A few hour’s walk out to Gilkicker Fort on this wet morning and a stop to take a look at Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service.
Gosport Lifeboat Station is a volunteer-operated independent lifeboat station located near the Gilkicker peninsula at Gosport – it operates lifeboat services in the Solent from Portsmouth Harbour to Titchfield Haven. There are 235 Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat stations around the United Kingdom, and there are 65 lifeboat stations which are not owned or managed by the RNLI, GAFIRS is one of these. Like the RNLI, All Lifeboat services work with HM Coastguard their equipment, training, and procedures comply with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s Rescue Boat Code of Practice.
Continued Reflections from my World. 
I wonder how well that boat launching method works during a raging storm? Which, If you think about it is exactly when they are most needed.
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I wonder as well Wayne. Not sure what conditions they leave for the RNLI all-weather boat at Calshot Spit across the river from Titchfield Haven. The Coastguard SAR Helicopter for the Solent and south coast is based just up the road at Lee on Solent.
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