Ben Russell (14), who attends Queen Elizabeth High School, came out on top of the Royal Yachting Association North East Youth Travellers Series as it ended on home water.
Ben, sailing his Optimist dinghy, beat off challengers from across the region to become the first winner of the competition to hail from Kielder.
It has been a bumper year for the club after it was awared RYA OnBoard status earlier in the summer, an accolade granted to sailing clubs with an excellent track record of youth development.
The Kielder Kestrels then enjoyed success in the RYA Team15 youth windsurfing competition, winning the regional Borderlands League to book a place in the UK Youth Windsurfing Championships at Grafham in Cambridgeshire, where they finished seventh overall.
The action has not stopped yet though and a team of six of the best sailors from Kielder will travel to Oxford on the October 17 to compete in the Eric Twiname Junior Team Racing Competition.
Derwent Reservoir Sailing Club will also take a team down as the North-East take on some of the best junior sailors the UK has to offer.
“I wish all of our regional young sailors well in this new endeavour,” said RYA NE chairman Steve Gibbon.
The final event in the North-East racing calendar is the RYA North East Youth and Junior Championships at Derwent Reservoir on October 24 and 25.
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