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Ready to tack in three, two, one. It makes you just feel so powerful and strong. But it also makes you feel free. It has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. It was pretty rough conditions, like 20 knots, wind against tide. Lets keep behind, lets keep behind. The weather was crazy. Right . And is the ambulance on the way, is it . The coastguard apparently lost contact with it. So when my parents first found out i was sailing, they were like, whats sailing . Youre just on a boat. But once i qualified and now im a sailing instructor, they realise that im actually getting somewhere. Its not what they expected. The main reason why i do this whole programme is that it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. Ill probably use the helm one. Sometimes its hard for me to articulate myself. And when youre on a boat with different people, you have to kind of communicate. If not, it can go wrong. So it kind of helped me grow my communication skills. Are you nervous . Yes. Dont be. Screams and laughter what the hell . The students who originally started the programme, they became a lot more into racing, in particular. We went on ebay. We bought initially a 22 foot boat from a back garden of a farm in birmingham. We did that, did it up, realised it wasnt very good, so then looked again, and this time, we found a really classic racing yacht. We were advised not to buy it, so we bought it. We then spent about another two years raising the money to get the boat up to spec, and then we started racing it. And we did our first race back in 2017 and we won it. Bell rings. Our busiest day was probably every fridays cos usually thats when we leave from school to go to the trips. So its quite a busy day cos its wake up, school, trip, get back to london by sunday, and then we have to catch up with our homework to be prepared for monday. Its a bit difficult, i but as you go along, you kind of get the hang of it. Like, sometimes, well| do homework together. And then go from the decimal point three, and then go backwards. No, backwards. Backward, bro, backwards. This way so its all about, like, balancing it, but its. Not too hard. Greig city academy is located in hornsey. Nearly all of the students from our school are derived from east haringey. A lot of them do come from disadvantaged backgrounds, but i think what impresses me about them is they dont sort of let that be a barrier to participation and things which they perceive are difficult. Did var help the ref . Or has it deskilled the ref . Football commentary without sailing, i was just like a normal kid. Id just be running around school, not focused, not having a goal in mind. But now im focused, determined to do well cos i miss school, some school for sailing, so i have to make sure i catch up after hours. What was the key benefit in terms of economics . I some of them are tutored outside of school time, which means that they can then catch up and actually probably probably maybe even do slightly better than if they werent doing the sport. So were excited for the weekend. Weve got a good ten knots of wind. Its against us all the way, but thats good. So at least we get lots of tacking practice in down the solent. Its not every time you get to sail with these lot. Sometimes its. Most of the time, im with these three. What could go wrong is probably kyle and jessye not Doing Theirjob with the navigating. No, thats with them. Theyre a bit slow on it sometimes. We are heading down the coast. The plan is to sail from hamble to poole harbour. Are we staying in cowes for the night . Yeah, we are. 0k. I call dibs on the biggest bed. Oh, whoa. Look at these lot running. Shriek ofjoy, laughs hey oh, my days film me. No, no. Wait, wait. Leave it recording. These beds are nice. Its hot, man. They chuckle i started off doing Outdoor Education i and i bought two trailers, 50 Mountain Bikes and two minibuses with a credit card. And at the time, cos i was in my early to mid 205, that seemed like a good idea. Like this. Then theres a little thing here. By the time the sailing started, i was married. That became a bit more controversial at home than maybe it was at the beginning. Furl the jib, roll it up. 0k, start the engine and then go back and recover the casualty. Pretty windy out there. So well put a Red Reefer Line on. I once thats all settled, well put the jib on and then well cross the channel and then on our way to cowes. All the ones of us further forwards will have gloves on, all the ones at the back, you wont need gloves because they dont really do very much on the back, do they . Kyle, you dont need gloves, do you, because youre hard, yeah . Before, when ijust started, i would use them, but now, im just used to it, so ijust use my bare hands. Unlike this one. No, the only reason im using it is because my finger� s injured. My finger� s injured. No excuses. You know, you know. You know me. Theres no excuses. Myjob on the boat is navigation and main trim and overall charge of the people in front, i doing the bow. Ill be able to explain to the person whos helming on how to get to our destination as there might be obstacles in the way and things they should find out. Ready to tack in three, two, one. If i ever went on a boat with someone, i always just wanted to helm. It makes you feel confident. Youre basically the boss. You tell everyone what to do, whats happening, cos you get to oversee everything as youre at the back of the boat. It makes you just feel so powerful and strong. When i was 13, i done the fastnet, which is 600 miles. Then i done all the qualifiers for that, which is another 600 miles. So by 13, i definitely sailed 1,200 miles. And then from then. I dont know. When we first started sailing, we were looking, we didnt really know what we were doing at the start. So we just looked at did a normal Internet Search for a yacht race which different schools could compete so we found a yacht race, it was called the arrow trophy. We tried to enter it and we were told that we couldnt because it was only for fee paying schools. We tried every trick we possibly could and we were just told, categorically, no way. So, yes, it was, even at that level, quite an exclusive sport, but weve always just overcome those challenges. Ease it, ease it, ease it. Keep walking, keep walking. Keep walking. No, no, no. Keep on going. Keep walking. We just walked past some of the sailing club, to show you around. Not too much about that, but we really want to show you the green. Interviewer how often do you come here . Basically every weekend. I think my social life has kind of changed now, so. Indistinct so were here. So were going over here. The green is there. When im in london, usually, when im sleeping, im just hearing builders, dogs, barking, sirens. Its just so loud. But here, its calm and peaceful, so i get a bit of time to myself. To get down here, we have to. They laugh we have to | maintain your behaviour. I do maintain my behaviour. Whos, whos, erm. Whos often in detention, or maybe just. Its mostly on that side. Hes often in detention. Why . Yeah, why, felipe . Because you dont do your homework, and you say, oh, i was at sailing. No, but thats. Its not an excuse, but itjust happens, so. So were at the green. We play football down there. Sometimes we go for a swim. And actually last time, we did get a chance to get a kayak. The students at the moment are in the process of Passage Planning for the journey tomorrow. Quite often, Theyjust Sail The Boat rather than doing the Passage Planning, so this is a bit of a first for them. The ferries that go to jersey and go to saint malo, they will be coming out of here as well. Have you got the other chart for the solent . Is that. . We didnt bring that. Erm. The reason for the chart, having the charts, jessye, is that we do need. We do need them. What we want to do is we want to get an idea of what were doing from cowes down to here. So thats a big part of what we do, isnt it . Thats like more than a. Thats well more than a third of the whole journey. Do you want to go back and get that . It wouldnt be on your. Indistinct id give their sailing nine out of ten. I i would give their planning at the moment five out of ten. So, yes, it was annoying that they decided to come to a Planning Meeting without the charts. There you are, jessye. They have run back and got the charts, and i believe they are in the middle of a reasonable Planning Session at the moment. Happy birthday to you. And this is like my first birthday away from my parents. But i feel like its a good experience. Yeah. To be away from home i for a long period of time. You know, ifeel like thats the part thats going to hit. I feel like Everything Else is normal. So, kyle, how was your sleep . Erm. I dont know if you can really tell, but i was sick before, l and now im even sicker. It was cold. Teacher gives instructions we need to get the boat set up and leave for eight 30. We got the main sheet up and the jib up, and it was pretty rough. Conditions, like 20 knots, wind against tide. So that means a big sea state, so a lot of chop on the waves. | lets keep behind, lets keep behind. | that way, that way, that way. Go higher, higher. That way. Much higher. The weather was crazy, and then the boat was tipping where the railing was in the water. Everyone had to balance out the boat, so everyone sat on the other side of the boat with their feet out and just trying to hopefully make sure that the boat doesnt capsize. Whats the wind speed, kyle . 22, 23 knots. 23 knots. I think there was a point where i was holding on to kyles shoulder. Even holding on to the railing and having to steer with one hand is a challenge. Whoa 0h it was hard to steer. It kind of, like, kept getting harder. You want to take over . If you want a break . Yeah. So were sailing along, past hearst castle, and were sailing into christchurch bay. We got into the nice, sort of more straightforward, flatter water. I think the boat was on a reach at the time, so it was really just a straightforward sail straight across to poole. Samiya tapped me on the shoulder to say that she doesnt feel particularly well. We didnt think too much of it. We just thought, maybe its a little pain. So we told her to go down, drink some water, have a nice rest. She was starting to get a tight chest, her breathing was becoming a bit more irregular, and as soon as those two things happen, you know that this is serious and you have to act straight away. We made the decision to transfer samiya onto the rib, which was accompanying scaramouche, because scaramouche can do eight knots, the rib can do 38 knots. But when we transferred her on the rib, she seemed to be deteriorating further. When you get that type of, like, pain or youre just stuck on a boat you dont know what to do, i feel like it raises some panic. Mr holt and nick, they had to go down and call the radio for a pan pan. Its not a mayday, but its just one below that. Boat radio chatter we communicated with the Emergency Services so that was the coastguard and the lifeboat came up from yarmouth and lymington to assist. To be able to do that, that meant myself and nick had to be down below, by the chart table, by the radio. And that was probably one of the bits where i was most impressed by what were now the boys on board, because we said to them, right, you need to sail this boat back to lymington while we do this. Wed never been in charge of a boat that size for that long. I was making sure we were sailing the boat first. And i was also looking at the chart. Because we were quite close to the coast, i didnt want to run aground. You know, kyles a day skipper, jessies a day skipper as well. Theyre perfectly competent and they showed how competent they were sailing a 45 foot racing yacht like Scaramouche All The Way back to lymington, almost unassisted. Its just a very impressive thing to be able to do when youre17 years old. 0k. Right. And is the ambulance on the way, is it . Is it . No, the coastguard apparently have lost contact with them. Continuous beeping when we got to lymington, you see the Emergency Services there and you know theyre good. The coastguard is brilliant. The first thing is a sense of relief that you know that shes in the best possible hands that there could be. She went into the ambulance and she was assessed. They said, look, she could continue if you stay with her, and that was true. But i felt that she had, at the time, an unexplained illness. I felt that it wasnt the right thing to carry on. Honestly, it was so upsetting, because once i got on land, even though i was like feeling some sort of pain, i was like, i want to be on a boat. So in the end, samiya kept in touch with us and it turned out that she had a chest infection. Weve had medical issues before, but nothing quite as serious or what appeared to be as serious as what samiya was going through. After he dropped samiya off, we decided, yeah, lets go, lets carry on to poole. Everyone was a little tired, but everyone kept on trying. The sense of relief now is impossible to quantify. Now that we know that shes safe and shes well, it is such a relief. Conditions started to settle down. It was a nice sea state. The sun was still out. So we go to school, then we come here, we travel england, we get to see views like this. He speaks mandarin oh, my days you keep putting me off with your eyes, fam what . We were motoring along, it was. You know, the sun was starting to go down. I think for 25 years now, ive delivered Geography Field Trips and ill be doing the same again this year at old harry rock, and ive never seen it from that angle before, which is actually why we went slightly too far to the south of it at first. I was able to give them a geography lesson, which i find fascinating. I dont know if they did. Hes got facts about everything. Exhilarating, exciting and adventurous day, with a lot of relief as well. Its fun to set the plan out, go out and achieve your goals. But also it makes you feel free. Youre on the water. You dont have to think about all the stuff, like, back in school, back at home. You just have to focus on the sailing, whats happening right there, right then. Being a teacher, you wonder and constantly think about what the purpose is for doing the job that you do, and that is to prepare young people with the skills to pursue any career that they would like. Much more calm than out in the middle of the english channel. The boys who do it and the girls who do it, they dont let you down, they always give it their all. Because of that, its, i suppose, very much worthwhile. Ok, thats three metres. Two metres. Slightly to starboard. 0k. I feel like sailings a dream. As soon as i came out of hospital, ive been wanting to go back to sailing. Hello there. Friday was a very warm day for april. Temperatures widely reached the high teens and the warmest spots had temperatures a bit higher than that. 21. 5 degrees celsius was recorded at both st james� park and northolt, both in greater london, making it the warmest day of the year so far. We have something of a change in the weather forecast, though, for saturday. Cooler air is going to be arriving across both scotland and Northern Ireland behind this cold front. And thats significant because scotland also recorded its warmest day of 2024 as well on friday 20. 2 degrees celsius in fyvie castle. But across scotland and Northern Ireland, temperatures widely will be dropping by around five or six degrees celsius into saturday. So you will notice that significant change. Right now the weather is quite quiet, though. Weve got a few patches of high cloud around, one or two areas of mist and fog and a few showers coming in across Northern Areas with the winds strengthening slightly. Temperatures as we start saturday morning around 8 to 11 degrees celsius. Were looking at a mild start to the day. Now, a band of rain, a cold front will quickly swing its way into Northern Ireland and scotland. As that moves eastwards, what will follow is blustery showers with some hailstorms mixed in the Winds Gusting up to 50 miles an hour further southwards. Now a patch of rain for Northern England and across wales, otherwise largely dry. Much cooler air across scotland and Northern Ireland arrives through the afternoon, whereas across england and wales its going to be the last of the really warm days. Temperatures, i suspect, will reach around 21 or 22 in the warmest areas of eastern england, with colder air arriving across most parts of england and wales after dark. Well, that takes us into sundays forecast. And sunday is going to be a blustery day for scotland and Northern Ireland. Frequent showers here, some of them with hail and thunder mixed in. There will be a few showers developing through the day across Northern England and wales, but it may well stay largely dry across east anglia and the south of england. Wherever you are, temperatures will be much closer to average, 15 degrees in london. So a big change from the low 20s that well have on saturday, it will feel cooler. On into the start of the new week, monday sees low pressure move in off the atlantic with this cold front diving its way southwards across the country. And thats going to be bringing a spell of rain followed by showers, showery Weather Conditions around for tuesday and for wednesday. But the weather should become drier and a bit warmer towards the end of next week. Bye for now. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Charlie Stayt and naga munchetty. Our Headlines Today us President Joe Biden warns that iran will attack israel sooner rather than later as tensions continue to escalate. We are devoted to the defence of israel. We will support israel. We will help defend israel. And iran will help defend israel. And iran will not succeed. Thank you very labours deputy leader Angela Rayner says she will step down if a Police Investigation finds shes broken electoral law. And good morning from aintree on grand national day. 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