Sea rescue
- 3 January 2012 14:31145346this was mentioned on another thread, looks like all has ended well.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/january/3/rescue_mission.aspx - 3 January 2012 20:32145427once again sterling work from our lifeboat people meant that only 1 person had any injuries though sea sickness took its toll.
hardly surprising.
didn't catch this chaps name but i have met him a few years ago when he was giving a tour of the lifeboat station.
last name begins with a c if i remember correctly
no doubt we will get a press release from martin, - 3 January 2012 21:58145444He is J.Clapham, Station mechanic and now a Coxwain as well
Keeps politics to myself - 3 January 2012 22:53145450that's the chap helen, i remember him telling us that he was the only paid crewman and that when anything even slightly went amiss there was a lifeboat full of volunteer crewmen looking daggers at him.
- 4 January 2012 11:39145513There is a video now online of the rescue
[URL][/URL]Been nice knowing you :) - 4 January 2012 16:07145551that is spectacular but why was a training yacht out in those conditions, surely they would have been warned of the storm well in advance by listening to their radio?
what a job by our lifeboat crews though. - 4 January 2012 20:47145599Spoke this morning with Tony Hawkins he said, the Guys on the yacht should have known better than to try to attempt sailing it to a boat show knowing that the weather yesterday was going to be horrendous, the lifeboat chaps got it safely into Ramsgate harbour but it took all day.
