Daredevil fundraisers are needed to take part in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s Dracula Drop bungee jump during Whitby Gothic Weekend.
The event, on Saturday 24 April, has become a popular event in the lifeboat charity’s fundraising calendar and takes place over Whitby Harbour, with the picturesque town and abbey as its backdrop.
RNLI Events Manager Lisa Rutter said: ‘The Dracula Drop has been running for four years now during the Gothic Weekend and goes from strength to strength. It really is a unique experience and a great fundraising event for the RNLI which over the past three years has raised £15,000 for our charity. We only have 60 places for the Dracula Drop so anyone who would like to take part should sign up as soon as possible.’
£1700.00 Raised For The RNLI
How Cold was it up there today ?…………
I went up last night to avoid the snow that was forecast for the wee hours of this morning. Arriving at 11.00pm I soon got my head down in the car to catch some Z’zzzzzz.
At around 1AM another van arrived next to me and [...]
The Queen Mary II sailed past Whitby this afternoon and sounded her horns in Memory of Roy Weatherill who died in June. Ex member of the Whitby lifeboat Roy, was a personal friend of the Queen Marys skipper Bernard Warner whoose parents live locally at Sandsend. A report from the Whitby Gazette website says [...]
Our forum members are reporting the grounding of the Peterhead trawler Honeyborne – PD950 off the coast of Gristhorpe near Scarborough. To read more please visit our forum at the following link
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=11286.0
Welsh Kayak Fishing Festival – Welsh Kayak Fishing Championship
The Welsh Kayak Fishing Championship will be held in Tywyn on the 13th Sept 2009.
The event will be a species hunt competition with the winners being crowned the First Ever Welsh Kayak FishingChampion.
All profit to RNLI
Fly fishing, Lure fishing and Any Method categories.
Fantastic Prizes
Individual entries only. £10 [...]
Whitby RNLI hosts Dutch lifeboat on maiden voyage
Date: 15/06/2009
Author: Alison Levett, Divisional Media Relations Manager
Whitby’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew will be welcoming counterparts from the Netherlands on Thursday (18 June) when they call at the Yorkshire port on their way to the Shetland Islands.
The new lifeboat from the Dutch fishing port Scheveningen is [...]
(quote) The RNLI fundraiser brought in just over £1,000 which WCSA chairman Malc Pitman handed over to RNLI representative Jason Ebbison. The match was won by Tony Bridge who fished on Mick Leonards Sea Urchin 2, with a nice cod that tipped the scales at 13lb exactly. Best placed Junior was Jay Kilpatrick with a ling of [...]
Thieves target RNLI lifeguard equipment at Roker beach
Date: 20/05/2009
Author: Deborah Heaton-Caffin, Lifeguard Press Officer
RNLI mobile lifeguard unit (Credit RNLI)
Thieves have targeted a mobile lifeguard unit (MLU) provided for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s lifeguard service at Roker beach in Sunderland.
The MLU had only been sited on Marine Walk for three days when the thieves struck [...]
Soccer star’s family chip in for the RNLI
Date: 18/05/2009
Author: Dave Cocks, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
Family and friends of Middlesbrough FC and England Under-21s star David Wheater have given the RNLI in his home town a boost while cheering him and the team on.
Over the football season, David has given his keenest supporters the use [...]
Deep Harmony Fishing boat with fouled propeller
Date: 11/05/2009
Author: Lee Jackson, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer
Staithes and Whitby RNLI lifeboats were launched on Monday morning after a Whitby fishing boat got its propeller and rudder fouled in a rope off Kettleness near Runswick Bay.
The skipper of ‘Deep Harmony’ called Humber Coastguard to report that the 30 [...]
