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FRUSTRATINGLY SATISFYING.
Posted on 11:57am Sunday 16th October 2011
After last weeks minor shoulder injury sustained whilst Sailing a Dart 16, it was great to get back on the water fully fit. The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy was busy as they were at the start of ‘Speed Week’ and hoping a few records may be set to be broken. It wouldn’t have been on Saturday though as we experienced another beautifully sunny day with the wind averaging 7 knots in a south easterly direction.
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Autumn Block Commences.
Posted on 11:10am Sunday 25th September 2011
Saturday was a beautiful morning and as I headed down to the Sailing Academy I was especially pleased as it was the first time I had been dinghy sailing in nearly 10 days!
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Helming A New Skud 18
Posted on 11:36am Tuesday 5th July 2011
This weekend saw the start of the International Federation of Disabled Sailing Event at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy and I was excited to be volunteering for it. I arrived on Saturday morning not really knowing what to expect as my usual job of safety cover on the water wasn’t needed as the organisers of the event provide their own safety boats. However, it turned out that I had a fantastic, varied weekend learning new skills and meeting new people.
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4th 4 Me!
Posted on 5:24pm Friday 27th May 2011
With the first race series of the year now complete, I was pretty chuffed with my 4th place overall.
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Apply and Prepare
Posted on 7:12am Thursday 19th May 2011
Since my last blog, lots of things have been prepared both on and off the water. All the usual mix of windsurfing, (assistant) instructing, race club and race series have all been going on during the weekday evenings but I have also started to apply and prepare for non-water based activities.
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Yachts are Yachting
Posted on 9:58am Thursday 5th May 2011
I was looking forward to the weekend – yacht racing wasn’t something I had come across yet and to be privileged to see the racing close up (as well as working) was a great experience.
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A Perfect Week
Posted on 6:41pm Friday 22nd April 2011
It has been a busy yet perfect week containing a mixture of volunteering, (assistant) instructing, windsurfing and Sailing.
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Getting stuck in
Posted on 9:37am Friday 15th April 2011
This week I arrived at Race Club and, although I was likely to get wet anyway, it wasn’t great rigging the boat in the rain.
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Windsurfing fun
Posted on 5:55pm Friday 8th April 2011
Now that the clocks have gone forward and the lighter evenings are with us, my week has changed a bit as I am now able to sail in the early evenings instead of, and sometimes as well as, the weekend.
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Sailing as a Gnome
Posted on 11:05am Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Saturday's Sailing was slightly different as we were doing a sponsored sail in aid of Red Nose Day 2011.
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A fantastic time being a 'casualty'
Posted on 12:19pm Thursday 17th March 2011
As I headed down to the academy on Saturday, I wondered if I was asking just a bit too much. Today needed to be windy and tomorrow needed to be calm.
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Disaster on the water
Posted on 1:27pm Tuesday 8th March 2011
Saturday morning dawned and I was raring to go.
Adam Greaves »
Sailing buzz
Posted on 10:53am Sunday 20th February 2011
After last weeks Power Boat course, this week I returned to my normal routine of OnBoard Club in the morning and Race Club in the afternoon.
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Exhilarating speed
Posted on 5:14pm Monday 14th February 2011
My volunteering stepped up a gear this weekend when I undertook the RYA Power Boat 2 course at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.
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A blustery start
Posted on 6:32pm Monday 7th February 2011
It was really windsurfing weather rather than sailing weather as it was approximately 28 knots, gusting up to 40 knots over the course of the day, but undeterred by this, I headed to SailLaser for the first session of the season.
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Adam's joy as season begins
Posted on 12:48pm Monday 31st January 2011
To say I was excited was a complete understatement – the sailing season for me has officially begun!
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PORTLAND schoolboy Adam Greaves got a taste of life on the water with The Chesil Trust charity's Sail for £5 scheme and caught the sailing bug. The Royal Manor pupil has progressed through his dinghy sailing qualifications thanks to scholarship funding from the charity and SailLaser sailing school at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy and has now achieved assistant instructor level. Adam, aged 14, has already amassed more than 160 hours volunteer time at the academy. Here we follow his progress as he sets his sights on volunteering and taking part in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sailing events on his home waters.
