The Trust helps young people to experience character building maritime activities, and helps the education and training of young people up to the age of 25 years, from the Isle of Wight, in sailing, boat handling, seamanship and navigation.
The Trust has also supported Olympic hopefuls, one of whom is Chris Rashley from St Helens who is currently three times Moth European Champion and RYA coach to the potential Rio Olympic squad in the 49erFX women’s skiff class.
One day I hope to the win the Olympics and I would love to sail a foiling moth!
As well as having their support it's really great knowing that the members of the Royal London Yacht Club have noticed my sailing and think I can do really well in the future. Now I just have to go out and do it!
Last weekend I raced at the Spinnaker Open to get some practice in for the End of Season Championships. We had about 40 people in the main fleet with a few squad sailors so it was good competition. It was very light winds and it's always really shifty at Spinnaker. I had my first ever black flag so had to sit out the third race which wasn't so good but if you are being aggressive on the start it's going to happen sometimes. In the other races, I had two 7th places and 1st in the last race of the day. I beat the National Champion, Milo Gill-Taylor, in that race which was epic. Overall I finished 5th which I was pleased with.
This weekend I'm racing at the RYA South Zone Championships in Poole. The forecast looks like it's going to be a windy one so it should be good fun.
