A LONGSTANDING lifeboat volunteer who spent almost half a decade at sea is finally hanging up his wellies. Max Gilligan took part in dozens of rescues during his 38 years of service as a crew member with Selsey RNLI. He just 10-years-old when he first got involved with the lifeboat crew and was often seen racing down to the station to watch and help out when the maroons were fired. He accompanied the boat crew out on the Canadian Pacific to the then manned Owers Light vessel, at Christmas to deliver their Christmas Turkey. It was almost a decade later that he joined the RNLI crew in 1983.
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