Friday, 9 June 2017

2Swim4Life 17

Ricks at 2Swim4life 2017
Charlie , Basher , Lesley , Ross , Steve & Stuart 



Meet Ricks 5 solo swimmers 





Video of the start of 
2Swim4life 2017
its 9am...













Ricks Report ..
4hours / 4 miles into the swim 

Ricks Team Thoughts
4hrs into the event 













































































23 Miles / 23 hours done...
start of the 24th and final mile ..





1200m to goooooooooooo



Full Report to come of an awesome 24hrs .!!! 
you think the English channel is hard to swim , think again ... the 2Swim4Life event
is on another level , trying to swim one mile on the hour , every hour for 24 hrs .!! sounds easy ...but trust us its not ...;-) ...full story to come...



Video of 
2Swim4life 2017

( Many Thanks to Katia & Ruth for many of these great pictures )

see you in 2019...

Saturday, 1 April 2017

The Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation Dinner 2017

Big Ricks Swim Team..
Ross , Basher , Stu Charlie & Claire .
pictured at CF&PF dinner in Dover ..
Ricks were The Fastest 2 way of the Year.
also Third fastest 1 way of any team  
Pre dinner Drinks ..
in the White Horse Inn ..
"The Channel Swimmers Pub "

Durley Sea Swims Class of 2016..
we are very proud to have training at Durley with Marcus Wadworth and his team
some amazing swimmers pictured after the dinner 

Ricks Plaque at Varne  Ridge holiday Village 


lisa & Ali,,
2 person 2 way ...2016.
amazing swimming ladies 

these ladies know a thing or two about channel swimming
Alison , Ali , Sal , lisa , Jude 

its hard to pick the best swim of a any channel year ..
but for us Mickey`s  swim was No 1.. 

mickey & Jim 

Howard & Mickey 
2 AMAZING SWIMMERS ...
WHO DID 
3 INCREDIBLE SWIMS..

 Mr  Sheridan..
Looking very stylish 

Dan 

Cliff & Emma 

Ali & Lisa
amazing swim ladies 

Sal ..
2 way solo...
amazing swimming 

Sal won the Gertrude Ederle award 





Pam & Sal






At the Dinner £1,435 was raised for the RNLI in Dover  
This amount is to be matched by CS&PF Federation. 
Thank you generous swimmers
This lovely Video was done  by Emma France 
its the Class of 2016..
with swimmers from both CS&PF & CSA 
WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO SWAM 
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL IN 2016...

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE WITH YOUR 
CHANNEL ADVENTURERS IN 2017 & BEYOND.
Ricks  

( massive thank you to everyone for the use of some of the pictures in this blog
if you have any issues with us using them , let us know and they will be removed  )