Trinity House yachting cadetship Bursary features on H20 Show

Last Friday's H20 Show from radio solent featured UKSA's Ciaran Rogers in a short interview about the Trinity House Yachting Cadetship. The H20 Show, which broadcast on friday evenings is also available as a podcast for you to download and listen to on your Mp3 Player

Also covered in this podcast are the RS Tera Nationals, The Cumberland Regatta & heavy weather powerboating this week. Also Dan Dytch on the mini-transat, the Thunder tour, RAF yacht club, ABP Pilots and a review of the Round the Island race. Hosted by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Shirley Robertson and Geoff Holt, the show has a huge following, and if you haven't come across it before we urge you to subscribe in itunes. Get links to subscribe from the BBC here


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Great offers for Cowes Week from the UKSA

If you're attending Cowes Week and are looking for activities to keep the children occupied, the UKSA can help. Every day from 31st July - 7th August, the leading maritime training provider will be offering day sailing courses for just £49 per person.

Based at their headquarters in the heart of Cowes, the cost of the course includes a packed lunch and a choice of exciting watersports activities, including sailing, team building games, team challenges and a whole host of fun, instructor-led activities. 

Children will be fully supervised from 8.30am through to 5pm, and anyone aged between eight and sixteen is able to take part. Places on these sought-after courses are limited, so early booking is recommended to ensure children have the opportunity to get out on the water.

For further information regarding children's day sailing courses please contact Alix Berry on 01983 203034.

UKSA building facelift

A few weeks back we showed you the new sign in Arctic Road sporting our new branding.  We can now share with you the new look of UKSA from the River Medina. Plus, Whirlwind is now out of refit and sporting her new branding. The Maintenance team where just testing the new sails today, so we grabbed a shot while we could and have posted for you here.  We hope you like the new branding, and please look out for it if you drop by this summer:-)

The New face of UKSA ( below)

Whirlwind gets a make over ( Below)

British Keelboat Academy star in 2010 Round the Island Video

This just came in, and we had to share it with you.  Film gives you an insight into this years round the island race. The BKA took part in the race  to help raise funds for BKA activities.  If you didn't get the chance to take part in this years race, this gives you a taste of what you missed. Check out the short interview with our very own Luke McCarthy at the end of the piece.

New wireless internet boosts speed and coverage at UKSA

The UKSA has a new wireless internet connection around the main site plus new charges for UKSA student internet access which will come into place from the 8^th June onwards. 

The new wireless connection covers:

• Lister conference rooms
• Lister decking
• The bar
• The front of the main building including the teachers rooms in accommodation blocks (Britannia, Endeavour, etc)
• The jetty's ( great news if you use our marina facilities
• A new boosted Victory accommodation block connection
  
  

Changes to the UKSA student internet access:
Apart from the PC's in the cyber cafe which will remain a free connection, all other internet connections will be chargeable including the cyber café wireless. By charging for the service we will be able to offer a much broader wireless coverage and give users a significant boost in connection speeds which prior to this development have been very slow during peak use periods.

Q. What does this mean
A. Anyone in range of UKSA can connect and get an internet connection from UKSA.

Q. Can people connect for free?
A. Apart from using the existing PC's in the Cyber Cafe, No.  All internet connection for students and visitors will be chargeable - both wireless and wired connections.  Including existing Wired and Wireless Victory and Lister accommodation connections.  Every free connection given out will cost UKSA £6 for credit charges - so we want to avoid this where possible.

Q. Is the internet filtered?
A. Yes.  The internet connection is filtered to stop inappropriate use. 

Q. What does this Wireless service cost?

The internet connection prices will be -

2 hours - £4.95

12 hours - £6.95

Up to 1 month - £10.00

(As a comparison BT Openzone wireless would cost £29.00 for a month’s use).

If you are only here for a  week, we would recommend the "Up to 1 month" option - for £10 – to cover the week.

Connection time will be available to buy online - once a connection is purchased it can be used on 1 computer wherever a connection exists on site.

UKSA unveils new signage

It has been a while since we unveiled our new branding. Our plan to gradually replace and renew branded items around site is still ongoing but it reached a high point today with the unveiling of a new site sign at our main entrance on Arctic Road earlier today. 

If you are coming to UKSA over the next few weeks please look out for it and let us know what you think.  Next on the list is the big logo on the side of our building which is a bit of a landmark on the Medina.  Expect to see some dramatic changes to that late next week together with a re-brand of our Challenge 67 yacht Whirlwind who is due out of refit at the same time. Exciting times...

But for now... here's what to look out for...