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On Sunday the 20th of June the unit entered the District Pulling Regatta at the Southern Area Boat Station at Portsmouth harbour.

After many nights and weekends of training in race starts and working together as a team

We entered the Boys Open Pulling Races up against another 3 teams form the district, 4 races were run and then the final.

During the final the team was cut up and infringed on by another boat, but pulled them selves together and came in a very close position of 3rd, but after a protest was raised the team which had cut the boat up were disqualified and we were promoted to second place.

It was a fantastic day and the team did the unit proud.

Well done to them

Roll on next year

As the date draws closer to the unit starting boating on parade nights it was a spring clean of the units Rib and Bosun Dinghy, with the cadets cleaning them ready for it. Not a nice job but well done.

Prince Harry gave 60 cadets a day to remember when he paid a surprise visit to their training session in the Brecon Beacons on 6 April. The cadets from across the cadet forces were participating in a day-long trek as part of the final preparations for their Summer expedition to Lesotho, southern Africa, where they will volunteer with Prince Harry’s charity, Sentebale, working with orphans and vulnerable children.

A former cadet himself, Prince Harry is patron of the Lestho expedition, organised as part of the Cadet150 celebrations. The Prince wished them well for this summer’s adventure and thanked them for supporting his charity.

On Friday the 23rd of April the unit held a training weekend in which the Junior Sea Cadets and New Entry Cadets carried out continuation training.

Also attending the weekend were a number of Senior Cadets who were working on their Duke of Edinburgh awards scheme route planning.

A great weekend was had by all.

On Saturday 15th May the unit held the annual awards presentation, but to make it more interesting we had a families open day. The Mayor of Fareham kindly attended as the VIP. A number of well earned Rate, Specialisation & Proficiencies badges were presented.

There were a number of stands around the unit displaying the different activities that the Cadets take part in. The Units Clubs and Hornpipe Displayed in front of the VIP and families.

Boat trips were run for the Parents in the units RIB, the day ended with the Awards Ceremony. A fantastic day was had by all.