Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page "Sail the UK for the North West Area".

We are sailing enthusiasts and cadet leaders who are trying to raise money for bursaries/grants to help cadets, who couldn't normally afford it, to be able to go to sea training and working as a team on a square rig, power vessel or yacht. Please support us in this adventure and in return we can promise lots of pictures and entertaining 'salty sea dog' stories...

The Crew

Lt Cdr (SCC) P Matthews MBE RNR

Phill Matthews joined the Sea Cadets to learn to sail after reading Swallows and Amazons. As a 16 year old cadet he won his unit’s Cadet of the Year (TS Royalist had yet to be completed) as a prize, the local RNA sponsored a trip aboard the Sail Training ship Sir Winston Churchill. Phill spent a lot of the next few years involved in offshore activities with the SCC. Like many others, he found it difficult to spend time offshore, there were so many other activities that the cadets were involved in.

Phill has served the SCC in many senior roles in the North West Area. Outside of cadets, Phill and his wife Maureen took up fostering young people for the local authority where they lived. Some of these have remained in contact and a few are considered to be very close family. Phil and Maureen have a son whom they adopted. They also have four grown-up sons and a grown-up daughter from fostering. 

Phill remembers that his early life was not one of affluence and it was only the SCC who enabled him to participate in the wide variety of activities and meet the wonderful people that are either members of, or linked to the Sea Cadet Corps.    

PO (SCC) J Platt

John is a late-comer to the Sea Cadet Corps and to yachting. So late in fact that this will be the first time that he will have been on a yacht and out of sight of land. Within the Corps, John is a Navigation instructor and he is hoping that he can get a chance to practice his skills whilst onboard. [skipper note: He certainly will!]

He works for Angel Solutions (An education focused Software company) and is married with 3 sons.  All of John's immediate family are members of the Corps.

John is looking forward to this adventure and hopes that the team will inspire others to get out there and get offshore.

PO (SCC) E Cabrini - ASO Navigation (NW Area)

All started with a book from the library "Dinghy Sailing in a weekend" with my dad, when I was 10. Lake Como, in Italy, was certainly an easy introduction to sailing, soon I moved up to keel boats. When I  moved to the UK, in 1994 I started attending RYA courses...and I never stopped. I am now a RYA shorebased and Cruising Instructor. Always looking for new sailing adventures!

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