Swanage Lifeboats latest plan to improve stats.........

[runswick2000]

We are having a pretty quiet year with few heroics. Therefor at last nights management meeting we decided to take matters into our own hands. What do you think? (link to Lifeboat Scrapbook!)

On a slightly more serious note, has anyone ever tried this and, more importantly, can anyone direct me towards a suitable design that a complete hacker like me could build in an afternoon!

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Try this: 2-minute website

 

[cliff]

Here are a few "one sheet" plans to get you started

http://www.gsahv.pp.fi/
http://www.simplicityboats.com/OSchallengeresults.html
http://www3.sympatico.ca/herbert.mcleod/skiff.htm
http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/gsahv/#XX1
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[aitchw]

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.......and we ask that you arrange to have it collected from the area by the Tourist Information Centre on the seafront ASAP.

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Do the Tourist Information people have lots of free transport then or will they be charging? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[runswick2000]

Well spotted! Should obviously read: from the area next to the TIC............

 

[jonjo]

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We are having a pretty quiet year with few heroics.

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My first thought was that’s strange given the appalling weather, but I suppose the summer is so bad leisure water users have decided to stay at home?

 

[starboard]

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We are having a pretty quiet year with few heroics.

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Surely that then is a good thing....Unless of course you are looking for heroics??????.....maybe all the boaty folk are learning, through the good words posted on this forum I hope!!

A Lifeboat Inspector once asked me where would the best place to see the lifeboat.....................his answer was back in the boathouse or on its mooring........simple really, if its there its not out saving folk because folk don't need saving!!

Paul.

 

[runswick2000]

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Surely that then is a good thing....

Paul.

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Absolutely right Paul. Obviously I did join the crew to take part in rescues, however, with a wife and two young children I have no desperate desire to be involved in anything heroic...........

I like your inspectors pearl of wisdom, quite right!

John

 

[Slow_boat]

Excellent idea.

I thought the latest method of improving stats might have been to claim the three folk who were found on the beach having paddled their inflatable back against the wind as 'casualties' who had been 'rescued'.

I hope I was wrong in that thought.

 

[runswick2000]

I'm not biting!

 

[starboard]

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Excellent idea.

I thought the latest method of improving stats might have been to claim the three folk who were found on the beach having paddled their inflatable back against the wind as 'casualties' who had been 'rescued'.

I hope I was wrong in that thought.

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Take this on board for your RNLI stats........ Troon lifeboat gets a callout...in days gone by with only the offshore boat to launch off it goes and does the job....therefore one launch towards the stats........nowadays with an offshore boat and an ILB the pagers go and both boats always launch.....therfore the RNLI stats are doubled as far as Troon is concerned..........When I was stationed there we always averaged about 35 launches per year .....I wonder what the launches are now per year.......is it really doubled?????????Please dont get me going on this subject, all I ask is someone from the RNLI to explain WHY they are obviously so keen to show this vast increase in launches reflecting on maybe a drop in standars of the sailing freternity???????????

Paul

 

[runswick2000]

Paul,

We don't really get excited about statistics here in Swanage.

I can see where you are coming from regarding the RNLI (and there is a distinction isn't there between THE RNLI and individual stations?), I guess they like to talk things up, not I wouldn't have thought to suggest a drop in standards but rather as a misguided attempt to justify the need for our services (they hardly need justifying do they?!)

When we count what we have done at the end of the year we do count up how many times each boat has launched and add them together (which as you suggest is almost double accounting!) We also count up the number of incidents we attend. This is the figure that really matters to us. I suppose a bit like when I look at the stats for my blog..........I look at discrete hits rather than page loads.

By the way, I saw Chris haw yesterday down at the boathouse..........rather ironically he had just fallen over on his yacht and knocked a tooth out!

All the best

John

 

[starboard]

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By the way, I saw Chris haw yesterday down at the boathouse..........rather ironically he had just fallen over on his yacht and knocked a tooth out!

All the best

John

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I guess he is the right man to fix that problem then!....typical dentist!!

Paul.

 

[pennycar9]

I would imagine that if you were to take the Thames boats Launches out of the equation, there may be a few surprises.

Southwold ILB went after a blow up beach toy thingy today. a bit of resource waste I think but all adds up to the stats.