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Boxing Day

As defined by Wikipedia is: The traditional recorded celebration of Boxing Day has long included giving money and other gifts to charitable institutions, the needy and people in service positions. I wonder, then, if the RNLI sees an increase in giving at this time of year?During today's boxing day...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-26-2009
November rain

So there was me thinking that the rain might have disappeared with November. Fat chance, today, down our way has been as wet as ever, perhaps even more so.Suffering with a cold I decided to stay ashore and do some training in the boathouse with some of our newer crewmembers.After both boats had gone...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-02-2009
Jackstay

Look closely at the photo and you will notice that both Becky and Steve are clipped onto the boat. Becky is attached using her harness line to the jackstay which runs along the starboard (and of course port) side of the wheelhouse of the boat. Meanwhile Steve is clipped to a similar jackstay which...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-28-2009
Searching

To be honest, conditions for visual searching on Tuesday night were pretty poor. I've read various reports of how extreme the weather was online, some seemed realistic...others a bit over the top. Either way, chances of finding what you are looking for is drastically reduced. Luckily it is beginning...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-25-2009
Sleepless night

So, following on from a late night at the AGM, we were woken by our pagers at about 1.20am this morning and shortly afterwards launched the ALB to join a search under way in the Poole bay area looking for a group of people, believed to be Eastern European, who were thought to have jumped off the back...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2009
That sinking feeling!

So the Mersey was out again yesterday, called this time to a small yacht which had been spotted adrift and seemingly unmanned.Sure enough there was no one aboard so we sorted that by putting Gav on.Un-accustomed to such burdens, the poor unfortunate vessel promptly sank!It would seem that the vessel...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2009
Assessments

Last nights exercise was once more a game of two halves. To begin with the ALB launched at 1800 with an assessor onboard and ran through a number of CoBT assessments. I understand that these all went well and that many of our crew are now closer to being fully competent in all aspects of their training...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-15-2009
The day of the Dragon

Powerboat racing is fast, exciting and not without it's fair share of danger. Today we were called out to assist with the rescue and recovery of the crew of one of the boats taking part in the Classic Cowes Torquay Cowes offshore race. It would seem that they had experienced a problem with their...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2009
My afternoon...

Well, where do I start...we had two shouts today. The first was somewhere about a mile south of Anvil Point light and involved collecting a dinghy which had become filled with water and snapped it's painter. Please don't ask me why we were asked to deal with this 'emergency' as I really...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2009
M'aidez

Pronounced 'May day', is a french term meaning 'Help me'. It is derived from the French verb 'aider' which means 'to help'. A mayday situation is one in which a vessel, aircraft, vehicle, or person is in grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance. In maritime...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2009

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