While the RNLI are having their new boathouse built at St Justinian they need to keep their new Tamar lifeboat on the water. If winds exceed gale force from the SW or NW then St Justinians is not a suitable site for such a large vessel so we have allowed the RNLI to put a temporary mooring on the island side at The Waterings where we usually have our boats moored in the summer. The island provides a good degree of shelter in these wind directions and we are more than happy to keep an eye on her for the crew. In an emergency the old Severn class lifeboat is still in full service and is housed in the current boathouse.
St Davids RNLI Tamar class lifeboat on her moorning in the shelter of Ramsey
Steady progress is being made on the new lifeboat station at St Justinians
The forecast for tomorrow (new year's day) is SW force 9 so at lunchtime today Coxswain Dai John and the St Davids RNLI crew brought the Tamar over. They traveled back across the Sound in the inflatable D-class boat but not before paying us a flying visit with some post!
Our boat operator Thousand Islands Expeditions kindly donated a GoPro camera to us recently so we thought it was a good opportunity to try it out! See video below (apologies for the one sided conversation you can hear, I wasn't talking to myself I promise!). As you can see the sea was starting to rough up already but the lifeboat is now safely moored out of harms way for a few days. Watch our for a cameo appearance by our sheepdog Dewi!
We would like to say happy new year to the RNLI crew at St Davids, Thousand Islands Expeditions, Derek Rees (our delivery contractor), all our wonderful volunteers, all the visitors who came to Ramsey in 2014 and readers of this blog.
Blwyddyn newydd dda! See you in 2015!