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Record April weather keeps south west RNLI lifesavers busy The hottest April in 100 years* proved demanding for RNLI lifeboat volunteers and lifeguards in the south west** in 2011, with August remaining the region’s busiest month of the year. Annual statistics published today (Tuesday 7 February) show that RNLI lifeboat crews in the region...
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The volunteer team at Weymouth RNLI lifeboat station held a station open day on Saturday 28 January as part of the charity’s national SOS fundraising day. Visitors were able to have a conducted tour of both the town’s lifeboats, Ernest andMabel, the Severn class all-weather lifeboat and Phyl Clare III, the Atlantic 75 inshore lifeboat and...
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Sunsail Racing has announced a new Medal Racing Programme running from spring to autumn next year. The programme will be held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy from March to June and September to October to celebrate the elite sailors who have competed from these waters. Sailors will test their mettle against...
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Sunsail Racing has announced a new Medal Racing Programme running from spring to autumn next year. The programme will be held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy from March to June and September to October to celebrate the elite sailors who have competed from these waters. Sailors will test their mettle against...
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Sailors Kate Macgregor, Annie Lush and Lucy Macgregor are from Poole Three Dorset Olympic sailors have helped marked the start of building work on a viewing tower at Weymouth seafront ahead of London 2012. Poole match racing trio Lucy Macgregor, Kate Macgregor and Annie Lush used commemorative spades to symbolically overturn soil...
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Swanage Lifeboat Station is running a campaign to raise the money needed to buy the crew new lifejackets. The station will use the RNLI’s annual SOS day in January to help collect the funds needed for the lifejackets, which are due to be rolled out in 2012. On Saturday 28 January 2012, the volunteer lifeboat crew at Swanage will be holding...
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Chief Executive of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA), John Tweed, will address some of the world’s leading lights in yacht racing at the 2011 World Yacht Racing Forum and Yacht Racing Design & Technology Symposium this month. Mr Tweed is amongst the highly distinguished international speaker panel invited to Estoril, Portugal...
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The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) and TracTrac, the leaders in live sports tracking, are pleased to announce that they have signed a collaboration agreement and they will be working closely together. Event organisers at the WPNSA will now have the option to access pay as you go tracking infrastructure which will...
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The government says its proposals will modernise the service Several UK coastguard centres previously earmarked for closure have been given a reprieve – but eight will still go, with a loss of 159 jobs. Both Shetland and Stornoway will remain in operation – a change to original plans which would have seen...
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Booking visitor berthing and anchorage in Weymouth for the sailing events of the London 2012 games are now open. All berths and anchorages between 16 July and 9 September 2012 must be pre booked. To avoid disappointment please book early. The first phase of applications are welcome until 12 December 2011. Over the last 18 months...
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