You could hardly find a more hostile environment for a building, surrounded by water and exposed to the full force of whatever the North Sea can throw at it. The old station and slipway at the pier end here at Cromer is beyond repair and its replacement will cost £2.7m. It is being built to take the worst weather imaginable -yet the unexpected could still happen, here as at any other station, saddling the RNLI with a massive and unexpected bill for repairs..