Around 45 members gathered at the Regal on March 15th to hear Andrew Arthur, Station Manager, and Chris Winzar, Cox’n Salcombe RNLI Lifeboat, talk about their work. Parts of the evening were amusing, parts impressive and Chris’ comments about RNLI crews’ contacts with refugees in small boats, moving. There were many questions, all of which were fully answered, and the evening finished around 9pm. The proceeds of the raffle and the auction of a bottle of malt whisky were donated to RNLI Salcombe, thanks to all of you that attended for being so generous. Two photos of the evening are at the end of this Newsletter.
Dave Halsall, proprietor of Singing Paddles, has paddled canoes on waters around the world and will give an illustrated talk about his adventures on April 19th at the Regal, 7pm for 7.30.
On May 24th., National Coastwatch Institution, Prawle Point, will host a visit to their lookout by KEBC members. The visit will start at 1730 and we will be shown their display room and the lookout in small groups. The visit needs to be finished by 1945, so it is probably wise to have arrived before 1900. Please give me some idea of your ETA if it’s after 1830. As sunset is not until about 2130 this should be a pleasant summers’ evening out, perhaps followed by some refreshment in East Prawle.
There are now 10 boats registered to take part in the power boat cruise to Dartmouth on Friday 23rd. June and a number of members have offered their services to crew. If you have spare space for more crew, if you don’t have a boat but are willing to crew or if you have a boat and haven’t yet booked, please contact the organiser, Ian Slade on 07789 727253 or sladeian@icloud.com
The first week of Boatwatch is passing peacefully, hopefully this will continue. The codes for the gates on the Kingsbridge pontoons are due to change on April 6th, boat owners are being notified individually and Boatwatch leaders will be notified through their WhatsApp group.
I hope to see you all in two weeks’ time.
Tony Watson.
