Our first event of the 2018 season!!!

What an absolutely cracking day. Beautiful summer weather made for water temperatures ranging from 16.7 deg to 19 deg. All the swimmers taking part had a fantastic swim in the lovely sun baked lake.

A big thank you to all new and existing members for turning up and making a brilliant event.

Thank you to Patrick Smith for organising the event and all the volunteers who helped out.

We’re all looking forward to the next event at Wykeham Lake next week.

Thanks again to all those who supported this event after the troubles we encountered last year, it just goes to show that despite water problems last year – it was just bad luck – this venue provides a superb swim and with weather like today the BLDSA friendly atmosphere shone through!

Here is the annual reminder, for any new members joining the BLDSA from now onward for the remainder of 2017, membership for 2018 will be added as a Bonus.

So it is now time to join – to take part in the Lynn Regis events in 2017 and the whole calendar of events for 2018……

JOIN NOW

Have a look at the last few events – still available to swim the beautiful St. Marys Loch  and the final end of season swim at Lynn Regis

!!Come on guys it will soon all be over for the year and you will be back in the boring indoor pools counting laps not miles!!

Swimming through the night on Monday 7th August and finishing on
Tuesday 8th August, Wendy Figures successfully crossed the English
Channel in 13 hours 45 minutes.  Her boat pilot was Fred Mardle on
Masterpiece of CSA and she had plenty of support with her crew of 4!
Well done Wendy – another great swim!

Many congratulations to Philip Hodges who completed a solo swim of
Loch Awe on 19th August. His time (subject to ratification by the
BLDSA Committee) was 15 hours 3 minutes 44 seconds.

An incredible swim by Philip, more so because Philip has been in
Ireland for much of the last fortnight patiently awaiting his North
Channel slot. Unfortunately his tide was blown out, but in an
incredible display of resilience, he swam Loch Awe instead today.

Many congratulations from all of us in the BLDSA. Awesome!