Rob MBM Editor
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As a feature in Motor Boat & Yachting, we're going to spend 24 hours in a liferaft. Would anyone like to join us?
We're doing it as part of Weymouth Lifeboat Week, and will have safety cover from the Weymouth Lifeboat crew and from the Coastal Sea School, which is based on Weymouth quay.
Subject to weather, we go in at 7pm on 31 July, and will be rescued by Weymouth Lifeboat in front of hundreds of cheering Lifeboat Week crowds on the beach, at 7pm on 1 August.
To ensure we live to see another day, but also experience some kind of swell, we'll be anchored in an appropriately safe but exposed part of Weymouth Bay, probably near the quay to begin with, then we're likely to be towed towards the east end of the beach for the final part.
We'll be in a Viking eight man raft, and so far we've got myself, Greg Copp (boat tester), and two local Weymouth RNLI beach lifeguards who are doing it to raise funds for Lifeboat Week.
The idea is to replicate, as much as we can, an abandon ship scenario, and simply see how we cope in a liferaft for that length of time, on the kind of rations and grab bag most skippers keep on board.
Fancy coming along?! Ring me in the office on 0203 148 4647 or email me at rob_peake@ipcmedia.com
Rob
We're doing it as part of Weymouth Lifeboat Week, and will have safety cover from the Weymouth Lifeboat crew and from the Coastal Sea School, which is based on Weymouth quay.
Subject to weather, we go in at 7pm on 31 July, and will be rescued by Weymouth Lifeboat in front of hundreds of cheering Lifeboat Week crowds on the beach, at 7pm on 1 August.
To ensure we live to see another day, but also experience some kind of swell, we'll be anchored in an appropriately safe but exposed part of Weymouth Bay, probably near the quay to begin with, then we're likely to be towed towards the east end of the beach for the final part.
We'll be in a Viking eight man raft, and so far we've got myself, Greg Copp (boat tester), and two local Weymouth RNLI beach lifeguards who are doing it to raise funds for Lifeboat Week.
The idea is to replicate, as much as we can, an abandon ship scenario, and simply see how we cope in a liferaft for that length of time, on the kind of rations and grab bag most skippers keep on board.
Fancy coming along?! Ring me in the office on 0203 148 4647 or email me at rob_peake@ipcmedia.com
Rob
