RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2015: Entrant information

Posted on August 13, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

For participants, please read the PDF below. Important information is included on the first page. Directions to Myrtleville and to Church Bay are also provided. This PDF was emailed to all participants who were registered at 12.00 today, Friday, August 14. Later entrants will not receive an email and must download it from the link below:

RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay Swim 2015 – Participant Information

Registration from 14.45-16.15. Safety briefing at 16.30. Race start at 17.00.

The forecast looks reasonable. The downside of this is that the beach and Church Bay may be busy, so park carefully. Do not under any circumstances block residents from entering or leaving their homes or any access to roadways. Park further away if necessary – consider the walk as a warm up for the swim.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

Participants for RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2014

RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2015

Posted on August 10, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

All entrants to date will receive an email today, Monday, to confirm they are entered. We would ask anyone who has entered but can’t make it, to let us know.

If you haven’t entered and want to do so, do it here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2015.

RNLI Courtmacsherry Swim

Posted on July 20, 2015 by myrtlevilleswimmers

From Ray McArdle:

Just five days to go until the 2015 Courtmacsherry Lifeboat swim on July 25th at 12 noon.

The final details are coming along nicely and we can now only hope for some good weather on the day.

Registration is available at the following web site until midnight on Wednesday, July 22nd. We will allow some registrations on the day for €20 with all proceeds going to the RNLI charity.

More details about the event can be found at the Facebook page for Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim.

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.

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!

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.

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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