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Old 07 June 2016, 06:26   #41
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When I took mine apart I found rnli calendars and a neoprene hood and about 14p in loose change

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Old 07 June 2016, 06:48   #42
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Old 10 June 2016, 12:50   #43
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RNLI D Class show and tell.

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Put my old Y boat on the local canal the other evening without engine , did about 2miles rowing it .!! Just realised its on the wrong thread 🙄
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Put my old Y boat on the local canal the other evening without engine , did about 2miles rowing it .!! Just realised its on the wrong thread 🙄
Aye, and I'm glade it is made me flash back to one I was a boy.
Nice oarmanship.

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Just got back from the boat yard to find my D class has yet another puncture. She will have to come home for repair ☹️


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Old 04 July 2016, 08:47   #46
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Great 999 day at Eastbourne yesterday - the RNLI did a superb rescue mock up for the public with the Tamar and D working together. Ending with a pretty fast beaching.
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This was recently on Ebay...

Some how we've ended up giving it a home.
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Oh... It's D-486 by the way.
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I've also been given this poor thing, So far I've not even collected it...

No number visible on the rotten, already repaired Transom, and no other distinguishing marks but somewhere in the mid to late D-300s
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This was recently on Ebay...

Some how we've ended up giving it a home.
You still got this Spongie? If so how you getting on?
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Old 31 March 2022, 13:22   #52
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You still got this Spongie? If so how you getting on?
Dragging this old subject up as I feel that it deserves some love, and I'm quite certain a few D-Class owners are around here!


Well... as you know, but others don't. I didn't keep that one long, She was donated to our charity to use for doing RYA powerboat training, however we felt it wasn't suitable for the role and needed too much work to get ready for the task. Which would detract from our ALB refurbishment for a similar role. We agreed to send her off to an independent lifeboat station to continue her lifesaving career as a swiftwater/flood response vessel.

I for a brief while had an XP-Class (Avon Rover 280) which was bought off here, but alas, as many boats that come to me do... it ended up being sold far too quickly.

However recently some one mentioning no names but sounds like HocherGaz nigh on forced me to purchase another D-Class... None other than the very one that I was crew on, from brand new.

The conversation went like this:

him "D-714..."
me "Shut up and take my money"

As I say... FORCED me to purchase.

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Along with her came a bare stripped POD which I need to overhaul and fit out to my own spec.

Unfortunately when these are sold now the RNLI internally class them as "Scrap" therefore, the RNLI strip many reusable parts off. so as yet I've got a few bits and bobs I need to source most likely through Gocherhaz as and when he gets them in separately.

As and when I get stuff done, I'll perhaps pop some more detailed posts on.
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Fantastic, the king of SIBs there is no doubt.
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Old 07 December 2022, 21:26   #54
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Not much has really changed, I've got most of the parts just in the wrong places.

The floor, which I've had to make myself from plywood rather than the original GRP composite RNLI version (they don't sell these) is in bits having been epoxy coated but is awaiting a coat of grey paint to finish off.

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I now have a proper ex RNLI RM trailers road trailer for her, the pod has some of the bits yet is missing others...



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That's awesome, you've got the space there many of us dream of. Y's and D's - nothing else comes close.
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It's not in the pics but I have a mostly dead Zodiac Y-Class bundled up under the D too.
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The floor, which I've had to make myself from plywood rather than the original GRP composite RNLI version (they don't sell these) is in bits having been epoxy coated but is awaiting a coat of grey paint to finish off.
When I went round the small boat centre in East Cowes in 2001, they were refurbishing the then plywood floors by removing them, getting rid of all the paint and non-slip stuff, repairing any defects in the plywood and then re-painting etc.

It was all very laudable and similar to what us DIY people might do but it made no commercial sense.

Going round again pre Covid, they were much more aware of where they were spending money.

I don't know if they are still doing the tours but it is definitely worth a visit.
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