Portrush Lifeboat still on the rocks!

I note there is no report of injury to the crew and the boat appears still in one piece despite the weather, in fact no great drama. That really shows the quality of the RNLI crews and boats
 
I don't know if this was urban myth or not. When we got our Mersey and we were talking about the new boat, it was said to me, that the RNLI dragged the prototype boat up and down a rocky beach behind the tractor for a day, she survived.

This being important for a carriage launched boat, but I am sure that the Severn goes through similar rigorous testing, (it looks like a Severn in the photo).

I wonder what the maximum lift of a Chinook is?
 
I suspect that dragging over loose rocks is nothing to being lifted & dropped on one lump of rock like will happen at Rathlin overnight.

Can I recommend that anyone who isn't already a Shoreline member should consider joining tomorrow as RNLI will be looking for the best part of £2mill to replace that baby!
 
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Can I recommend that anyone who isn't already a Shoreline member should consider joining tomorrow as RNLI will be looking for the best part of £2mill to replace that baby!

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Especially as the 'self insure'
 
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Can I recommend that anyone who isn't already a Shoreline member should consider joining tomorrow as RNLI will be looking for the best part of £2mill to replace that baby!

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Not me. I joined as offshore member but was inundated with so much junk mail, not to mention unwanted phone calls that I've vowed never to join again. I might make donations when I get round to it, but always anonymously and never as a "member".
 
According to an irish friend, it's badly holed, but not under water yet . He suspects that by the time it's ballooned and dragged off, it'll be quite fecked.
 
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Can I recommend that anyone who isn't already a Shoreline member should consider joining tomorrow as RNLI will be looking for the best part of £2mill to replace that baby!

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Not me. I joined as offshore member but was inundated with so much junk mail, not to mention unwanted phone calls that I've vowed never to join again. I might make donations when I get round to it, but always anonymously and never as a "member".

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I'm astonished! I've been a member for YEARS & not had ANY junk mail I could say came as a result of membership. Perhaps you forgot to tick/ untick a box somewhere.

Most of the stuff I get seems to be for car/house insurance or windows/ stone paint etc. Nothing is ever related to boat stuff. RNLI mag has flyers in it, but then so do all magazines, so no particular problem there.

The key point about Shoreline is that it provides the organisation with a predictable income. And anyone who has ever run a business will understand the importance of that.

But maybe your fear of adverts is just cause for not providing some regular funding. From time to time my customers will use all sorts of "justifications" for not paying me for work done too.
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.......... I joined as offshore member but was inundated with so much junk mail, not to mention unwanted phone calls that I've vowed never to join again..................

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There is an easy and very effective solution to junk mail and cold phone callers. Register at these two sites:
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
Give it a few weeks to take effect. We registered years ago, it works.
 
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But maybe your fear of adverts is just cause for not providing some regular funding. From time to time my customers will use all sorts of "justifications" for not paying me for work done too.


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Although I do admire your persistence, I think you have to be careful not to make a link between shoreline and boat ownership. It is going to take the mentality of the AA/RAC, I pay so I have a right to use. I have been as guilty as the next of ensuring my Greenflag membership is up to date rather than fix that niggly fault before a long trip.

I am not in shoreline, but will normally empty my wallet into the tins at the end of a boat jumble etc. May I still use them, I have to admit, when I was playing LB in the middle of night, I never thought to ask the casualty if they were shorlined up or not?
 
I vaguely seem to remember that the Severn lifeboats are foam cored down to the chine and single skin below that (the Trents are foam cored on the bottom as well). They are laminated with exotic mats that include kevlar (the stuff that is in bullet proof vests).
They are supposed to be significantly stronger than the conventional fibreglass Arun hulls (especially as the Severns have to cope with a service speed of 25 knots, as opposed to 17 or so for the Arun).
Yet I remember seeing a section cut out of an Arun hull in way of one of the shaft logs - it was well over an inch thick of solid GRP.
I wonder how the (only) steel hulled Arun (the former Stornoway lifeboat I think, called Snolda) or any of the steel 44' Waveneys would have coped if they were aground in the same circumstances?
 
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