Safety support for Swim on June 20th

Anyone available to assist with safety support for the RNLI swim on Thursday June 20th at 7pm, please contact Bernard Lynch on zero eight six, two two five seven zero five eight.   We would appreciate help from RIBs, kayaks, SUPs etc.  We have a great reputation for our safety flotilla and with a large entry expected again this year, all help is very welcome.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

Just some of the Safety Armada waiting for the start in 2014

RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay Swim 2019

The 2019 RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay 2km open water swim will take place on Thursday, June 20th, 2019 at 7.00 pm. 

Entries will be online and will open early in 2019.

If for safety reasons June 20th has to be postponed, the back-up date is Thursday, July 4th, 2019 at 6.30 pm.  If this date can not proceed, there will be no event in 2019 and all entry fees will be donated to the RNLI.  

Get in vogue

Trendsetters, that’s what we are down Myrtleville way.  I read Karl Henry in the Indo today…..“Get your togs on and jump in. Swimming in the sea is back in vogue”.  

Just what we dreamed of – to be “in vogue”.  Often we’ve marvelled as our style influencers shiver down the slip sashay down the catwalk in Myrtleville on a February morning with the crowds ooohing and aaahing about the latest look and how to “work it” – all the mnás gasping “oh, Denis/Daniel/Pat, you’re sooooo voguey with your big, BIG, orange float”.  Swoon, like – swoon.  Style and In-Vogue-ness, that’s what sea swimming is all about for us.

All vogued-up activities have to have a Season of course – Henley, Ascot, that kind of thing.  We’ve got the RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay Swim on July 3rd, where fashions will be flaunted, style icons will point the way to the latest trends in togs and goggles and there’ll be a general level of vogueidity that even Anna Wintour couldn’t keep up with.

Influencers worth following – two men who never realised what trendsetters they were- or how much they were “in vogue”.  Will be signing autographs at the RNLI swim.

Don’t miss the most voguey event of the year – enter now on ActiveIt’ll be very much like this video, I’d say.  Any chance of a flash-mob, Joanne?

Munster Open Water Calendar 2018

With many thanks to Carol Cashell for her ongoing hard work, here’s a link to the “final” version of the Calendar for 2018.  I say “final” as Carol will update monthly as changes arise! Her work never ends…

SEE UPDATED VERSION HERE:

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Of course you must first enter that great event on July 3rd, then consider some other options 🙂

Get entered for RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2017

Entries are coming in steadily and with lots of people now getting 1,500m+ done in the sea, make sure to get yours in for June 10th as well.  The swim is now an event of the Cork Harbour Festival and will take place on the same day as the Ocean to City Race.

The 2017 RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay (entrance to Cork Harbour) 2km open water sea swim will take place on Saturday, June 10th at 5.00pm. 

Participants must have submitted their entry online.  We can’t accept entries on the day.

Enter here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2017 Entries on Active

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