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Northern Area 5-A-Side Football 2008
On the 12th and 13th of January cadets from Inverness and Orkney units played as Highland District in the 5-a-side football Area competition. We went down to Tranent past Edinburgh and stayed over night at Musselburgh Unit to come home proud of our 4th place in the junior boys competition.
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Cadets honour Chief Edward
18 December 2007
Chief Wilma Edward, of Inverness Sea Cadets, is retiring from her uniformed position as Chief Petty Officer to become a Civilian Instructor, having dedicated 15 years of her life to the voluntary organisation.
On Tuesday night she was surprised with a bouquet of flowers, a trophy and a certificate signed by Captain Jonathan Fry RN, the Captain of the Sea Cadet Corps.
Mrs Edward joined TS Briton, Inverness, when her daughter Tina and son John were cadets but the family connection with the Unit continues. Tina's daughter Coral is now a cadet and Wilma's husband Jim, a bus driver, continues as an instructor.
She joined the uniformed staff as a Probationary Petty Officer. In 1994 she became a Petty Officer and five years later she rose to Chief Petty Officer.
In 2005, she was awarded the Cadet Forces Medal for 12 years service. As well as looking after the admin at TS Briton, Mrs Edward also helped instructing the cadets, supervising camps and trips, and generally always being there.
Yesterday, Sub/Lt Robbie Hay, the unit's Officer In Charge, said: "Wilma thoroughly deserved the award. Obviously, with Jim and Coral involved she'll not disappear completely. But we have greatly valued her help over so many years."
Yesterday, Mrs Edward, of Westhill, said: "I definitely wasn't expecting anything. It was totally unbelievable."
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The Giant Sleep Over - June 2007
The Inverness Sea Cadets had a sleepover with all the Junior Cadets at our Unit. We had so much fun playing games (getting very wet!) and doing record breaking stuff.
NB Because of England sinking after the rain, many sleepovers were cancelled and the record for most people sleeping over at the same time, and for the most people brushing their teeth at the same time, weren't broken this time. We will try again next year.
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Highland District Regatta - Second Leg
Twenty-seven cadets and twelve staff from all five units of Highland District attended a Powerboating and Canoe training weekend at Inverness Unit.
We had 5 power boats; we had borrowed 3 of the sea scouts and the other 2 were our own. The power boaters were at Dochgarroch and Loch Dochfour, and the kayakers were at the Muirtown Basin on the local canal. Everybody had a great time as it was a fabulous weekend (and the weather was not so bad!).
The final score was 2 RYA Power Level 2, 11 RYA Power Level 1, and 9 BCU Level 1 certificates - 22 of the 25 candidates passing their course.
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Highland District Regatta at Orkney
43 Cadets and 18 Adults from Highland Units attended a Sailing and Pulling weekend with 19 Cadets achieving Water Safety, and 5 Cadets and A/CPO Sutherland passing for Pulling Competent Crew. A number of Cadets also completed parts of their training towards RYA Dinghy Sailing and SCC Pulling qualifications.
Originally intended as an afloat training weekend and District Regatta, training had to be altered to shore based due to inclement weather, and 4 cadets gained Seamanship 3rd Class. However a small weather window presented itself on Saturday afternoon and thanks to the assistance of Instructors from the Orkney Sailing Club all Cadets got some afloat time either sailing, pulling or power boating. This was of particular benefit to the recently formed Wick Sub Unit whose Cadets had their first experience of SCC boating.
On the way back to mainland Scotland by ferry, the mv Hamnavoe, we were priviliged to visit the bridge where the Chief Mate explained all the buttons to us.
Well done everyone, and thank-you Orkney.
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Ski Week
On the Northern Area Ski Week, there were 17 cadets from all over Scotland, NE England and N.Ireland staying in Newtonmore, including one from Inverness.
The weather was not all it could be, but we did manage sking once on the top of Cairngorm.
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Fundraise by Recycling
Inverness Courier 08/02/2007
Inverness Sea Cadets are fund-raising by recycling office and electrical equipment. The Cadets have collect used mobile phones, inkjet printer cartridges, laser toners and aluminium cans and during the course of the last year they raised over £500. One Cadet alone raised £100 for the Unit having brought in 50 unwanted phones.
Telephone 01463 226069 if you can help by donating items.
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Inverness Tattoo
July 24th to 29th was this year’s Inverness Tattoo.
Among this year’s star attractions were the White Helmets Motorcycle Display Team, the Golden Lions Parachute Display Team, the Pipes and Drums of the The Highlanders and other guest Pipe Bands, a display from 19 Regiment Royal Artillery (The Highland Gunners), displays of Highland and Country Dancing and an assault course competition which saw the Cadets Units competing for a trophy. (This was won by the Air Training Corps - again!)
The week ended with a parade through the City before the show, where the Provost took a salute at the Town House. For the first time, our Junior Sea Cadets took part in the parade. A grand fireworks display finished off the week.
Some (Sea Cadet) photos are in the Picture Gallery.
click to visit the Inverness Tattoo website
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The Giant Sleep Over 2006
Inverness Sea Cadet Junior Section joined the national sleeping marathon last night and helped raise much needed funds for the unit as well as ChildLine, as well as having a lot of fun and getting VERY wet.
The BT Giant Sleepover was also a world record breaking attempt for the biggest sleep over on one night across the UK. In addition, in another world record attempt, the Minty Mouth Challenge supported by Aquafresh, we attempted to beat the record for the largest simultaneous teeth brushing session, so we should all be happy, smiley double Guinness World Record holders!
More info: www.giantsleepover.com
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...and PO Stewart had to give the Ghost Story before bedtime!
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Chanonry Sailing Club
CSC celebrated 50 years at the start of June 2006 with a gala day and fundraising for the RNLI.
We went along to get wet...
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20 April 2006
New website launched.
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