Row, Row, Row your Boat
In December 2020 a trio of intrepid rowers will embark on the longest and toughest row of their lives (to date).
They are Sandra Squire, Helen Hogan and Kate Palmer, all members of the Kings Lynn Coastal Rowing Club who will be taking part in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge www.taliskerwhiskyatlanticchallenge.com
In order to take part in this mammoth event a serious amount of training will be necessary. To this end the trio ably assisted by Carol Noding, Tim Hogan, Bob Panrucker, Karen Nicklin and photographer Pete Jousiffe set out on Saturday 20 April, in their St Ayles Skiff, the ‘Lynn Rewet’ to row from Kings Lynn and visit all the lifeboat stations along the coast as far as Great Yarmouth, presenting Easter Eggs to all the stations along the way.
As you will appreciate, all coastal rowing is governed by the winds and the tides and timing
is therefore of the essence. The team was seriously hampered at the outset by a 45 minute delay with the arrival into The Great Ouse of a container ship. This put their timing all awry which meant that they arrived at Old Hunstanton later than planned and as the tide was on the turn. As they departed from Old Hunstanton they were met with the incoming tide and an easterly wind of about 15- 20 knots and, as they were not making any headway, it was decreed that, with the wind being from that quarter for the proposed duration of the row over the Easter weekend, that it would not be possible to complete the row in the allotted time.
However, the KLCRC members were determined not to disappoint the RNLI stations they had planned to visit and took it upon themselves to journey by road to all the Lifeboat Stations between Hunstanton and Great Yarmouth to deliver their Easter wishes and chocolates aplenty.
DJ bows out with one final performance
The crew were obviously very disappointed not
A DJ who survived a near death experience bowed out with one final performance in Cromer. London DJ Madhatter AKA Paul Wellings, who used to write for the NME and played at Ibiza Superclubs like Pacha and Ministry Of Sound, played a SKA event to 100 people at Cromer Social Club with a SKA night in a final farewell after suffering a bad fall two months ago.
We at Sheringham RNLI are very grateful for their best wishes and gifts and wish them well in their endeavours to row across the Atlantic Ocean in December next year.
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What has come from this weekend, is a deeper understanding of the work each station undertakes, how invaluable it is and how much support it requires to keep those stations open. We are completely in awe of the fabulous lifeboat crews at all of the stations and are now working on plans to get them involved with some rows around the coast.”
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He said “I wanted to repay the loyalty of Cromer Social Club and deliver the gig I had to cancel with them after my accident. I've had a great DJ career and achieved all I wanted to achieve but for health reasons I had to say enough was enough and hang up my headphones. But it's been one nutty ride with some seriously heavy rhythms”.
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to complete the journey but were very grateful for the input from the RNLI, especially Hunstanton RNLI and Skipper Sandra Squire said “Throughout the next three days, we continued to visit all of Norfolk’s lifeboat stations on schedule. We have spent a great deal of time talking to the crews, learning about their stations and the work they do and of course, delivering Easter Eggs to them!
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Cromer Times Issue 565 11th May 2019