Dear Kayaking friends, Sally Goble asked me to post this for her friend, Simon Murie, the founder of Swimtrek (
http://www.swimtrek.com) who is organising a swimming race in the home of Channel swimming in a few weeks. He has support from 6 six ribs but is desperately looking for some kayak support as well. Can you help? There is a small payment for your time. The details are below. Please call Simon directly if you can get involved - I guess he needs to know quite soon.
As discussed this sea swim is for Charity and proceeds will be benefiting Ordinary 2 Extraordinary
http://www.o2e.org/ Everything for the event is in place. We have RIBs sorted (6 in total) and also all the necessary permissions. All we are now short of is canoeists/kayakers and hopefully this is where you could help out. We have estimated that we will need between 6-10 canoeists/kayakers to cover the event.
We would pay the canoeists £50 each for their time. We would only need them from 8.30am until 11am on Sunday 13th July.
The event information is as follows.
Event Date: Sunday 13th July
Start Time: 9.30am
Proposed Start Point: Beach to the west of Samphire Hoe (OS284387). We have the permission of Samphire Hoe Warden to access this beach and bring vehicles through to it.
Proposed Finish Point: ShakespeareBeach(OS318403)
Swim Distance: 3 1Ž2km (???)
Expected Number of Swimmers: 30-50 maximum
Bad Weather Contingency: If there is poor weather, we would then hold the event in the protection of Dover Harbour.
Please give me a call me if you have any ideas or any one would be able to help cover this event.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks
Simon Murie
Sunnyhill House, 3-7 Sunnyhill Rd, London, SW16 2UG
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8696 6220 Fax: +44 (0) 20 8696 6213
Nick the Younger