Lyme Regis RNLI crew plan 77mile walk to launch 200th year
Crew members of the RNLI lifeboat in Lyme Regis are launching their programme of events during the charity's 200th anniversary year with a fundraising walk along the town's Marine Parade.
The walk, on February 11th, will see teams of four setting out from the lifeboat station on the Cobb to walk a combined total of 200 laps of the Parade to the Millennium Clock at Cobb Gate and back. Four teams of four will take about ten minutes each for one lap and they reckon the event will take about eight hours to complete, starting at 8am. One of the organisers, senior helm Tim Edwards, said: "Originally the idea was for one person to do the walk, then we realised it could take about 30 hours so we decided on teams of four with each walker's lap counting towards the total." Total distance of the walk is an estimated 77 miles.
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