Sextant Management Services Ltd: trading as Norfolk Powerboating and trainingafloat.com

C.2009.2010

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NORFOLK POWERBOATING

 

RYA Coastal & Inland Powerboat Training Centre

Own Boat Tuition

ICC

                                                                     Tel: 01263 576768

Lowestoft, Suffolk: Norfolk Broads: Wisbech Cambs.

Professional, Relaxed

Instruction for

Your

Kind of Boating

FREE ON ALL OUR COURSES:

BOOKS, LOGBOOKS, CERTIFICATES, USE OF LIFEJACKETS,

WATER/WIND RESISTANT SUITS

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“Constance of  Blakeney” was  our flagship until  December 2009. An ex RNLI Watson 42 Lifeboat, originally named  “Dorothy and Philip Constant”  she was exhibited at the Earls Court Boat Show in 1963, going from there to  Shoreham where she served until 1981. She then went north to Oban  after which she was in the RNLI reserve fleet until 1988. Her service number - ON967 is still our  email address.

 

Regretfully our requirements of a Training Boat gradually outgrew Constance - while an amazing sea boat even her biggest admirers would admit she was a little lacking in creature comforts.  Ocean Pirate fulfils all our needs and more, and we decided to find a new owner for Constance.  We are delighted that  (after managing to fend off those who wished to “modernise” her) she has new owners who not only appreciate her for what she is, but will be using her regularly to take visitors to Orkney to see Puffins and other native wildlife on islands close to South Ronaldsay.  

 

We are sad to see her go, but delighted that she has a real working future.

 

You can find out more about her new home here.

While at Shoreham she was launched 187 times, and saved 122 lives.

Perhaps her greatest claim to fame was when on Jan 21st 1980 she went to the assistance of the ‘Athina B’, a 3,500 ton vessel, off Shoreham Harbour.  Crippled in stormy seas the Athina could not get into the harbour so the then “Dorothy” went out three times.  Firstly rescuing the captain’s wife and two children, then going back for a young French girl (where the lifeboat was nearly thrown on to the Athina’s deck by waves) and finally returning for 11 more crew.

"Constance of Blakeney"

“Constance” on her mooring 2008

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