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25 April - Busy Week for St Albans Sea Cadets
St Albans Sea Cadets welcomes new hand at the helm of HMS St Albans
Unit Annual Inspection on Tuesday 12th February. See the pictures here.
Christmas Party See the pictures here.
Join St Albans Sea Cadets and go to Oxford University! Yes, congratulations to the two former cadets who've just been accepted by Oxford University (conditional on A Level results).
Multi Training Weekend: well done those who attended
Remembrance Parade 2007 Picture Library Trafalgar Parade 2007 Picture Library
Volunteers Needed: Our Cadets Need You!
Committee secretary – “to be available to take and publish minutes of the management meeting once a month.”
Maintenance work – “Bus, buildings, boats, equipment and building services”
Also: Electrical Contractors to undertake essential electrical maintenance work
Please contact us: By email here or call Brian on 01727 760272
Expedition Training: well done on winning the District ET and competing at the Area competition. Six pictures here
BCU 1 Star Course: well done to the St Albans Cadets who joined this district course run by St Albans Staff member. See picture library here
National Regetta, Royal Victoria Dock: well tried to Jake and Hugo for competing in the doubles canoe marathon, no medals but you are still in the top 7 of the country!
TS Raleigh - well done to the cadets who went on the trip from Brixham to Gosport. Account and hopefully pictures here soon.
French Expedition: picture library here and account here
13-15 July Area Canoeing & Combined Regatta Nottingham, well done all. We came 3rd out of 9 districts and Hughes and Earle won the doubles and are through to the National finals.
Special thanks to CI Nash who was duty staff and on duty for 4 hours from 4am on Saturday and Sunday mornings, without commitment like this the weekend wouldn't have been possible!
30 June District Swimming. We won 75% of the races - well done all!
23 June HMS Wildfire Visit, for their annual inspection. Thanks to the cadets who attended and CI Frost for supervising See picture library here
23 June Archbishop Desmond Tutu Cathedral Visit
St Albans Sea
Cadets form part of Guard of Honour and meet Tutu too.
Thanks to the cadets who attended and PO Tremayne for supervising
See big picture here
3 June District Kayaking Competition - St Albans dominate, well done paddlers! See picture library here
FALKLANDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY YOMP Sponsored expedition 28th May Well done all it went well.
Herts District Pulling & Sailing Regatta well done St Albans team - especially Tom for coming first in the Toppers, and Graham and Hugo for first in the Bosuns. See picture library here
19 May Pulling and Dinghy Training at Welsh Harp. See picture library here
Fullbore Shooting Weekend - See account here
Rater Cup & Topper Trophy 2007 - well done St Albans team - especially Tom Oakley for coming second in the Toppers. See picture library here
Well Done St Georges Parade Detail for their London duties. See account here
St Albans Instructor Qualifies as Canoe Supervisor at massive London Area Kayak weekend at RVDBS
Also pictures from Canoe Safety Test course and introduction to 3 Star course from March (a very cold weekend in the water!)
Good Inspection. Annual awards listed here. Thanks to General Yam, South African Defense Force, for the presentations.
Seamanship Competition: we didn't win overall but did win two of the stances so congratulations to the team for that
Meanwhile our Marines were deployed on: Exercise Falling Star see the report here >
First Aid: RYA / SCC 3rd Class. 9 cadets and 2 staff passed on Saturday 3rd March. Nice work!
Marine Cadets Winning Ways - a great start to 2007!
Drill Team - well done the Marines for winning your section of the Area Competition this weekend. Well done to the Sea Cadets for coming 4th - great result from you all. Thank you for all the dedicated training and practice. See pictures here
Annual Inspection: Good turn out, well done all. Congratulation to the whole unit - we won a burgee again, making us a top 20% unit. The picture here on the right is Commander Kent presenting us with the burgee (for the previous year, 2006). The Mayor also honored us with her presence.
Congratulations to the Shooting Team on a great performance.
Congratulations to the Drill Team on winning District Drill. Well done, all the practice was worthwhile!
National Training - Links to 2007 programme now published on SCC HQ website
Cadets
National Offshore Courses (includes TS Royalist) new
2007 listing (pdf 1.1mb)
National
Training Courses 2007/8 new 2007 listing (pdf)
National
Boatwork Courses 2007/8 new 2007 listing (pdf)
Marine Cadet (MCD) Courses 2007 new 2007 directory
New Marine Cadet Detachment Area - check it out!
HMS St Albans was at the Excel Boat Show, staff visited and then 20 cadets spent a (free) day at the show and had a tour of the ship. Two cadets then sailed with her back to Portsmouth and were driven back in the Mayor of St Albans' limousine (thank you Mrs Mayor!)
There is a RYA VHF Radio course next Saturday with 4 going from the unit. Well done: all 4 passed!
Christmas Party Pics - A BIG thanks to Margaret and all her helpers!
BAG PACKING Fund Raising: Thanks to those who volunteered and did such a great job - we desperately need the money!
RYA Safety Boat Course at Welsh Harp - St Albans TI Passes - Pictures
Meet the Marines Account now added
Remembrance Parade: 12th November St Albans. We will remember them. See the pictures here - great turn out, thanks! Press Release here
Halloween: Fancy Dress Night. Fun had by all! See the pictures
29th October: 5-A-Side Football Competition, Hendon. Well done all, great results! See pictures here
Meet the Marines eveny at Milton Keynes - see the Pictures here
Half Term Week: Three cadets went to The Welsh Harp and passed RYA Performance Sailing dinghy module.Three went to SCTC Raleigh, Plymouth doing the fun cadet general training course - read the Account Here
22 October: Trafalgar Parade This year at Hertford see pictures here. More Hertford pictures just added here
Some of our cadets went to Trafalgar Square for the national parade see the pictures here.
Another London picture album now here
ET Competition - October pictures
7/8 October: District Multi Activity weekend with courses in Seamanship, Piping, Cook/Steward and Writer/Stores (office administration). 17 St Albans Sea Cadets attended and most passed, well done, and a big thank you to the instructors, who give their time for free.
Also cadets were in action at the London Area Boating Stations with RYA Powerboat Level 2 courses at Victoria Dock and RYA Dinghy Seamanship Modules at Welsh Harp.
30 Sept / 1 October: SRMO's - Marine Cadets field craft inspection. Well done, 3rd in Eastern Area and a top commendation Also see pictures here of pre SRMO practice. Drill so good they've been invited to forthcoming national Trafalgar Parade in London.
Trainee Instructor qualifies as RYA Dinghy Instructor on rigorous course in Scotland Pictures here Press Release here
Saturday 9th Sept Area Swimming - well done all swimmers!
HELP! We desperately need help with the galley for stand easy. Just 45 minutes would cover running the modest little sweet shop - could you do it just once a fortnight or month? All the staff are volunteers and parents/guardians, we really need your support on this one. Please!
Mowing: we could also do with help on this rota.
To help:
Just tell us in the office on a parade night or Email Here. Many hands make light work. Please help us!
HMS Albion: Lucy's Account and Pictures now added Here
Tallships Race: Kat and Flo sailed the 800 miles non-stop to Lisbon in 9 day 57 minutes aboard the sea cadets flagship TS Royalist, coming 6th in class and 22nd overall (from a fleet of 68 ships). Great effort and both girls qualified as SCC Offshore Watch Leaders. As well as sailing they swam, fished and saw dolphins. Picture Library Here, download Flo's "dolphin-cast" .avi file 6.5 mb also see the Account Here
Unit Newsletter, our year to May download the pdf here
TS Rebel Offshore Weekend See Press Release on the sloop TS Leopald Muller plus see picture library here
Reach for the Top! See Press Release on half term TS Royalist tallship voyage plus see picture library here
District Canoeing Competition - at Stevenage. Well done the Canoe Champs! Press Release here
District Sailing & Pulling Regetta 21 May. Well done all who turned out. We dominated the sailing and put in a great effort in the pulling. Press Release here
Rater Cup & Topper Trophy 13 May. Well done our team of 6, especially Tom who came 3rd in the Toppers. Picture library here Press Release here
Cadet Progress Charts. These are in Excel (Thanks Vicky for the hard work on these). Female Sea Cadets Male Sea Cadets
Mansfied Boating Weekend 29/30 April. Sailing, Pulling, Canoeing and Swimming. Fun had by all! Picture library see here!
Donations Standing Order form added, all cadets should be paying these minimal volantary contributions, see parents/guardians page
Training section updated to include Cadet Specialisation Badges