Staunch Myrtlevillian, Ned Denison, has been nominated for the WOWSA (World Open Water Swimming Association) Man of the Year 2023.
While he might get a few votes from down West (Rob, ahhh…. Finbarr….aaahhhm – is there anyone else down there?) he’ll need the massive voting bloc that is Myrtleville Swimmers to get him the award he deserves.
Tell your friends – VOTE NED! WOWSA Awards 2023 Link for voting
For any swimmers who did something interesting in their swims this year and want to recognise those who helped them, please nominate your crew:
The Devil’s Island Trophy – is given to and held by the Crew whose swimmer completed the most interesting, epic swim during the year. The Crew names will be listed FIRST to emphasise the importance of the crew.
There is a judging panel of 5 representing all big Cork OW groups.
The judgement is very subjective, but emphasis will be on the following:
Must be a marathon swim of 10k or longer – and the longer the better.
Must Not be a major recognised swim like the English Channel etc. We are looking for unique or firsts or just an epic of a day.
A Cork swimmer travelling alone, and using Foreign Crew, in some foreign destination to swim is not a candidate for this trophy.
Ideally a unique swim. Or just an epic or first, or a good story.
Ideally the swimmer must be from/living in Cork at the time of the swim.
Ideally a solo swim – but a pod swim or a relay swim will be considered.
Ideally not a huge mass participation event. Unless each swimmer has own boat/crew.
Ideally listed on the Cork long swim list, but all locations considered.
Some or all should be Cork based crew.
You can nominate more than one set of crew if you have different swims to be included.
Presented annually – as long as there is a worthy swim.
The award will be announced later this year
YOUR crew MUST be nominated by you…by email to ned.denison@corkopenwater.com by the 15th November and must include:
Crew names…roles
Confirm, your swim as listed on the attached is accurate…and give date of swim
A Citation as to why you are nominating the crew (from a few sentences to a one-page essay). The key is HOW they helped YOU !
Thanks once again to the huge number of volunteers from Myrtleville Swimmers who help to make this event special. All of your help at registration, gear-loading, traffic-management, count-out etc. etc. is vital and a credit to the group who enjoy Myrtleville so much.
This year we raised €6,122 – our most successful year yet – and we have now donated over €25,000 to the RNLI since the first swim in 2010.
Thanks to everyone who assisted tonight. This picture of the safety support is extraordinary. This wasn’t even the full flotilla of supporters.
Unfortunately we have a delay in the times for results due to a malfunction. We will update once we hear from Sportstiming.
Well done to the Myrtlevillians at the Fastnet and in Galway this week. Great swims. Great pics.
That joke never gets old. Never. Good news.
Update on the maintenance from Marc:
The yearly maintenance is now complete on the buoys. Thankfully we got a good day for it which helped. Replaced buoys 1 & 3. The other buoys needed replacement ropes & chain, thimbles & shackles. Buoy 2 needs to be replaced in 2024. Buoys Floating better now & repainted.
We still have 55 people on the waiting list for the swim next week. If you are entered and your plans have changed so you are not swimming, please cancel your place. You’ll have made a donation to the RNLI and also allowed someone else to contribute and participate.
We do not allow transfers and there are no entries on the day.
A limited number of places are starting to become available for June 21st. That’s likely to increase as we move closer to the date and people cancel due to other commitments etc. As a place comes available, it is automatically offered to the next person on the waiting list – FIFO. You have 12 hours to accept your offered place. If you do not, the place is offered to the next person on the list. It is vital that you keep an eye on the email address you used to join the waiting list. If you miss the email and thus miss an offered place, you will be dropped from the waiting list. You can join it again, but you will be at the bottom.
Note also that as we move closer to the 21st, we will shorten the time allowed to accept a place.
If you are interested in a place, make sure to watch your emails – and join the waiting list, if you wish.
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