nortada
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If it didn’t comeback it could resolve any possible ageist problems.How about going out in the other slightly bigger rubber dinghy with a crew over 55 years old.

If it didn’t comeback it could resolve any possible ageist problems.How about going out in the other slightly bigger rubber dinghy with a crew over 55 years old.
From experience trying to tow keel a boat with a dinghy is not easy. One solution is to moor the dinghy alongside and use it as the motive power whilst the casualty provides steerage but this is not practical with any sea running.Fancy putting off to the Outer Gabbard to pull a boat off in the gathering gloom and a rising wind in a rubber dinghy that is kept in a shed the size of an ISO container?
No? Nor me.
I suppose the answer is in the name, Inshore. The Outer Gabbard is hardly inshore so the Clacton or Harwich boat would attend.
“In rough conditions what is the maximum number of people that can be safely carried”
I’m a bit late to this and haven’t read all eight pages but…………
IMHO the decision by RNLI management makes sense but their handling of the volunteers is absolutely sh*t. - not for the first time!
Do they have an HR department? If so sack them.
Volunteers are a nightmare to manage in any organisation. Could they have done it better? Perhaps. But I’ve worked in similar scale “institutions” when a “unit” goes rogue (sometime that’s the reason for closure, sometime it’s the threat of closure that drives it) and the emotional energy invested in trying to resolve things amicably is rarely obvious to outside observers. Often the volunteers don’t realise that even if they have invested their entire life in an organisation they don’t own it.I’m a bit late to this and haven’t read all eight pages but…………
IMHO the decision by RNLI management makes sense but their handling of the volunteers is absolutely sh*t. - not for the first time!
Do they have an HR department? If so sack them.
I was at the meeting. It was just to tell the story of what had happened. A big issue was that a local lady resident had provided the legacy for the lifeboat (a couple of million pounds) apparently on the condition that it was to be the Walton lifeboat. The fact that her wishes have not been respected has upset people. It was mentioned that other lifeboat stations have had similar events eg. New Brighton. Last weekend Trevor Halls (the last cox of Walton lifeboat and owner of Halls Boatyard) told me that there was no lifeboat coverage on the East Coast for the weekend.
Juan Twothree, you seem to defend the RNLI's actions re Walton - how do they justify not using the old lady's legacy as being for the Walton lifeboat?
Hi Juan, Welcome back to the discussion.Of course I would support the legacy being used for the Walton lifeboat.
But where do you suggest they put it?
At Titchmarsh. It was there a large % anyway. It would then be for filling her legacy.
From local knowledge and observation, the Walton Lifeboat could operate at all states of the tide from Titchmarsh and the Twizzle and the reaction time for a 25kn+ vessel from Titchmarsh would be as good as from the end of the pier, with the need to transfer to the ‘big boat’ in often treacherous conditions.At Titchmarsh. It was there a large % anyway. It would then be for filling her legacy.
Clearly your knowledge of Titchmarsh is inferior to mine.Titchmarsh is totally impractical. It takes quite a while for the boat to reach the open sea, and even when it does, it's only two miles from Harwich Lifeboat station. So if time were of the essence, it would be far easier and quicker just to send Harwich.
So Walton Lifeboat would do hardly any calls, which is not only demotivating for the crew, but also a waste of money, given that an ALB needs at least one full time staff member to maintain it.
A big issue was that a local lady resident had provided the legacy for the lifeboat (a couple of million pounds) apparently on the condition that it was to be the Walton lifeboat. The fact that her wishes have not been respected has upset people.
I rather suspect this has nothing to do with ‘a badly written Will’.What would you propose they do? There is no Walton Lifeboat Station any more so how can her wishes possibly be respected? Should they spend £5 million on reopening and running a Lifeboat station in perpetuity to claim the £2m? (£5 million is made up, but you get the point.)
The problem here seems to be a badly written will, not the RNLI.
Google tells me this:
If a condition precedent is not met then it will be seen to have failed, with the beneficiary receiving no benefit at all. The gift will then fall into the residue of the Will or pass under the rules of intestacy.
You'd hope that the Solicitor would have catered for this eventuality and added "or in the event of closure the next nearest station." but they obviously didn't.