Major Mick’s tincredible charity row
A RETIRED Army major who rowed to the Isle of Wight in a tin boat for charity said the journey couldn’t have been better.
Michael Stanley, known as Major Mick, set off in the homemade “Tintanic” yesterday, making his way across the Solent from Hurst Castle in Lymington.
The 81-year-old has raised more than £8,000 and rowed 44 out of a planned 100 miles so far this year for Children on the Edge, a charity helping Ukrainian refugees crossing the border to Moldova and Romania.
Mr Stanley, who served in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards for 35 years, said: “I just felt that if I could raise a few pounds for them, it’s a drop in the ocean but it’s something rather than nothing.”