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The UK Sailing Academy, acting in conjunction with the Boards Magazine Advisory Committee, presented Nick Morwood with the UKSA Bronze Award for Excellence on 22nd January 1997. This award is part of a programme of sponsorship designed to support British sailors and help them to achieve peak performance in their sport.
David Green, Director of the UKSA, said in his citation "The Award has been granted to you in recognition of your recent success and for your Windsurfing campaign in 1997. We believe and have been advised that you show great potential and determination, therefore, we are delighted to award this money to you, to assist you in your training, travel expenses and equipment".
The UK Sailing Academy is a spectacularly well-equipped training centre at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, sponsored by the Lister Trust. Originally designed to train Olympic Class sailors when it was the National Sailing Centre, it now boasts a 250 bed hotel, 8 lecture rooms, a gymnasium and indoor swimming pool, as well as all the sailing equipment.
This equipment ranges from yachts and dingies to kayaks ,dragon boats and canoes. The windsurfers comprise IMCO One designs, Mistral Competitions, and Tiga Alohas, Rebels and Calypsos, as well as short boards.
The Isle of Wight is an ideal location for sailing tuition. UKSA windsurfers have the advantage of 360 degrees of wind and wave conditions, all readily accessible from Cowes using the UKSA's mobile windsurfing units.
Nick says " The UKSA really has been outstandingly generous in providing me with the Bronze Award, without it I would not have been able to sustain my windsurfing campaign this year."
"I am going to the UKSA in February as my first official training session for the National Aloha Squad, and I am really looking forward to checking out their facilities. And let's hope there's plenty of wind!"
Click on the UKSA logo below to visit their web site, where you will find details of all the training courses offered, together with a guided tour of their facilities including all the 230 sailing craft on offer.
