Coastwatch News 2014 | Roseland Online

Coastwatch News – December 2014 – Malcolm Craven

I Don’t Trust This New Fangled Machinery Watching from the Lookout the other day I saw the Richard Cox Scott, our local lifeboat on her way back to Falmouth. A magnificent, powerful,...

Coastwatch News – November 2014 – Malcolm Craven

Nelson Never Had Problems Like This! It was a fantastic day, one of those which only come two or three times a year. The sun was out, a light wind from the...

Coastwatch News – October 2014 – Malcolm Craven

Shout ‘Help’ And Someone Will Come It seems our safety and care are very well served on this coast. We have people to watch over us and people to come and rescue...

Coastwatch News – September 2014 – Malcolm Craven

Fair Sets The Wind For France! The first part of this season has been very quiet but suddenly it has gone mad. Within about three weeks we have had a dog over...

CoastWatch News – August 2014 – Malcolm Craven

What a Spectacle It Will Be Between 28th and 31st August this year the world’s finest spectacle of sail will take place at Falmouth – the tall ships will gather for a Race.. We...

CoastWatch News – June 2014 – Malcolm Craven

Well, We’re Still in Business Well, we have just had our annual D.F.S. assessment. That stands for Declared Facility Status and what it means in layman’s terms is that we can be counted as part...

CoastWatch News – May 2014 – Malcolm Craven

A New Season Begins Well, we have opened up for another season. We are now able to man the Lookout for an extra day each week, Wednesdays, thanks to the magnificent response...

Coastwatch News – April 2014 – Malcolm Craven

When I first started writing these articles, Mark at Roseland Online raised the question of copyright of the pictures I use in each edition. Many of these are mine but I get...

Coastwatch News – March 2014 – Malcolm Craven

‘t’ain’t No Good Fighting The Tide, My Son I bought our first boat in 1968 and, apart from short periods, have had one ever since. When I started we had no money...

Coastwatch News – February 2014 – Malcolm Craven

Our Position is 50’11.10n by 5’35.80w I write this on the anniversary of the disaster in 1981 of the Penlee Lifeboat ‘Solomon Browne’. Sixteen people died in the attempted rescue of the...