On Saturday evening August 7, 1982, a joint event was held by Beer and District branch and the Axminster Girl Guides Association, which was attended by about 12,000 people and raised about £850 for the lifeboats. There was a camp fire with traditional songs, stalls, sideshows and a barbecue. Then, as darkness fell, 874 lighted 9in square rafts, commemorating the number of lives saved by lifeboats in Lyne Bay during the past decade, were launched on the River Axe at high water to float on the ebb tide towards the sea (see below—a time exposure). The rafts were built by Ron Keech whose wife, Cynthia, is Area Guide Commissioner and comprehensive sea trials were carried out by former RNLI trials officer Roy Harding..