Southampton Boat Show, September 13 to 18, got away to a good start on the first day with the presentation by Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of three cheques: £500 from Cobramold Ltd, to mark the building of the 2,000th Leisure class yacht (Mr Taylor himself owns No. 16), together with £250 from ICI Ltd and £25 from Fibreglass Ltd, who supply Cobramold with raw material.

Overall takings of the RNLI stand, manned throughout by Southampton branch and guild members, amounted to £3,854.75; there were souvenirs, Christmas cards, Melaware provided through Poole guild and a draw with a cruise as first prize. 212 Shoreline members were enrolled during the week, bringing in around £1,500..