Malcolm Wood, second officer of Townsend Thoresen's Baltic Ferry walked 200 miles for the Harwich lifeboat. The sponsored walk from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Whitbv High Light in Yorkshire look II days and raised over il ,000. Malcolm is shown on board the John Fison. Coincidentally, shortly after the photograph was taken, the lifeboat was called out to assist the ferrv after a woman passenger was lost overboard. After an extensive search in gale force conditions the search was called off at nightfall.

photograph by courtesy of Bruce Monahan.