Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island. He joined the lifeboat crew in August 1974 having previously been connected with the Hayling Island Sea Rescue and Research Organisation. Frank was awarded a chairman's letter in 1978, a bronze medal in 1980 for the rescue of the crew of four from the yacht Fitz's Flyer in a south westerly gale and a very rough sea on December 14, 1980; and a bar to his bronze medal in 1981 when he and fellow crew members Roderick James and Graham Raines rescued eight people, landed three people, helped two yachts and saved two sailboards on September 19, 1981. Roderick James was awarded a silver medal for his part in these services. Frank was born within sight of the sea at Hayling Island and learned to sail as a child in Chichester Harbour, he is now a keen sailboarder. He also owns a rigid inflatable boat which he uses, when not on duty for the RNLI, as a rescue boat for the sailing clubs in the area. Frank works in London for a firm of stockbrokers and commutes to the City every day. He says: 'the air at Hayling gives me afresh start to the day'..