Hop on a yacht, RIB, dinghy or paddleboard and head to the world's biggest floating Macmillan coffee morning — off the Isle of Wight coast

MACMILLAN coffee mornings will be held across the Isle of Wight on Friday — including one onboard a fleet of boats anchored at Osborne Bay. Intended to be the world's biggest floating coffee morning, the event has been organised by Ballistic RIBs and Boat Club Trafalgar, both part of the Trafalgar Group teams, based in Portsmouth. Staff will be serving cakes baked by the team onboard the Selene, a 22ft powerboat, and fresh coffee donated by the Raw Bean Coffee Company. RIBS will zip around the bay between 10.30am and 2.30pm, delivering coffee and cakes to customers on other boats, kayaks and even paddleboards. Event organiser and cake contributor Heather Shepherd, from Ballistic said: “Cancer touches many lives, and we wanted to do something a little different for our world’s biggest floating coffee morning, to support Macmillan. Doing it by getting as many people out on the water as possible seemed like a fun idea.” “Everyone is welcome to come and help raise much needed money for people living with cancer, and you can arrive by kayak, paddleboard, rowing boat, powerboat, dinghy or sailing yacht — just remember to bring a donation for your coffee and cake.” During the event, there will be a visit by the Bubblehead Rowers, a team of four professional divers taking part in the 3,000-mile Talisker Whisky Atlantic Row in aid of the Wessex Cancer Trust. Every two minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer, with more than 2.5 million people suffering with the disease. Numbers are set to grow to nearly four million by 2030. Macmillan said it was almost entirely funded by donations and cannot support the growing number of people with cancer without the public’s help. For more details on the event, email Heather Shepherd at heather@ballisticribs.com