'Dry Boat Simulator' wins design award for student

7:29 PM Sat 16 Oct 2010 GMT

'Bleddyn Mon pictured with his designs for the dry sailing simulator' .

An engineering student has won a design award for a 'dry land boat simulator' to teach beginners to learn to sail without getting wet. 'It's to teach children how to sail on dry land,' explained Welsh sailor Bleddyn M?n, who when he's not studying and trying out for the next Olympics, coaches for Anglesey's Red Wharf Bay Sailing Club at Traeth Bychan on the northern coastline of Wales each summer. 'They're usually taught on a boat on the beach, but nothing moves, so I designed a boat which acts like it does on the sea. When they're learning to run ...

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by BBC Northwestwales/Sail-World