Bob shares this latest appeal. Ed
We need to have at least ten more kayakers/canoeists to act as safety craft to enable us to hold the 64th Pier to Pier Swim Race, on Saturday 6th August at 2.15pm.
So pleads Bob Cooper, Safety Officer and Referee of this event,
“Stringent Insurance criteria as well as ensuring the total safety of the competitors means we have to have a proportinate number of safety craft to the numbers of swimmers.”
The main safety craft will be the Sandown/Shanklin Independant Lifeboat, the Ryde Inshore Rescue Lifeboat and at least six boats from the Shanklin Deep Sea Fishermen.
Get in touch
If there are any kayakers/canoeists who would like to help or have helped before, or assisted on the cross Solent swims available on Saturday 6th August can they contact: Adrian Brown on: [email protected] (IOW Kayak Club) or Bob Cooper on [email protected]
We currently have 74 entries, so if there any swimmers wanting to enter, please go the the IOW Marlins Swim Club Website for the entry form.
The race starts on the beach alongside the Sandown Pier and the course is across the bay to end at the site of the old Shanklin Pier.
