RYA OnBoard gets over a quarter of a million kids sailing and windsurf



11:22 PM Tue 7 Dec 2010 GMT
'On Board links with the TeamOrigin professional racing team' .
Over the last five years well over a quarter of a million youngsters have been enjoying sailing and windsurfing thanks to a pioneering scheme from the RYA called OnBoard. 'When we launched the programme back in 2005 we set ourselves the target of introducing 500,000 youngsters to sailing over a 10 year period. Now we are half way through it's fantastic to see how many youngsters are getting out on the water and that the programme is well on target', commented Vicky Lenz, RYA OnBoard manager, who has been involved with the project since the outset and has seen the ...


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