Female Irish Channel swimmer goes both ways!
- 21 September 2009 15:4729206Ive just been reading the Kent Online Mercury site and I see Graham Tutthill has a story up there about a 26 year old Irish girl who has just swum the channel in both directions. Not only was she content to swim from here to France, but the mad girl clearly didnt have the return ferry fare, so swam back again at once. Well I never! She has a degree in computer science so clearly worked it all out beforehand and weighed up the pros and cons on her laptop. As a fellow citizen of the Republic I take my hat off to her so I do.
The currents were bad on the way back and she eventually arrived ashore beyond Dungeness. Gawd if only The White Horse pub was open I would probably, I say probably as one cant rush into unhindered expense, I would probably buy her a drink and make sure her name adorned the faded yellowing wall of fame.
Of course the Brits and the Americans can only swim it one way and this probably requires a strong tail wind and a 14 launch support team!!!
Gosh! Ive just noticed this is post number 28888..is that lucky!? its lucky in China!email: dover7@msn.com - Brian Dixon
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21 September 2009 16:5629207paulb,you could allways drown your sorrows,ooops i mean cellibrate the irish sucsess in blakes - 21 September 2009 17:2229210Congratulations indeed to them PaulB - whether Irish, English, American, Mexican or where ever they come from.
Swimming the channel one way is a great feat in itself, but two ways, is fantastic.
We were having lunch in the Allotment last week with a lovely couple who have a guest house in Dover and they have swimmers from early July to middle late September.
We got chatting to an Aussie couple in there who were both going to swim in the next couple of days (from when we saw them).
They were staying at the Churchill - had been for a month, so these (all summer long) swimmers do bring a lot of money to local businesses and to Dover as a whole.
Roger - 21 September 2009 21:1929224Well done to her, obviously a very hardy Irish lass, and both ways, now thats something else!
- 22 September 2009 06:3429227Staying at The Churchill for a month..wow! now that is expensive. They must clearly be committed or have sponsorship or something. Has anyone tried having a couple of large glasses of wine in there?? it costs roughly the equivalent of FOUR bottles in the Supermarket.
But yes indeed Roger these swimmers do bring much needed revenue into the town as the swimmers actually linger here and spend money.
Clearly Ive failed to gently wind up all you Brits with my scandalous references to tail winds!! email: dover7@msn.com - 22 September 2009 17:5329255would it have been easier if she had swam from france to england and back?
not so many miles involved. - Brian Dixon
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22 September 2009 19:0029256would that be useing an irish sat nav howard.
- 22 September 2009 19:2229259well spotted brian, not a word to paulb though.
keep it between us. - Brian Dixon
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22 September 2009 19:3329261i wont tell him if you dont.nudge,nudge,wink,wink. - 23 September 2009 07:0229277You can't start your swim in France anymore Howard - as per the French coastguard.
I understand that the Lady from Oz (who stayed in the Churchill) was not successful in her swim - she had to stop halfway through her return swim.
A big disappointment for her - maybe next year.
Roger - 23 September 2009 09:1129286Well yes y'see Howard is right, its much quicker and shorter coming from the other direction. Its a well known fact for example that the LD Lines Seacat leaves Boulogne at 5pm and arrives back here at 5pm...now they said it could go fast, but that is much faster than expected. You hardly have time to have a cuppa tay on the thing. Likewise the swimmers could easily take an hour off their time doing likewise. So therefore much easier and faster coming from France, and of course you get assisted by the turn of the globe itself which is catapulting everything in the direction of Dover at a heck of a rate of knots. I hope yis are all following this theory.
email: dover7@msn.com - 23 September 2009 11:1029290all seems logical to me paul.
others might not fully understand though. - 24 September 2009 08:3129316Ah! bejayzez! thats all clear as a bell to me too!
