A DEVOTED duo have visited lifeboat stations across Dwyfor and Meirionnydd as they travel around the UK in a race against the clock.

Belinda and James Richardson, a retired couple from London, visited Barmouth Lifeboat Station on Monday 18 September in their Porsche 911 on their way around Britain raising funds for the RNLI.

They have been fervent supporters of the RNLI since owning an inflatable on the Thames over 20 years ago.

They are driving around the British Isles and Ireland in their luxury sports car, visiting all 238 RNLI lifeboat stations within 911 hours and hope to raise £238 per lifeboat station making a total of £56,644.

They set off from Teddington RNLI lifeboat station at 9.11am on Monday, 23 August and are aiming to finish their journey at Tower RNLI, London on Sunday, 30 September at 8.11am.

At each station they ask the crew to tie any type of marine knot in a one metre length of thin blue rope.

The Barmouth crew’s was a ‘Bowline on a Bight’ which will finally adorn a three metre high map of the British Isles with each knot indicating its station.

Donations to the RNLI 911 Challenge can be made online at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rnli-911challenge More details of the RNLI Challenge can be found at: http://www.rnli-911challenge.co.uk/See this week's north editions for the full story, in shops and online tomorrow