4th January 2022
Local business man and his swimming team raise money for RNLI Aldeburgh lifeboat station. Rob Mabey, a retired local business man and his swimming ‘team’, raised an amazing £1120 for RNLI Aldeburgh lifeboat station. They did this by swimming in the North Sea every day during December.
They are a group of around 20 friends who regularly meet to swim together on the Suffolk coast at Thorpeness. Last year during lockdown they swam through the winter in pairs and then as a group. They managed 120 consecutive days and swam in the river when the sea was too fierce. The coldest day being 0.5 degrees centigrade in the river, with a wind chill of -10 degrees centigrade.
Rob said “This December we swam every day to raise funds for our beloved local lifeboat at Aldeburgh. We have a close relationship with the crew (not having required their assistance fortunately) and would like to give them all the support we can.”
The cold water swimming team presented their cheque to Steve Saint, Coxswain of Aldeburgh lifeboat station on New Year’s day, who said “A huge thank you to everyone involved and the support that you have given to our lifeboat station.”