NCI Prawle Point https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk Eyes along the Coast Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:02:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/site_icon-1-100x100.png NCI Prawle Point https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk 32 32 2025 Spring Fundraiser https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/2025-spring-fundraiser/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:21:30 +0000 https://www.richardpovalltestsite.uk/?p=10376

Prawle Point NCI is one of 60 stations around the coastline of England & Wales working in concert with other search and rescue operations. We are all volunteers and we receive no government funding so we rely on people like you to help us keep our station open and thriving. In order to be part […]]]>

Prawle Point NCI is one of 60 stations around the coastline of England & Wales working in concert with other search and rescue operations. We are all volunteers and we receive no government funding so we rely on people like you to help us keep our station open and thriving. In order to be part of the search and rescue fabric (holding what is called ‘Declared Facility Status’) we have to meet certain minimum standards in terms of the number of hours we operate, the expertise of our volunteers, and keeping our radio and navigation aids up to snuff. It all costs money – around £16,000 each year.

This annual fundraiser is a key component of our varied efforts to bring in that kind of cash each and every year. Can you help us? There are various ways to get involved – and you don’t just have to choose one!

Find out more and book now…

]]> Watchkeeper Spotlight: Sue Jarvis https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/wks-sue-jarvis/ Sat, 09 Nov 2024 13:49:50 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9544

For testing purposes only

]]> September News and a visitation https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/september-news-and-a-visitation/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:08:19 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9413

As we say goodbye to summer 2024 (a rather mixed experience!) we enter September and a new training season for watchkeepers. This month there is no news. Well, that’s never quite true but this month we have produced a newsletter for our watchkeepers only. Look out for our October PQ News in a few weeks’ […]]]>

As we say goodbye to summer 2024 (a rather mixed experience!) we enter September and a new training season for watchkeepers. This month there is no news. Well, that’s never quite true but this month we have produced a newsletter for our watchkeepers only. Look out for our October PQ News in a few weeks’ time.

A week or so ago we had a delegation of locals come to visit the Lookout. They were very impressed with what they say but managed in the process to completely squash our dog water bowl. A new one has been supplied.

]]> 5-day tide and weather information https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/5-day-tide-and-weather-information/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:39:17 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9338

We have now added an additional free service (courtesy of tides.today and UK Hydrographic Office). Tide table information is Crown Copyright and is provided here with permission. Find it here…]]>

We have now added an additional free service (courtesy of tides.today and UK Hydrographic Office). Tide table information is Crown Copyright and is provided here with permission.

Find it here…

]]> August news https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/august-news/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:06:29 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9248

We’ve posted the August newsletter. As it’s August it’s primarily devoted to one item: the handover event of the NCI 30th Anniversary Flag. Read it here]]> We’ve posted the August newsletter. As it’s August it’s primarily devoted to one item: the handover event of the NCI 30th Anniversary Flag. Read it here

]]> July News is here… https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/july-news-is-here/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:33:17 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9164

Our July News is here, with information about the forthcoming 30th Anniversary celebration event in Salcombe on July 9, our latest incident report, and a sneak preview of the Salcombe Field of Light coming to Salcombe later this year. You’re most welcome to join us around 10.00 on July 9 as we send the specially-commissioned […]]]>

Our July News is here, with information about the forthcoming 30th Anniversary celebration event in Salcombe on July 9, our latest incident report, and a sneak preview of the Salcombe Field of Light coming to Salcombe later this year.

You’re most welcome to join us around 10.00 on July 9 as we send the specially-commissioned NCI 30 Flag on its journey east, courtesy of our friends at Britannia Royal Naval College. Check out the newsletter for more information.

]]> 30th anniversary flag on its way https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/30th-anniversary-flag-on-its-way/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:55:52 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9145

The NCI 30th Anniversary Flag is now passing through Wales, heading inexorably South on its way around the coast. Expected to reach us from Rame Head NCI on July 8 ready for redeployment to Froward Point NCI courtesy of Britannia Royal Naval College. We depart Normandy Pontoon at Whitestrand in Salcombe on July 9. Follow […]]]>

The NCI 30th Anniversary Flag is now passing through Wales, heading inexorably South on its way around the coast. Expected to reach us from Rame Head NCI on July 8 ready for redeployment to Froward Point NCI courtesy of Britannia Royal Naval College. We depart Normandy Pontoon at Whitestrand in Salcombe on July 9. Follow this for more details.

Here it is at Llandudno NCI.

]]> June news https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/june-news/ Tue, 28 May 2024 09:09:45 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9057

We have just published our June newsletter which you can find here. It contains early information about our contribution to the national celebrations of NCI’s 30th Anniversary and an invitation to come along to Normandy Pontoon on July 9. Read more…]]> We have just published our June newsletter which you can find here.

It contains early information about our contribution to the national celebrations of NCI’s 30th Anniversary and an invitation to come along to Normandy Pontoon on July 9. Read more…

]]> NCI 30th Anniversary https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/nci30-jul9/ Mon, 27 May 2024 12:41:03 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9042

Why not come and join us in Salcombe as we send the 30th Anniversary NCI flag along its way via our friends at Britannia Royal Naval College. We will gather at 10am at Whitestrand where the specially designed embroidered flag, bearing the names of all 60 National Coastwatch stations, will be presented to the Navy for transport to Dartmouth on two of their Vahanna class vessels. ]]> NCI 30th Anniversary Celebration

In 1994 two Cornish fishermen lost their lives within sight of the recently closed Coastguard Lookout at Bass Point. A group of concerned local people decided that keeping a visual watch along the coast would significantly contribute to marine safety. And so the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) was born.

This summer will see a 2,000+ mile journey of a specially commissioned flag (pictured above) celebrating 30 years of NCI. The 1.5m x 1m flag bears the names of all NCI stations in order of longevity (so Prawle Point appears in the first column, as the 12th station to open and the first beyond the Tamar). 

Locally, the flag arrived from Rame Head on July 8 and on the morning of Tuesday July 9 the flag was duly carried aboard one of Britannia Royal Naval College’s Vahanna transport boats; this boat along with an escort vessel carried the flag on its journey to Dartmouth for handover to the next station, NCI Froward Point. Many thanks to all those who attended the brief handover ceremony on what was a most un-summer like day with murky conditions and the odd bit of mizzle.

The 30th Anniversary celebration has been sponsored by Sirius Insight. After the completion of the flag’s journey (NCI Filey, August 25) it will be received by HRH The Princess Royal and then exhibited at Trinity House in London. Media enquiries to Richard Povall.

]]> We were at Prawle Fair https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/we-were-at-prawle-fair/ Sun, 26 May 2024 16:07:11 +0000 https://www.nci-prawlepoint.org.uk/?p=9018

A beautiful sunny day for another fun-filled Prawle Fair held as usual on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday. Here with (L to R) Martin, Di, Richard and Nick. Thanks to everyone who came and said hello! (and thanks to Anne for the lovely photos)]]> A beautiful sunny day for another fun-filled Prawle Fair held as usual on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday. Here with (L to R) Martin, Di, Richard and Nick. Thanks to everyone who came and said hello! (and thanks to Anne for the lovely photos)

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