Thomond Swim

Posted on July 9, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

Andrea Newport was in touch to say they’d love to see any Myrtlevillians in Limerick for the Thomond Swim on Saturday, July 25 this year. It’s unfortunately clashing with the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat swim, but if Limerick suits your plans, it’s a great event.

If you’d like information or to book just click here. The route details are here.

The Thomond Swim covers a distance of 1800m and is a qualifier for the Liffey and Harbour Swims in Dublin. It is a handicapped start and is open to wetsuit and non wetsuit competitors. Swim Ireland membership is required.

What’s it all about….?

Posted on June 30, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

At an existential level, that’s not an easy question to answer. Fortunately, we don’t bother with any of that deep stuff on this site, so the answer is easy – it’s about the RNLI.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

RNLI – as posed by Gary, Eleanor, Carol, Anthony, Brian and Orla – for Siobhan Russell 🙂

Next Saturday is about raising money for the RNLI, while enjoying our fantastic home swim around the mouth of Cork Harbour to Church Bay. If you’re not entered: do it now – RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2015 Swim Entry Form.

If you are entered, participant information will be emailed on Friday, July 3. In summary:

Registration: 15.45 – 17.15

Safety Briefing: 17.30

Swim start: 18.00

See you on Saturday!

RNLI swim on July 4 – keep those entries coming!

Posted on June 24, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

Several people have mentioned the “must get around to putting in their entry”: Get it done here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2015

A few more nice pictures from Howard Crowdy from the 2010 event.

Lizzie Lee from Bishopstown and Ivan Kelleher from Friars Walk pictured at the start of the Myrteville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim (pic Howard Crowdy)

Lizzie Lee from Bishopstown and Ivan Kelleher from Friars Walk pictured at the start of the Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim.
(pic Howard Crowdy)

Dipping their feet into the ocean at the start of the Myrteville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim were Chris Mintern, Fermoy with Trevor Woods, Ballincollig and Padraig Maguire from Douglas (pic Howard Crowdy)

Dipping their feet into the ocean at the start of the Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim were Chris Mintern, Fermoy with Trevor Woods, Ballincollig and Padraig Maguire from Douglas
(pic Howard Crowdy)

Carol Cashel adjusts Sean O'Farrell's swimming cap at the start of the Myrteville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim (pic Howard Crowdy)

Carol Cashell adjusts Sean O’Farrell’s swimming cap at the start of the Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim.
(pic Howard Crowdy)

Mistaken Identity at the 2011 swim.

Posted on June 12, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

Get your entries in for the sixth annual RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay swim on July 4, 2015.

You never know, you might get your picture taken – but perhaps not the right name in the Echo. You can’t always rely on d’Echo to recognise even famous mariners like Cpt. Tom McCarthy!

ECHO SPORT – Mick Harris arrives on shore after his 2k Open Water Swin from Fort Camden to the RNLI station in Crosshaven (pic Howard Crowdy)

It’s easy to get confused, though. Here’s one of Mr. Harris – or another famous bearded man – with the winners in 2011. The girl in the wetsuit looks familiar and who did that young guy grow up to be?

Get your entry for July 4, 2015 in here.

Play GTA the OWS way

Posted on May 30, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

As we tick down to just five weeks to go to the RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay swim on July 4, 2015, we’re going back to 2011 for the always popular OWS GTA (Guess The Ass) competition! Go on, guess, who could it be?

Competition entries on an e-postcard or interweb wire-telefax thing to thebigman@skulltogsrule.com.

Actual entries – i.e. to get your ass entered for 2015 – can be submitted here.

Mystery man makes a splash as he enters the water at the start of the RNLI 2k Open Water Swim in Crosshaven in 2011 (pic Howard Crowdy)

RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay: July 4, 2015: Six weeks to go.

Posted on May 22, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

Six weeks to go to the sixth running of the RNLI Myrtleville – Church Bay Swim. Don’t miss this event. Get swimming and entering.

In the earlier days of the event, there wasn’t a clear distinction between Administration staff and Competitors.

B. Lynch would give the safety briefing, then run to the nearest phone box (tough going from Myrtleville, to be fair) and change in to his superman Orca costume. Ta Da!!

Crosshaven swimmers Bernard Lynch, Brian O’Connell, Caroline Fagan and Jane O’Connell all set for the Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim 2010 (pic Howard Crowdy)

This is great, isn’t it? Pictures of Bernard in a wetsuit! Whooda Thunkit?

Get swimming and entering for the 2015 event. Not to be missed.

RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay: July 4, 2015: Seven weeks to go

Posted on May 17, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

Seven weeks to go. Don’t miss this event. Get swimming and entering.

In 2011, the swim was moved to Camden, due to unfavourable weather at Myrtleville. Judging on the picture below, they bashed down the metal fences to get in there – although that could have been done by Micky, Kenneth or Roy, I suppose.

Then a mad fella in a wetsuit sent them forth into the sea. Plenty of them looked dubious about it. Good to see Moz had used a few bottles of fake tan and had waxed for the day.

RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2011 Safety briefing (pic Howard Crowdy).

To be fair, it must have been bad if even No. 55 was biting his nails in anticipation.

ECHO SPORT – Event organiser Bernard Lynch shows some of the competitors the route prior to the start of the 2nd annual RNLI 2k Open Water Swim at Fort Camden, Crosshaven (pic Howard Crowdy)

Get swimming and entering for the 2015 event. Not to be missed.

RNLI Myrtleville – Church Bay: July 4, 2015

Posted on May 13, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

Entries are coming in steadily for this fantastic swim. Get yours in here.

This is the sixth running of the event and I thought a few blasts from the past would be appropriate. With thanks to Howard Crowdy.

Pictured at the first Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim 2010 were well known swimmers Imelda Lynch, Diarmuid Herlihy, Billy Campion, Finbarr Hedderman, Ossi Schmidt, Ned Denison and Lisa Cummins (pic Howard Crowdy)

Seriously, look at de baba at the back. Ah, Finbarr….were you about 15?

Ossi is smiling in that one but, at times, he has been know to be a bit….precise or maybe Germanic, shall we say. Apparently on the day of this first swim it was scheduled to start at 2.30pm. There was no way that Ossi was going to begin until the appointed time. As for the rest of the entrants….they were a bit more on the Irish side.

Ossi Schmidt pictured appears to be giving the swimmers a head start during the Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim 2010 (pic Howard Crowdy)

Don’t miss the sixth running of this great swim. Enter here.

RNLI Myrtleville – Church Bay swim 2015: 8 weeks to go!

Posted on May 9, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

The RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay (entrance to Cork Harbour) 2km open water sea swim takes place on Saturday 4th July at 6.00pm on an incoming tide. Entry fee is €15, payable on the evening and donated to Crosshaven RNLI, but you must have submitted your entry online.

All participants must be able to verify a minimum of one 1,500m open water swim in 2015. We strongly recommend you have done a longer distance – or several 1,500m swims. This is a fantastic, but challenging swim and not to be attempted without proper preparation.

If you want to practice, come to Myrtleville any Monday night at 6pm or Saturdays at 08.15. For information, email us – myrtlevilleswimmers@gmail.com, tweet @MyrtlevilleS or follow this website for updates.

Start of the first swim in 2010.

Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim – July 25th, 2015 at 12 noon.

Posted on April 28, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

From Ray McArdle:

The 5th Annual Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim takes place at Blind Strand, near the picturesque fishing village of Courtmacsherry at noon on Saturday, July 25th.

All proceeds from the swim go to the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat and Swim Ireland membership is not required.

Registration this year is via Active and closes on Thursday, July 23rd.

For more details, download the PDF here. 5th Annual Courtmacsherry Lifeboat swim.

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