Month: December 2020

Beautiful sunny day with next to no wind made swimming conditions perfect.

Feature race was the annual “Double Wire to Wire” Owen Coulter race sponsored by Jim Silva. This is the longest event on the clubs swim calendar.

Paul Cavanagh presented prizes on behalf of Jim.

Winners were Christine Parrish(F) and Craig Smith(M) who demonstrated superb precision swimming over the long course.

Greys are swimming this Wed and Fri and regular Sunday swims continue next week.

Jack LeBreton accepted Craig’s prize.

The photo bombing is getting a bit more subtle.

Club races were held with strict Covid practices in play.

Cool conditions, but a good morning’s swimming was held with water temps warm. Thanks to Poppetts for providing a magnificent ham and Ken Davidson for his generous 12 bottles of wine for raffle prizes.

Two swimming awards today:

1) The annual Christmas Pudding 4X50 relay with each member of the winning team receiving a Christmas Pudding from the RSL Club. The winning team members were Jack Kirkland, Lyn Bryan, Bill Jury and Gordon Williams.

2) Peter Kerr sponsored the 200M Freestyle event for closest to handicap time. Winners were Elizabeth Whitcombe(F) and John Hennessy(M).

Great conditions for swimming with the Gary Ballard 200M Freestyle the prize event of the day.

Congratulations to Kylie Mulholland (female) and Craig Smith (the other one) who swam closest to their time on the day.

Birthday celebrations to Grant Conway who provided a calorie loaded chocolate cake for the occasion. Graham Purches donated a home made Christmas Pudding in case anyone was still hungry.

Thanks to Carol and Bernard who donated 2 hooded towels and a box of chocolates for raffle prizes.

Next week will be the pre Christmas swim with extra catering and plenty of Christmas cheer. The main event will be the 4 X 50M Christmas relay with each winning member receiving a Christmas Pudding donated by the RSL.

Good conditions with a high tide and plenty of swimmers. The great Supercoach, (Paul Crowe), donates the prize for the 400M Freestyle today and there was hot competition.

The winners were Ann Wood (1.46 sec from handicap time) and Paul Rugg (2.17 sec from time).

Congratulations Ann and Paul and thanks to Supercoach for his generous prizes.

Captain Lisa presents the prizes on behalf of Supercoach.