GINA Campbell, the daughter of speed legend Donald Campbell, drove a boat on Coniston for the first time since her father's death this weekend in a protest over the impending Windermere speed limit.

Ms Campbell had pledged never to drive a boat on the lake again after her father met his death there in his record-breaking attempt in 1967.

But she said she had decided to break a lifetime's promise to herself to campaign over the Lake District National Park Authority's ruling to impose a 10mph speed limit on Winderemere in 2005.

"There is still time to change this unfair, unjust speed limit and by revisiting my family's proving ground and the history that surrounds it, I hope the LDNPA will bring about change so there will be a lake where we can relaunch and rerun my father's rebuilt boat Blue Bird."

Ms Campbell launched a day of protest on Saturday organised by the Keep Windermere Alive Association.

Following her trip around Coniston at the helm of a speed boat, an armada of 313 boats congregated for a mass rally on Windermere.

KWAA believes the speed limit will lead to the loss of England's greatest watersports amenity and deliver a hammer blow to the local economy, depriving it of £20million a year of lake-user related revenue.

"The rally demonstrates that there are 3,000 boats with nowhere to go if the ban goes ahead," said KWAA secretary Kevan Furber.