Crawley Town Lifesaving Club had high success at the last ever Bournemouth Regatta as it is currently known. The regatta, widely regarded as the Country's most thorough lifesaving competition, played host to Crawley Town's most successful ever cadet team to enter the competition and the club's greatest medal haul at the event to date.

A team of Luke Peel, Gemma Cousins, Felicity Burke, Sam and Joanne O'Connor captained by Rory Hopcraft achieved overall regatta victory by claiming gold in the overall speed events and in Sunday's March Past. Hopcraft claimed the Trophies for the individual distance rope-throw competition and Iron-man events while Joanne gave a surprise performance in the Malibu Board Race, an event she has never competed in before, in order to take bronze! The team showed glimmers of brilliance at times as the paring of Peel and Sam O'Connor swept the board with their double heptathlon of events on Saturday. In Burke's debut year of competitions for Crawley a high standard has been set for her to follow as she won Sunday's Swim and Tow against opponents with far greater experience. Cousins, even though nursing an injury to the knee, cruised in to second place in the 500metre surf swim and gained the greatest result in the lifeguarding questionnaire, an event reputably difficult at the Regatta. Despite the team losing the simulated incident on Sunday morning, their outstanding performances in the speed events over the weekend more than compensated, taking them to yet more silverware for the club!

In the Regatta's final year Crawley Town was forced to field an inexperienced men's team due to national team commitments at the world Championships for three of its squad members. This resulted in both Alan Smedley and Jenny Sampson being drafted into the team on the day of the Regatta with Jeff Lutz, Gary Lee and Alistair Reid taking their usual positions along with Cathol Fitzpatrick from Crawley's sister club Belfast. The Men finished well after the first day which was as best as could be expected considering the dramatic team changes. Gary Lee showed far superior experience to win the overall Captain's trophy- judged on Sundays simulated incident- by a significant 7-point margin. The incident comprised of approximately 25 casualties in differing dangers, from bystanders to people trapped under canoes and on jet-skis. The men came a morale boosting second in the Sunday competition and gave hope to the team by winning the reel and line competition. Unfortunately the teams late spur for victory was in vein as they were left with too much to regain and finished 3rd in the overall championship.

Lincoln just beat the Crawley Town Ladies comprising of Abi Hoyle, Heather Smedley, Ellie Bristow, Sarah Cousins Ruth Butler and Caoimhe Shepheard into second place in many of the Individual efforts of the first day. Bristow, however, maintained a positive team spirit- winning her Saturday competition by a comfortable margin. Hoyle commanded her team with great confidence in the incident and came first in the ladies and was only beaten by Lee to the overall Captain's trophy- moreover the ladies took gold in the incident as well! It was when the regatta began to test the stamina of the teams with a continuous barrage of races on Sunday (which was kicked off with a half past 8 start that morning) Crawley Town showed their true colours to win Sunday's competition by a 20 point margin and take the overall trophy in similar style.