The weather forecasts during the week leading up to This years Seahorse Swim were forecasting Easterly winds, blowing at 16 mph with gustts up to 28 mph. This led to some serious forecast watching and warnings of potential cancellations due to sea star being too rough to hold the swim from a safety perspective. However during Saturday forecasted winds that side to us to make a call on the Sunday morning. Sunday morning arrived and what was all the fuss about very little wind flat calm seas sunny to start with overcast which made made it near perfect conditions to hold open water swim at Knoll beach.
The logistics behind this swim for our club to organise is quite a mammoth undertaking as we have to Set up the swim course, and finish funnel, which involves the laying of 10 marker buoys and setting up booms for the finish.
This all means a very early start for us to get all the gear across to knoll beach, inflate the buoys, get all the anchors, weights and equipment onto the shore line for our boats to the do their bit in setting up the courseby 09:00hrs
As is custom this is a joint venture with Branksome Surf Lifesaving Club and RLSS Boscombe Lifeguards who also provide a safety boat and paddlers. so a huge thank you to those two clubs. we also had some help from Poole Harbour Canoe Club.
Special thanks to all involved as below
Conditions
Sunny – Flat Calm – Crystal Clear Water – very little easterly winds – flood tide
Swimmers
324 – started
324 – accounted for
several retiring swimmers
no re-portable incidents
| Lou Harrison | SAFETY OFFICER | PLG Legacy |
| David Riley | SAFETY OFFICER | PLG Legacy |
| Anita Kovacs | TEAM 1 | Branksome Arancia |
| Philip Nye | TEAM 1 | Branksome Arancia |
| Eleano Connolly | TEAM 1 | Branksome Board |
| Madeleine Sinha | TEAM 1 | Branksome Board |
| Finlay Webb | TEAM 1 | Branksome Board |
| Gordon Turner | TEAM 1 | Branksome Board |
| Christopher Grant | TEAM 2 | Boscombe Zulu |
| Karlo Weeks | TEAM 2 | Boscombe Zulu |
| Frazer Ely | TEAM 2 | PHCC – Kayak |
| Scott Bye | TEAM 2 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Malcolm Acreman | TEAM 2 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Tim Fudge | TEAM 2 | Boscombe Board |
| Lyndon Bye | TEAM 2 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Gary Clay | TEAM 3 | PLG Lottie |
| Dave Cooper | TEAM 3 | PLG Lottie |
| Tim Harris | TEAM 3 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Max Harris | TEAM 3 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Lara Moore | TEAM 3 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| David Perch | TEAM 4 | PLG Apollo |
| Brian Pemberton | TEAM 4 | PLG Apollo |
| Amy Perch | TEAM 4 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Dan Ayres | TEAM 4 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Spencer Marshall | TEAM 4 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| Mark Shakles | TEAM 4 | PLG Sit on Top Kayaks |
| julie larner | SHORE TEAM | Shore Walkers |
| Simon Moore | SHORE TEAM | Shore Walkers |
| Steve Overall | SHORE TEAM | Shore Walkers |
| Natallie Standby | SHORE TEAM | Shore Walkers |
