Having accustomed a raft (of sorts), Robinsons' Dizzy Blondes will row some of the most difficult sailing straits in the world to navigate - so please show your support and give what you can (no donation is too small). We hope to raise around £1000 (beating last year's total of £800!)

The charity we will be raising money for will be the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (http://www.rnli.org/)

The RNLI provide on-call 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service around the UK and Ireland and a seasonal lifeguard service. With their lifeboats, lifeguards, safety advice and flood flood rescue service, the RNLI are commited to saving lives. They are funded by charitable donations and have helped save atleast 140000 at sea since 1824.

The event takes place on the 24th May 2015. The route starts near one of our Robinsons pubs on the mainland side,The Garddfon, then north east for approx 6 miles along the Menai Straits finishing at Menai Bridge. For those of you who don’t know the area, the race runs east through The Swellies, made famous by Admiral Lord Nelson who rated it as one of the most difficult sailing straights in the world to navigate. We will also pass under two iconic landmarks of Wales , the Menai straights bridges connecting Anglesey to the mainland. The oldest of which was famously constructed by Thomas Telford. Providing the weather is kind you will also see the church on the island in the middle of the straights, pass nelsons memorial statue and have glorious views of  Snowdon . The race ends at Menai Bridge.

Here is a link to the organisers which has a couple of videos of previous events which will give you a flavour of what we have let ourselves in for - http://www.greatstraitraftrun.co.uk/