SAILINGAREAS
CHANNEL ISLANDS Philip Jeune
channelislands@sailingtoday.co.uk
NEW TAMAR LIFEBOAT
St Helier’s new Tamar class lifeboat arrived
on station to be greeted by a flotilla of other
lifeboats, official vessels and pleasure craft as
well as local RNLI supporters, many of them
FLEET
waving flags and banners.
The £2.7m George Sullivan – named after
LAUNCH
PHOTO PHILIP JEUNE
the late Island resident Major George Langford Jersey’s maritime
Sullivan, MBE MC – was led into the harbour community is mourning the
by the former St Helier lifeboat, the Tyne class sad loss of Clarence ‘Clarrie’
Alexander Coutanche, and the station’s inshore Glendewar, the last surviving
lifeboat, the David Page.
St Helier’s old lifeboat, the Alexander Coutanche, leads
member of the volunteers who
Also in attendance was the States’ tug, the Duke
her replacement, the George Sullivan, into port.
took part in the evacuation of
of Normandy, which provided a suitable backdrop British troops from St Malo in
by firing off her water cannons. design and boasts new safety features including an June 1940.
The Tamar represents the very latest in lifeboat advanced seat design to reduce stress on the backs Mr Glendewar, who was
of the volunteer crew members when they are sea. 94, had served as an active
MARITIME HERO
New onboard computer controls mean remote crew member aboard RFC113,
management of many of the lifeboat’s functions a Fleet Air Arm fast launch
Guernsey has a new maritime hero – 47-year-old and better task sharing amongst the crew. that had been requisitioned for
John Falla who has just taken part in the gruelling
The St Helier Tamar is the third to go on station war service and was to
OSTAR singlehanded race across the Atlantic,
in the southwest area of the RNLI – two are be used in the Island as a
coming 19th overall and sixth in his class. Mr Falla,
already on service at Padstow in Cornwall and rescue vessel for a Fleet Air
who works in the island’s finance centre, took 24
Salcombe in Devon. All the Tamar hulls are Arm training aircraft that
days, 18 hours and 55 minutes to complete the race
from Plymouth to Newport in his Swan 36 Banjaard.
produced at Green Marine in Southampton and was due to be based at
fitted out at Babcock Marine in Plymouth. Jersey Airport.
SOUTH EAST Dick Holness
southeast@sailingtoday.co.uk
CHANNEL CLOSING
SWALE REGATTA
A popular yacht route along the
North Kent coast, a swatchway
The annual Swale Regatta, social aspects of the weekend.
inside the Margate Hook Sand
which involves all the Swale The Ferry House Inn at Harty
off Reculver, may be closing
clubs – Queenborough YC, benefited well from hungry and
up according to a recent Trinity
House survey. Encroachment
Sittingbourne YC, Conyer CC, thirsty crews brought ashore
of the adjacent banks on both
Hollowshore CC, Whitstable by Whitstable Sea Scouts, who
sides of this channel was found
CC and Whitstable YC – is ran a superb ‘trot boat’ service,
and Trinity House warns that “the
designed to be a fun event and and the following evening the
requirement for ongoing marking this year’s regatta was no massed clubs descended on
of this channel is to be closely
exception. A new sponsor in Queenborough YC. After the
monitored”. In the meantime, the
PHOTO DICK HOLNESS
the shape of Peel Ports, parent return race to the East Swale,
two lightbuoys concerned have
24’.007N 001° 12’.050E. Hook company of the Medway the regatta winner was declared
been moved as follows: East Last
Spit SHB move 270° 100m to 51°
harbour authority, helped fund to be Caldera, a Conyer yacht
PHB move 130° 190m to 51°
24’.083N 001° 12’.094E.
the event. skippered by Kevin Granger.
Relaxed racing
UNMANNED
found him safe on the beach at from start lines at
Herne Bay, near to where he Harty Ferry and
A jetski caused consternation had fallen off and been picked Queenborough
when it charged 16 miles across up by another rider. involved more than
the Thames Estuary without its The jetski, which should have 40 yachts of all
rider. The Thames barge Greta been disabled by its kill-cord, shapes and sizes.
spotted it underway near the was later reported heading For many of the
Kentish Flats windfarm and NW by a container ship near crews it would be
PHOTO DICK HOLNESS
promptly reported it to Thames the Shivering Sands Towers the only ‘racing’
Coastguard, who quickly and eventually fetched up on event of the year,
scrambled Whitstable lifeboat the beach at Shoeburyness, the majority
to search for the rider. However, fortunately causing no damage turning out mainly
Kevin Granger receives the Swale Regatta trophy.
the local CG rescue team soon or injury on the way. to enjoy the
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