Quote Durham Giant="Durham Giant"Very brave people.
I have to say even now i find it appalling that many lifeboats are run by volunteers rather than it being a job people should be paid to do. Pretty much the bravest of the brave in civillian life.'"
Did you see the documentary late one night a couple of months ago on the Blyth volunteer lifeboat ?
As far as I could make out it wasn't even part of the RNLI but run by a group of volunteers from a local working mens club, bizarre but true and paid for by a local bloke who made a bit of money in property development, he owns the boat and the volunteers man it and raise money to maintain, house and fuel it - the coastguard are the ones who alert them to emergencies.
Its like we've turned the clock back 200 years.
