LISTEN: £1M Fundraising Bid For New Loch Ness Lifeboat Station

The RNLI is launching a campaign to raise £1 million for its lifeboat crew at Loch Ness.

The cash will be used to fund building of a new station on the banks of the loch.

The crew have been operating out of the present station since 2008.

But the cramped space – the size of a small single garage – is used to work, train, take care of crucial emergency kit and store all the necessary equipment.

There is no boathouse to store the lifeboat Colin James Daniel which has to be moored a short distance away.

It is exposed to the weather all year round causing excessive wear, repeated freezing and thawing causes no end of problems.

The new station building will be just 200m away from the existing building at Temple Pier, Drumnadrochit, roughly the mid-point on Loch Ness.

MFR Reporter Derek Ferguson speaks with Loch Ness Operations Manager Ewan Cameron about the campaign for a new station...

Martin Douglas, a helm on the Loch Ness lifeboat said, ‘The new boathouse will be a huge improvement.

"It will protect the lifeboat from the elements and mean we can carry out essential maintenance in the warm and dry.

‘We will also have a proper crew facility for training and storing our kit.’