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Six-Year-Old Stuart Tarvet of St.Monans

Six-year-old Stuart Tarvet of St Monans was so keen to help at Anstruther's Lifeboat Day Gala that he dressed up as a collecting box, and collected £20! The Gala attracted over 5,000 people and the firing of a maroon started the first of the day' s events, a parade of fancy-dressed rafts carried on floats through the town to the beach where they were lined up in readiness for the great raft race.

A prize was awarded to the 'Smugglers Inn' for the best dressed float, and the winner of the race was the 'Tartan Tavern' raft. A trophy for the raft with the most sponsors (£650) was awarded to the 'Salutation' bar, and a rescue display by the Anstruther lifeboat The Doctors and a helicopter from RAF Leuchars drew the crowds.

Various fund raising events were taking place on land and in all £4,000 was raised for lifeboat funds that day.

(Photo courtesy ofD C Thomson, Dundee).

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