Lifeboat spoilsports ruined our North Sea SHAG
THEY’RE the heroes of the sea – volunteers who brave mountainous waves to rescue those in peril…
But Gary Pearce and Violet Williams were not singing the RNLI seafarers’ praises last summer.
Because the randy pair were enjoying a BONK on a rowing boat off the Rhyl coast when burly lifeboatmen turned up at the scene – just as Gary was on the vinegar strokes!
Gary, of Birkenhead, recalled: “We’d hired a boat and got a bit frisky – it must have been the sea air that put us in the mood.
“Thing is, Violet is a bit mouthy once she’s aroused and some well- meaning person on the beach must have thought her sex yelps were cries of distress from someone in peril on the sea.
“Of course, we knew nothing about this and were bang at it. Next thing I know, the siren from the inshore lifeboat sounds and there’s this Captain Birdseye figure looking down at us.
“I was past the point of no return by now, so I lost my mess up Violet with a lifeboatman looking on!
“To say it ruined the moment is an understatement.”
Violet added: “I could have died of shame! I’ll never go back to
Rhyl as long as I live.
“The lifeboat crew were very good about it and explained there was a mix- up. I did hear the coxswain chuckle, ‘ My, my, my. They’re going to laugh at this back at the lifeboat station’.”
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution celebrated the 200th anniversary of its founding last week with a service of thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey, where the Archbishop of Canterbury praised staff as “models for everyone”.
Crews, lifeguards and other representatives from RNLI teams across the UK gathered on Monday to mark the occasion at the same time the organisation’s founding papers were originally signed back in 1824.