Wick Lifeboat "The Roy Barker II"
Well done to everyone who gave us your support during our collection at Tesco we raised £1362.23. The winner of our Radio controlled Boat was H Macdonald of Watten. And a big thank you to Tesco's for allowing us to use their store for out collection.  A recent training night.  09 Feb 2012PRESENTATION OF CHEQUE TO RNLI
High School Pupils Raise Money For RNLI  Wick High School pupils raised a £180.00 for Wick RNLI, at their weekly cafe.
They held a “Brew for the Crew” event in their Cafe within Wick High School. The day started off extremely busy and remained so for the rest of the event. It was so popular that there were requests for the Cafe to stay open for longer. After opening at 10am and closing the doors at 12.40pm they had raised an amazing £182 and sold over £80 worth of RNLI merchandise. The pupils started their cafe project in October last year. It was the brain child of Miss Donna Swanson who works within the pupil support department. The idea behind the cafe was to build the confidence of the pupils by taking on the role as member of staff rather than a pupil. Their duties include setting up the cafe for example washing table clothes, cleaning the room, setting tables. Pupils also prepare the tasty and healthy food within in the school. Then its uniforms on, notepads out and it’s off to work to serve the staff, pupils and on occasion special guests. Donna Swanson says “I feel the pupils are really benefiting from learning a little of what it’s like to work in the real world. At the same time they are improving their numeracy, literacy, social and communication skills but most of all are gaining confidence.”
The staff of the ‘Wickers Cafe’ then made their way down to visit the Lifeboat crew and to present the money.
They were met by Coxswain Ian Cormack and crew member Karl McFarquhar and treated to a VIP tour of the lifeboat shed and the lifeboat and an unforgettable light display.
Grant Sutherland chief brewer of the ‘Wicker Cafe’ says “I am glad we raised money for the lifeboat, it was good fun and when I am older I would like to be a volunteer.” Lifeboat aids Creel Boat Wick RNLI lifeboat responded to a Mayday call from the local fishing vessel, Star of Staxigoe on Tuesday 12th July. The vessel, which was single manned, fouled its propeller whilst fishing close to rocks, near Noss Head north of Wick, and was in danger of running aground. Another local vessel the “Vital Spark 11” also heard the call for assistance and arrived on scene a few minutes before the lifeboat and managed to get a tow aboard the casualty to hold the vessel cleat of the rocks. The tow was then passed to the lifeboat and the vessel was towed to its home harbour at Staxigoe, arriving safely at 3:10pm. The lifeboat then returned to its base in Wick Harbour where it was quickly made ready for service once more.
 Motor Cruiser rescued at Pentland Skerries Wick RNLI lifeboat responded to a call from help from the 32 ft. Motor Cruiser, Fair Morn, on Monday 2nd May. The vessel, which had three persons on board, was on passage from Kirkwall to Wick when it suffered engine failure very close to the Pentland Skerries, 14 miles north of Wick.
The fishing vessel Sulu Sea was in the vicinity and it also responded to the call for help and initially took the casualty in tow until the arrival of the lifeboat. Upon arrival on scene the tow was then taken over by the RNLI vessel and the casualty was taken to Wick, in freshening weather conditions, arriving at Wick Marina at 4:15pm after a three hour tow.  Lifeboat aids Fishing Vessel Wick RNLI lifeboat responded to a call from help from the Keiss fishing vessel, Golden Dawn, on Thursday 28th April. The vessel, which had two of a crew, had been fishing two miles off the Caithness coast to the south of Duncansbay Head when it suffered engine failure. As there were no other vessels in the area to help, the skipper called up the Coastguard for assistance. The lifeboat was requested to launch and left Wick harbour on service at 1009 and reached the casualty, approx 10 miles north of Wick, by 1040. Once on scene a tow was established and the stricken vessel was towed to its home port of Keiss, arriving there at 1130. The lifeboat then returned to its base in Wick Harbour where it was quickly made ready for service once more.  Retired doctor successfully completes London marathon raising funds for the RNLI and Wick Lifeboat. Dr Joiner presents Anne Dunnett, Lord Lieutenant of Caithness with a bouquet of flowers after drawing the raffle he organised as part of his fundraising for the RNLI, a list of the winners can be found here https://sites.google.com/site/wicklifeboat02/raffle-prizes Wick Lifeboat was called out on Monday night 07/03/2011 to a creel boat which had suffered engine failure 1/2 mile South of Wick Harbour. The lifeboat found the boat at anchor, fixed a tow and took the boat with it's two crew back to Wick harbour. New! http://www.youtube.com/user/officialrnli 
    The yacht put out a mayday call after taking on water 13 miles off the coast, Wick Lifeboat reached the scene to find the yacht in dificulties, seas at the time were confused with a 3-4 meters swell. Ian Cormack Coxswain of Wick Lifeboat recieves a cheque for £3,700 from the Helmsdale fundraisers at thier harbour day
 Bill and Ros Bruce, have undertaken a challenging sponsored cycle ride from Land’s End to John’O’Groats to raise £1,410 for the RNLI.
Lifeboat Operations Manager Bruce Tait said: ‘This was a tremendous achievement, and we thank Bill and Ros for the generous donation.’ Their journey of 900 miles took them 14 days it total with an average of 65 miles covered a day, including one leg of 94 miles. Their story began back in February when they had decided that to undertake the adventure and begin the serious training which would see them through the trip. They encountered dry weather through most of the trip with head winds all the way North until they entered Caithness. Bill & Ros would like to thank everyone who gave them their support.
New photo's of crew on crew page
  John Robertson and Mark Cormack receive their long service medals from divisional inspector for Scotland Waveney Crooke
 Have you visited Caithness SeaCoast http://www.caithness-seacoast.co.uk/ they offer some fantastic trips along the coast of Caithness why not give them a visit!
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