An Isle of Wight man will travel from Guernsey to the Isle of Wight, marking 50 years since an Islander rowed the same route in a homemade boat.
This weekend, starting at Guernsey's St Peter Port RNLI Station, Bob White will travel by overnight ferry to Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat Station, completing challenges on the way.
In 1972, on May 20 and 21, aged just 27, carpenter Dave Howlett left St Peter Port bound for the Isle of Wight. In his 11ft homemade dinghy, he covered over 90 miles in 38 hours, including crossing the English Channel's busy shipping lanes.
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As the Isle of Wight County Press reported at the time, exhausted and sore, conditions forced Dave to finish the final four miles in a support boat, but he made it and so did his cargo - special stamps which were franked on both islands and sold to collectors.
When Bob makes his journey, he will also be carrying stamps, collected from a post office in Guernsey on Saturday morning.
Bob will also travel from castle to castle - between Guernsey's Castle Cornet and our own Carisbrooke Castle.
On Friday, May 20, he will catch a Condor ferry from St. Peter Port, overnight to Portsmouth, a Wightlink FastCat to Ryde, and an Island Line train, arriving back at Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat Station on Saturday, May 21.
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