Nine businessmen, all friends and members of South Caernarfon Yacht Club (and fondly known locally as 'The fat boys'), decided to have a bash in aid of the RNL1 at the end of the 1999 sailing season. A dinner dance with auctions, raffles and perhaps, a little arm-twisting realised a whopping £9,000 in one night.

The timing coincided perfectly with the arrival on station of two new outboard engines for the inshore lifeboat at a cost of exactly £9,000 - so now Abersoch station crew and VIPs say that their lifeboat is powered by 'The fat boys'!.