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now on bbc news, the travel show: city kids on the high seas. 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. let's keep behind, let's 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, "what's sailing? "you're just on a boat."

but once i qualified and now i'm a sailing instructor, they realise that i'm actually getting somewhere. it's 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. i'll probably use the helm one... sometimes it's hard for me to articulate myself. and when you're 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. don't 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 wasn't 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 because usually that's when we leave from school to go to the trips. so it's quite a busy day because it's 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. it's a bit difficult, i but as you go along, you kind of get the hang of it. like, sometimes, we'll| do homework together. and then go from the decimal point three, and then go backwards. - no, backwards. backward, go backwards. this way. so it's all about, like, _ balancing it, but it's 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 don't sort of let that be a barrier to participation in 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. i'd just be running around school, not focused, not having a goal in mind. but now i'm focused, determined to do well because 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 weren't doing the sport. so we're excited for the weekend. we've got a good ten knots wind. it's against us all the way, but that's good. so at least we get lots of tacking practice in down the solent. it's not every time you get to sail with these lot. sometimes it's... most of the time, i'm with these three. what could go wrong is probably kyle and jessye not doing theirjob - with the navigating. no, that's with them. they're 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. it's hot, man. they chuckle. i started off doing outdoor education and i bought two trailers, 50 mountain bikes and two minibuses with a credit card. and at the time, because i was in my early to mid 20s, that seemed like a good idea. like this. then there's 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. ok, start the engine and then go back and recover the casualty. pretty windy out there. so we'll put a red reefer line on. once that's all settled, _ we'll put the jib on and then we'll 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 won't need gloves because they don't really do very much on the back, do they? kyle, you don't need gloves, do you, because you're hard? yeah? before, when ijust started, i would use them, but now i'm just used to it, so ijust use my bare hands. unlike this one. no, the only reason i'm using it is because my finger�*s injured. my finger�*s injured. no excuses. you know, you know. you know me. there's no excuses. |myjob on the boat is navigationl

and main trim and overall charge of the people in front, doing the bow. - i'll be able to explain _ to the person who's 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. you're basically the boss. you tell everyone what to do, what's happening, because you get to oversee everything as you're at the back of the boat. it makes you just feel so powerful and strong. when i was 13, i'd done the fastnet, which is 600 miles. then i'd done all the qualifiers for that, which is another 600 miles. so by 13, i'd definitely sailed 1,200 miles. and then from then, i don't know. when we first started sailing, we were looking, we didn't 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 in. so we found a yacht race, it was called the arrow trophy. we tried to enter it and we were told that we couldn't 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 we've always just overcome those challenges. ease it. 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 we're here. so we're going over here. the green is there. when i'm in london, usually, when i'm sleeping, i'm just hearing builders, dogs, barking, sirens. it's just so loud. but here, it's 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. who's, who's, erm. .. who's often in detention, or maybe just... it's mostly on that side. he's often in detention.

why? yeah, why, felipe? because you don't do your homework, and you say, "oh, i was at sailing." no, but that's... it's not an excuse, - but itjust happens, so... so we're 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 didn't 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 we're doing from cowes down to here. so that's a big part of what we do, isn't it? that's like more than a... that's well more than a third of the whole journey. do you want to go back and get that? it wouldn't be on your... indistinct. i'd give their sailing nine out of ten. 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 it's a good experience. yeah. to be away from home i for a long period of time. you know, ifeel like that's the part that's going to hit. i feel like everything else is normal. so, kyle, how was your sleep? erm... i don't know if you can really tell, but i was sick before, _ and now i'm even sicker. it was cold. teacher gives instructions. we got the main sheet up and the jib up, - and it was pretty rough conditions, like 20 knots, wind against tide. .

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. | let's keep behind, let's 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 doesn't capsize. what's the wind speed, kyle? 22, 23 knots. 23 knots. i think there was a point where i was holding on to kyle's 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 we're sailing along, past hearst castle, and we're 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 reallyjust a straightforward sail straight across to poole. samiya tapped me on the shoulder to say that she doesn't feel particularly well. we didn't think too much of it. we just thought, "maybe it's 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 you're just stuck on a boat you don't know what to do, ifeel like it raises some panic. mr holt and nick, they had to go down and call the radio for a pan—pan. it's not a mayday, but it's 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." we'd 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 didn't want to run aground. you know, kyle's a day skipper, jessie's a day skipper as well. they're 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. it's just a very impressive thing to be able to do when you're17 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 they're good. the coastguard is brilliant. the first thing is a sense of relief that you know that she's 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 wasn't 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. we've 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, let's go, let's 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 she's safe and she's 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, i've delivered geography field trips and i'll be doing the same again this year at old harry rock, and i've 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 don't know if they did. he's got facts about everything. ..exhilarating, exciting and adventurous day, with a lot of relief as well.

..exhilarating, exciting and adventurous day, with a lot of relief as well. it's fun to set the plan out, go out and achieve your goals. but also it makes you feel free. you're on the water. you don't have to think about all the stuff, like, back in school, back at home. you just have to focus on the sailing, what's 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 don't let you down, they always give it their all. because of that, it's, i suppose, very much worthwhile. ok, that's three metres. two metres. slightly to starboard. 0k.

i feel like sailing's a dream. as soon as i came out of hospital, i've been wanting to go back to sailing.

hello. storm isha looks to be one of the strongest storms of the 23/24 season. it is likely to lead to transport disruption as well as probably damaged power networks. here is the rapidly deepening area of low pressure travelling beneath a powerful atlantic jet stream, and it's this combination that rapidly strengthens this area of low pressure. severe gales will be widespread, and so will a threat of disruption. relatively mild and forcefully, pa rt forcefully, part good chunk of england and wales come out quite quickly outbreaks of rain moving

into northern ireland, this wet and increasingly windy weather will spread in. the rain will be heavy, combined with melting snow and thawing of the lying snow, we are likely to see some flooding concerns. a mild day, thames 11—13. it gets extremely windy from then on to sunday evening, sunday night and into the early hours of monday morning. across parts of south—west england, we are likely to seek gusts reaching around 60—70 mph, maybe 80 mph in the north—west of wales, maybe northern ireland. the strongest wind from this system will be further north in scotland where gusts could reach 85 man's power, may be stronger across parts of northern and western scotland. the amber warning northern and western scotland. the amberwarning in northern and western scotland. the amber warning in scotland is at the very top end of the impacts column, so if the likelihood increases, that means a red warning may follow. in other ways, means a red warning may follow. in otherways, pay means a red warning may follow. in other ways, pay close attention to

the weather warnings and watch for weather updates. sunday night, a zone of strong wind working through the south—east coast of england, likely disrupting the ferries. monday, blustery conditions, wind slow to calm down, a day of sunny spells and showers, shower is turning to snow across highest scottish mountains. i called a feeling day, temperatures around 7-8 c feeling day, temperatures around 7—8 c four northern areas, nine or ten towards east anglia and the south of england. tuesday, another area of low pressure comes off the atlantic. this one bringing wet and windy weather our way. the rainfall totals are going to begin to mount up, so again we could be looking at areas of localised flooding, a bit of snow over the scottish mountains that looks to be pretty high up, in any case matter able follow, so any snow in scotland bill turned back to rain as we see temperatures pushing as high as 14—15, are very mild day. wednesday, still some showers to

start the day across northern areas, then a range of high pressure building from the west, most of us will have a quieter day with increasingly dry weather and increasingly dry weather and increasing amounts of sunshine as well. temperatures on the mild side, 10-13 c. well. temperatures on the mild side, 10—13 c. beyond that as we look at the forecast through thursday, more rain to come into the north—west and high—pressure tries to build across parts of the south. we will have a north—west, south—east battle zone across the uk with a good part of england and wales, the weather becoming dry and settled as we look at the forecast of the next weekend, still bits and pieces of rain affecting the north—west at times. in the short—term, please stay over the latest warnings for person—mac, it looks like being particularly nasty storm.

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