Oilies and the RNLI

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You've seen that picture of a lifeboatman/women in full kit with a list of the cost of each item? Sure you have. Well after you send them some more cash have another look at that list. Trousers at £63 and jacket at £72. This for a set of oilies that protect our lifeboat crews in the worst of weather, winter and summer. The RNLI equip their crews with the best kit that can be found, don't they? So it ought to be good enough for us yotties then, eh?
So why can't I buy some? Not only that why is the stuff tha I CAN buy five times the price?

IanW


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perhaps the rnli could mark up the prices by a tenner and flog them to us. make them a few quid.

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I thought they used musto gear (I know what they do use is definitely breatheable). I will talk to someone I know who has just started working for the RNLI

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Perhaps bulk buying!
On the subject of oilies - the fashion colours of the last few seasons seem to be going towards greys and blues - I would have thought bad colours for man - sorry - person overboard. Do we have to rely on reflective strips these days.

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I happen to have a pair

of RNLI oilskin trousers.

I did not nick them off a lifeboat; I bought them in the Xui Xi market in Beijing. It was only when I got them home that I noticed the logo and decided that they should be kept as a spare pair.

They appear to be regular Musto Ocean non-breathable, which is what I thought I was buying and what my friendly stall holder who knows a man who knows a man who knows the foreman thought he was selling me. Possibly slightly better patches, but I think they are just the same.

I concluded that if the RNLI don't need Gore Tex, neither do I.

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If that price IS cheap for whatever they wear, maybe it's part of a sponsorship deal by Musto whoever.. Bit of a giveaway on price breaks though? Cost? Whoops!

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Re: No, no

You never hear their customers complain
On the other hand I hear Squirrel fur makes good coffin lining!

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Reflective patches are a life saver especially at night .When a search light passes over them it is like a torch flashing back at you - the searcher.
I.ve been retired from the RNLI for just over 4 years now and they had just started trying out breathables a couple of years before that, but to my knowledge not by crews but by lifeboat inspectors.
Dave

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Re: No, no

There is no future in undertaking

it's a dying trade

la la la


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Re: No, no

I don't know - some people are dying to get into it.

There's quite a living to be had out of such an undertaking.

John

OK c'est pas grave...

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Specification?

Their kit needs to be waterproof for relatively short periods at a time. They are probably not used in the same way as a long term cruiser who must wear them day in day out for weeks on end.

John

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