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The Tide

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This is today’s tide table for Dover.  Big, BIG, Spring tides.  

Low Tide 05:43 (1.46m)
High Tide 10:44 (6.23m)
Low Tide 18:04 (1.25m)
High Tide 23:14 (6.33m)

Bernard set off at 08.52, so had under two hours of incoming tide before it turned at 10.44.  It’s now headed out – hard – and taking him with it: parallel to France  and NE in the shipping channel rather than SE towards France (thanks Donal Buckley for that info).

Track

The track will look lovely on his channel swim chart when he swings back – but it must be hard going now!!   The tide won’t turn fully back into his favour until 6pm but he should start to get some benefit by about 4pm and we should see his turn beginning on the tracker. Hopefully the tide will ease his path and pull him SE into France from then on!  

“Ease” is a relative term – there’s nothing easy about this day out.

The Pie & The Pic

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Thanks to everyone who brought pressure to bear on Carol “Miss Mean” Cashell.  Our man has had his pie at the four-hour mark.  

Bernard can actually come home now, as he only went so he could get one of those iconic “man and channel ferry” pictures for his wall.  He’s got that now.  Still, might as well keep going as he’s there.  

Ferry falling behind in the race to France.

Got The Pic now.  Everything else is a bonus.

Myrtle Turtles announce media rights deal

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At a press conference this morning, the Myrtle Turtles Channel Relay Team announced the selection of http://www.myrtlevilleswimmers.com as their worldwide media partner.  The battle for media rights had reached fever pitch, but this announcement means the team can now focus on training and I can focus on making things up about the training.

The scene at the Myrtle Turtles press conference this morning.

The scene at the Myrtle Turtles press conference this morning.

The team is guided and managed by Maeve Mulcahy and made up of Anne Sheehy, Eilish Leader, Ros O’Brien, Caitriona Kehily and a token male, Eoin Lowry (only selected due to gender quotas).

Picture with thanks to Kieran Murphy.

Picture with thanks to Kieran Murphy.

Their Channel slot is the first slot July 10-18, 2016.  We’ll provide more details on the boat etc. later.  The team will be fundraising for Marymount Hospice and the Irish Kidney Association.

While a Facebook page is planned, the real facts (or interpretations of what might or might not be facts) behind the whole adventure will be found here, EXCLUSIVELY.

Good luck to all of the famous five.  This is going to be fantastic 🙂

Channel Cake event.

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The battle of the Channel Cakes took place over the weekend, as Trevor & Nicola Malone had a BBQ to thank the large crew who helped Trevor during his Channel preparations and swim.  All entrants were eaten, so it was declared a draw.

Just to note, Siobhan Russell wasn’t there, so the quality of lots of the pictures is pure crap.  I took them.

Trevor with daughter, Cliodhna supervising the cake cutting.

Trevor with daughter, Cliodhna supervising the cake cutting.

Trevor got several gifts to mark the occasion – a black sheep from Eilis for not telling her he was representing Myrtleville rather than some place down West.– very cool superhero togs, which he’s been wearing since.– a book to fill in all the spare time he now has.  Carol prepared it on behalf of the Carlsberg Crew as a log of the swim.  It’s 543 pages long, without appendices or pictures.  Once he’s finished reading it, Trevor hopes to have time to go for a swim again some time in 2016.

A nice occasion to mark a great achievement.  Onwards and upwards for the Malone family 🙂