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Although the ILB requires a crew of 3, during the winter months or when the sea is a bit rougher, we tend to get an extra couple of crew kitted up prior to launching. These extras can be a big help with launching by pushing the trolley into the sea, helping crew into the boat if need be and then of course...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-07-2010
Warming up

If at all possible, on cold lumpy days, we try to run the ILB engine for a few minutes to get it warmed up before launching. This gives the helmsman and crew some confidence that when the boat does hit the water and goes beyond the point of no return, that power will be there when it's needed.Of...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-04-2010
First exercise of the year

So, this morning heralded the first exercise of the New Year and decade. Good bye 'noughties' and hello 'teenies'! Once we had all arrived at the boathouse it rapidly became clear that the easterly wind was going to make recovering the Mersey unnecessarily hazardous so it was decided...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-03-2010
EffSeaBeeToo

The exercise was a cold one last night but this did not prevent us from being very productive. We had a couple of observers along for the trip, one whom we already knew from last month. Pretty frequently we are asked to take people out to sea with us in order to help them become acquainted with what...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-17-2009
Sunny spells

It seems like the rain hasn't stopped for months. My daily drive to work involves passing several rivers and each has been beyond the bounds of it's banks for months now. Despite this, Sunday morning heralded a brief moment of sunshine amongst the dark clouds, and both the ILB and one of the...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-08-2009
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
There and back

So there was a quick shout this afternoon to head over to the other side of the bay to check on a kayak which had been reported to be in difficulty. As is quite often the case, it turned out that the boat wasn't actually in difficulty but had apparently been practising self-rescue techniques!Still...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-24-2009
Taking it easy...

Last night's exercise was intended to be a quiet one so that the crew could meet together and plan in detail some of the logistics of lifeboat week. Both boats went to sea but not for a heavy-weight exercise...more an exercise in getting wet and checking that everything was as it should be on the...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2009
Back to base...

As we returned from yesterday's shout, those crew who had been left behind were finishing swapping over our own ILB which had just returned from it's refit. After being offloaded from the truck into the water, it was motored round to our slipway, before being expertly driven back onto it's...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2009
More new winch wire

Dave has been busy once more. He's just sent us all an e-mail to let us know that the ILB winch has just been fitted with a dynex rope the similar (but not purple & a lot smaller) to the ALB one. It is a lot more costly than the old steel ones but hopefully will last a long time as it won't...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2009

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