wooslehunter
Well-Known Member
......... or watching a 100 or so other nutters doing the same?
As usual there's a swim at the Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service slip at Stokes Bay.
Swimmers run down en-mass, most in fancy dress at around 11:00 and then exit anywhere bewteen 5 secs and a few minutes later. India Juliet, the coasty rescue helecopter normally does a winching excercise with the lifeboat before the swim.
This is a great opportunity to blow out the cobwebs (& hangovers) and if you feel the urge, to put a donation in the tin. These guys are an independant lifeboat and receieve no funding from the RNLI. They have to raise every penny themselves and are in the process of building a new boat.
Just a few stats about one of the busiest lifeboat stations in the UK and Repulic of Ireland:
In the past 14 years the service has attended 1542 incidents.
To date in 2006, the service has attended 124 incidents.
In July of this year the service attended 35 incidents.
This is one of the busiest lifeboat stations anywhere in the country and is entirely self financing. Take a look here & please come along and support it.
As usual there's a swim at the Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service slip at Stokes Bay.
Swimmers run down en-mass, most in fancy dress at around 11:00 and then exit anywhere bewteen 5 secs and a few minutes later. India Juliet, the coasty rescue helecopter normally does a winching excercise with the lifeboat before the swim.
This is a great opportunity to blow out the cobwebs (& hangovers) and if you feel the urge, to put a donation in the tin. These guys are an independant lifeboat and receieve no funding from the RNLI. They have to raise every penny themselves and are in the process of building a new boat.
Just a few stats about one of the busiest lifeboat stations in the UK and Repulic of Ireland:
In the past 14 years the service has attended 1542 incidents.
To date in 2006, the service has attended 124 incidents.
In July of this year the service attended 35 incidents.
This is one of the busiest lifeboat stations anywhere in the country and is entirely self financing. Take a look here & please come along and support it.
