News and stories about club members, their swims and fundraising.
Hello Members, Lockdown has been difficult for everyone and given social distancing guidelines and the changing room fiasco, we have really struggled to offer any sort of club experience. The changing rooms have been completed and Easyriders have taken on the lease, we have met with the team there and agreed in principle to …
The Dorset Jelly Dodgers are setting off tonight (Monday 17th June 2019) to swim the channel. Departing at 11.30 pm from Dover on sea leopard. Tracker Details – https://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/pilots/sea-leopard UPDATE Dear All, Please accept our huge congratulations on an amazing swim yesterday! The water looked beautiful. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and are feeling OK today after …
Club member Jon Tribbeck recently took part in the 21km Vidösternsimmeet in Southern Sweden. A mysterious land of pickled herrings, cinnamon buns and crazy golf. Read his account on his Cold Wet Blog.
We were celebrating last Sunday at our annual end of season swim followed by a lunch and awards, held at the RNLI college in Poole. We’ve had a very successful season with record numbers of new members and record numbers of swimmers attending our sessions. The lunch was well attended as was the rather chilly swim …
Paul Sampson joined East Dorset Open Water Swimming Club in 2015 after deciding to train to Swim Across Continents, from Asia to Europe. Paul Sampson Swimmer: Paul Sampson Age: 62 From: near Shaftesbury When did you join the club? 2015 So how many years have you been swimming? I’ve swum since about the age 8 …
Kirstie Foweraker has just got the call to go to Dover! As long as the weather forecast holds up, her Aspire Channel Relay team should set off from Samphire Hoe near to Dover to swim to France at 7pm tomorrow. I’m going to be joining a relay team, with 5 others, and swimming the 21 …
