As the club provides its' own safety boat crews - probably like most other clubs - we get to mess about with boats on the reservoir for a day.
Can't fault the day at all. Starting with intro from Bob, The Commodore, onto Alan, the Membership Secretary, to give us a tour of the various bits and pieces we need to know the location of, and onto the boats.
Big ribs, small ribs and fibreglass Dory dragged out, prepared and pushed into the water and off we go; S's, U's and circles, forwards and backwards around buoys - great fun.
Lunch in the wet room while Bob goes over radio procedure and then back onto the water.
Recovering M.O.B.'s, righting dinghys, with and without shrouds, and of course, the tired windsurfer.
Boats dragged out of the water - some more keen to help than others - and into the clubhouse for 4:30.
A tiring but very enjoyable day. Thanks to Bob, Alan, Karen and Peter for giving up their time.
So, any unmanned boats or plastic barrels in trouble in our reservoir will be in safe hands come my safety boat duty! I'm sure that waving an RYA Level 1 |Powerboat certificate will do the job.
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