The Time Has Come To Swim The Channel..!!

The English Channel
fingers crossed in 2013
we will have a lovely day..........!!

Finally the time has come...no more talking or asking for help...its 100% swim time ,The double swim of the English  channel looks set to go ahead in the early hours of Monday morning (15th July )  .we would like to take this opportunity to give our thanks to everyone for their messages of good luck...it truly means a lot to us all , it’s been a tough and emotional 9 months for the 6 of us..We so hope we can make the swim a success this year for many private and personal reasons..,..We will for sure give it our best shot....Let’s do it..

If u wish to stop up all day and night to follow our progress then these are links to help you...

CSA ships GPS tracker links...our Boat is called Masterpiece..
(Channel Swimming Association Link to Masterpiece)
http://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/csa-pilots/fred-mardle

ShipAIS tracker link, you will again find Masterpiece and all ships that are
in the channel
http://www.shipais.com/currentmap.php?refresh=2&count=3&map=folkstone

also will be updating on our Twitter
https://twitter.com/bigrickswimteam
@bigrickswimteam

Once again  thank you for your help,for your support , for your Kinds words not only this year but for the last 3 years we`ve  been trying to swim the english channel, in our best of 3 swims series it lies at one each, one win to us, one win to the channel...lets see who wins in 2013.

best wishes to you all
Ricks & Pips 

Breakthrough Breast Cancer..

http://www.justgiving.com/pipschannelswimteam

here`s hoping its a lovely day ...?