00:00Well, I haven't prepared anything, but I'm very honoured to be standing here and to receive these awards.
00:10I first came to Tenby in 1966, and I've already started to sail in a mirror dinghy, which I built in my dining room.
00:22So, much to, very grateful to my wife at the time, very understanding. We didn't buy a dining room furniture, we bought a mirror dinghy kit.
00:35But then I got this post in Greenhill School, and the headmaster had a heron dinghy, and he asked, would I like to get a bit of a sailing club going in the school?
00:52Well, we did. After a few years, we had a few mirror dinghies. We had six or seven, and started the junior section.
01:04This was run by the school at the time, but after a few years, legislation required that everyone had to have certificates of competence, and it had to be run.
01:19It couldn't be run by the school. There weren't enough teachers there with the necessary experience.
01:26So, we moved on to the sailing club, and it started then, the junior section started to be run by the sailing club.
01:39And a nice, really good team has built up over the years, and although I'm getting this award now, if it wasn't for all the people that have been around me and Terry,
01:52with all the necessary skills from cooking and fitting out boats, fitting out the sailing boats, they all need to be seaworthy and safe.
02:08And there's a nice, big team of skilful, experienced members doing this.
02:15And it's nice, in the last couple of years, we've actually got a young team starting up.
02:22And we're very grateful, and we may even have to be able to bow out very soon, and hand over everything to them.
02:30But, thanks for this honour, and I mustn't forget Terry.
02:36He does so much behind the scenes, and in front, in the kitchen.
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