Hi people, as you've probably guessed my name is Dave.

I've been on the crew for almost six years this summer and still loving every moment of it. I joined at the age of 14 and came up through the junior crew system, becoming active full crew at 18. I run the website for the boat and end up taking most of the photos as well. Last summer was my first active season and I got on four of the 7 shouts we had during the summer months.

Bit of history on our boat:

Following an incident in 1971, resulting in a drowning and near drowning of a man and his wife whilst sailing half a mile off the beach at Mundesley, the Mundesley Parish Council called a meeting to discuss the feasibility of establishing an Inshore Lifeboat at Mundesley. The RNLI and Coastguard were approached but were unable to help due to heavy commitments in other areas.

It was therefore decided to set up an independent rescue unit, funded and manned from within the village.Further meetings followed resulting in the formation of "The Mundesley Volunteer Inshore Lifeboat Service Ltd". - a Limited Company and registered charity. Being a Limited Company a board of directors was duly elected - chosen from a broad section of the community including proposed crew members. The volunteer crew to take care of the day to day running of the boat and the directors to take care of the policy making and financial arrangements.In the spring of 1972, a Zodiac inflatable was borrowed from a local businessman and established in a temporary boathouse on the promenade at the East end of the village.Extensive fund raising then followed during that summer which resulted in the purchase of a 4M Avon Sea Rider semi- rigid inflatable wholly owned by the Service. A wooden site hut was donated by a Bacton Gas Site contractor and converted into a boathouse.Since then the Service has gone from strength to strength and has taken part in the rescue of some 100 people in trouble.

So thats about it for the moment I shall post more when some more highly exciting stuff happens....