached!
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District Kayak Regatta!
Three cadets represented the unit at District Kayaking 2007, with two cadets getting through to Area Level!
L/C Froment won a place in senior Girls, Cdt Hough in Jnr Boys and A/C Miles almost gained victory but pulled out during the race due to an old injury! Bad luck! Almost three there! Well Done Guys!
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LC Froment heading for victory!
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Cdt Hough doing a great job at keeping his position! (red Kayak)
(we are in the red boat!)
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...and thats a win for Winchester...well done!
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After a hard days kayaking, all the cadets were exhausted.
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The presentations finished the day...a chance to give well deserved congratulations to all cadets competing.
Here are our 2 brilliant paddlers who managed to get through to Area.
Well done!
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Unit day out
The girls!.....
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.....And the boys!
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Aye Aye Captain!
Some of our cadets had a go at captaining HMS Mersey from the Captain's chair!
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if Captain wasn't good enough, we also had a and chief navigation officer on board HMS Kent!
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HMS Bristol
Our harbout tour included our favourite ship, HMS Bristol!
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Bad Hair Day!
The wind played havoc with the girl's hair on the harbour tour!
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Wet and wild on the Harbour tour
PO Williams and a cadet protect themselves from the elements up on deck of the Harbour tour boat!
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Admiral Lord Nelson
We had a visit from the famous Admiral Nelson onboard his ship the Victory when he was concerned he was under attack!
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Novice band weekend
The bands of Winchester, Kettering, Reading and Romsey.
With our very own drum major leading the band.
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Presentation Evening
Our Annual Awards Presentation started off 2007! Our Guest VIP was Lt Nicklin who both inspected ships company aswell as presented the awards! Well done to everyone who worked hard over 2006.
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The unit band's first performance and the awards ceremony! A bit nerve wraking as they had only started 6 weeks prior, but they managed to pull of a great performance!
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Fire Station Visit
Our juniors recently visited Winchester Fire Station as part of their Junior Cadet Syllabus. They all had a fantastic time and learnt an awful lot.
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The Juniors were given the opportunity to try on some of the clothing worn by the firemen.
Maybe a little too big?
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Rememberance 2006
PO Williams, Lt Dyer and the cadets in the guard for the 2006 Rememberance Parade. (please take note, the picture was taken whilst standing on a slope!)
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Hay Bale
The Battle of Cheriton Hay bale rolling competition. The competition was between the Sea Cadets and the Young farmers.
Unsurprisingly the Young farmers won!
The competition was really good fun if not a little tiring!
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