The New Boathouse and Sea-Safe Education Centre

Over the last few years we have had discussions with the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, which owns the land along the seafront at Hornsea, and we were granted both a 99-year lease and planning permission to enable us to go ahead with our new boathouse.

The first part of the project, which is the building of exterior walls with drainage etc began in August 2008, and was completed by December 2008.  Interior walls and all fittings are part of the second stage which is being undertaken as and when we have sufficient funds. Members of the Hornsea Rescue team together with local tradesmen have been working extremely hard on this project and we became fully operational from this building on 31^st January 2010 (although there is still quite a lot of internal finishing to complete).

The largest room will house the rescue boat and tractor along with our jet-bike, and includes a workshop area and a small adjoining store room.   There are large roller-shutter doors opening onto a hard standing apron with wash-down facilities as the boat and engines have to be washed down to remove salt water after use.

The Operations Room and Sea Safe Education Centre will be provided with an arrangement of large tables and chairs for meetings and training. We hope to install a new computer suite with a large screen or interactive whiteboards etc and .  Hornsea Lions have donated £7,500 for the structure of this room, which will be called the "Lions Room".

There will also be a drying room where suits will be stored, a kitchen, two toilets one with facilities for the disabled and a fund-raisers store room.  Outside there is a parking area including space for the disabled, and the whole site is be surrounded by a security fence.