Well done to family for such positive contribution

Madam,

Well done the Davies family from Pencnwc Holiday Park, New Quay, for making such a great, very positive contribution to the Ceredigion Lifeboat Campaign.

Their pledge to pay for all the fuel for a Shannon-class all-weather lifeboat at New Quay is excellent.

As owners of Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park, at Gwbert, Cardigan, we know, in common with Pencnwc, the importance of tourism to the economy of Ceredigion and west Wales generally. It is absolutely crucial!

However, tourism involves inexperienced urban visitors going out to sea – sometimes foolishly.

Do readers realise that Cardigan Bay is the biggest bay in the British Isles? It stretches from Bardsey Island at the tip of the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd to St David’s Head in Pembrokeshire.

New Quay is fairly central to that vast sea area. Therefore, a large ocean-going, Shannon-class, all-weather lifeboat is highly important, not just for New Quay but the whole of Cardigan Bay.

The current BBC2 TV series Saving Lives at Sea shows what an important and dangerous job is being carried out by brave RNLI lifeboat crews all around the British Isles. Well done all of them.

May I suggest that your many readers write to their Members of Parliament, Assembly Members, county councillors and the RNLI, urging that a Shannon-class lifeboat be kept at New Quay.

Yours etc,

Lyn Jenkins, Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park, Gwbert, Cardigan.

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