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Congratulations to the fly team who made it to France in 19 hours and 15 minutes. Heroic swimming and all swam butterfly.
Update as of 22.30
The fly team are making steady progress towards France. As they get close, Rob Ouldcott said "the rough seas is making butterfly progress difficult, so progress slow. But all are smiling." The last report was that the team are heading for Calais in what could be a long night of more than 16 hours of swimming.
So... with 150 years of history the Serpentine is at the forefront of making new history (we hope!) writes Kevin Blick. If successful the all Serpentine team will be the world's first Butterfly relay team to successfully swim across the English Channel.
Less than 9 months ago none of us could swim more than 50m fly in flat water and it seemed an impossible task. It still might be. To be successful we will have to swim there with legal fly stroke (we have an extra observer on board to check this) and also follow strict CS&PF relay rules
It looks like we should start our swim at 5am on Sunday 9 August.
The six Swimmers are:
Rob (you are not going to get me to do that. .. ok then) Ouldcott
Mark (I have just done 3hrs whilst i was waiting for you) Johansen
Boris (No way will i join... errr can i join) Mavra
Rob (open to suggestions. .. any!) Fisher
Sam (I swam 3 strokes when i was 6 so is perfectly qualified) Mould
Kevin ( glorious leader they call me? Not sure if my reference is due to my management style or hair cut) Blick
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Why Crawl when you can Fly!
Kevin, Rob O, Rob F, Boris, Mark, Sam
