COVER PICTURE Si Abbs' new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Kathrinc and Dorothy Burr, pictured recently on exercise, will be named Idler this year. She has a/ready attracted considerable public interest as lite principal attraction at the RNLI's stand at the London International Rout Show in January. Funding of Ihe new lifeboat has been made possible thanks to a generous dona/ion from The Karr Trust. The photograph was taken by George J (iihnottr, of Cantick Head Lighthouse, Longhope, Orkney, who kindly offered it for use in mi: I.IKKBOAT.

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