A life on the ocean waves is full of perils - especially if you are naked and defenceless!
Calendar girl - Liz Rae and John Attwell Picture: ROB BROWNE
However, members of a yacht club threw caution to sea winds and bared all to raise money for a new club-house ship - the Wilton.
Inspired by the hit film Calendar Girls - starring former Westcliff schoolgirl Helen Mirren - young and old members of the Essex Yacht Club swapped wet suits for their birthday suits to raise money to buy the new ship.
Based in Cliff Parade, Leigh, the club is raising thousands of pounds to replace its land-based headquarters ship, the Bembridge, which is to be retired next year after 28 years' service.
Yacht club spokesman Liz Rae - Miss July in the calendar - said: "The calendar is wonderful. Landscape photographer John Attwell took lovely shots of us down by the coast at our club."
Published Tuesday December 16, 2003
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