Fantastic weather and sea conditions today, certainly made up for the 2 x cancellations last year.

287 swimmers took to the water and all bar 2 completed their swim /challenge. Lots of happy faces all round suggests that everyone had a great time, which is what the Brownsea Swim is all about:
Long lasting great memories, from an Iconic Swim.

Well Done everyone that took part and thanks to all those involved in the marshal team, and the Safety Team either as part of the Paddle Craft Team or on the Safety Boat Team. We really do appreciate you giving of your time to allow this event to take place – Thank You.

• Brownsea Swim 2019 – Overall Result

Please see the above link for all the information required for your 2019 Brownsea challenge, hope you enjoy your experience.

Unfortunately the tides have not been kind to us next year and have only allowed 2 possible dates, one which clashes with the Bournemouth Air Festival, which will deplete our safety boat team as the majority of them will be in use patrolling the exclusion zone, thus ruling that date out of the running.

That leaves us with the only date available next year which is:

Sunday 15th September with an approx. 09:45hrs start time.

The John Lewis Castle and The National Trust Brownsea Island have both confirmed this date as suitable with them and are looking forward to working with us towards next years swim already!

We will keep you informed of progress and we would hope to have entries going live as usual during the last week of February 2019

This has become one of the most iconic swims on the open water swim calendar, with all 300 places being snapped up within 15 minutes of the entry forms going live back in February and the entry forms being taken off line 10 minutes later due to another 150 swimmers on the reserve list.

The motto behind the swim, which has been held since 1991, is Held in the Spirit of Self Belief and Madcap Adventure started by the few who wondered if they could “Swim Around Brownsea Island” – Not so much a race but a voyage of discovery! The strong winds and fast tides at various stages around the island make for some very challenging conditions for the swimmers to endure, so a very apt motto indeed!!

In 2009, RLSS Poole Lifeguard decided to encourage swimmers to use the Brownsea Island Swim to raise sponsorship for charities of their own choice. The total amount of money generated by swimmers this year now stands at a massive £27,764.29 all of which goes towards a large number of local, national and international charities. (see the table below for the list of 2017 beneficiaries). This brings the total sum raised by the swim since 2009 to a whopping £151,955.21 which is something that RLSS Poole Lifeguard and all our supporters that help on the day, should feel extremely proud of.

A full set of results can be found on the lifeguards website www.rlss-poole.org.uk/brownsea.

Here are the top 3 places in each category.

Ladies Non Wetsuit (Full Dist)
1st   Naomi Vides  102    1.22.59   Oxford Uni
2nd Claire Thorn   101    1.26.12    n/a
3rd   Luisa Petta    106    1.37.47    South Worcester Lifeguards

Ladies Wetsuit (Full Dist)
1st   Katie Nimmo   201    1.20.28     CSWPC / GMSC
2nd Elizabeth Tarr  207   1.22.08     Teddington MSC
3rd Julie Hacket     221    1.28.52      SLSC South London Swimming Club

Mens Non Wetsuit (Full Dist)
1st   Oliver Wilkinson  301    1.17.16    Gloucester Masters
2nd Marc Newman     302    1.26.04    EDOWSC
3rd  Simon Griffiths    304    1.29.22    Teddington MSC

Mens Wetsuit (Full Dist)
1st   Guy Giles                   401    1.16.17    n/a
2nd Greg Whyte                413    1.17.12    RLSS-UK
3rd  Aidan Gill                   462    1.21.33    Rushmoor Royals Swimming Club

Non Wetsuit (Half Dist)
1st   Stephanie Marriott  029    0.57.07    n/a
2nd Ralph Bostock         027    0.58.33    n/a
3rd  Sophie Bostock       028    1.01.51    n/a

Wetsuit (Half Dist)
1st   Christopher Marais   005    0.51.58 Wimbledon Windmilers
2nd Adam Jones              003    0.53.48 n/a
3rd  Anthony Locke          004    0.56.27 n/a

Special thanks to go got the following clubs/ organisations without whom, we would not be able to host this event:

We are extremely fortunate to be able to have such a picturesque island to swim round and for that we are extremely grateful to the National Trust Brownsea Island for their continued support and involvement.

The swim starts and finishes on the private beach, within the grounds of the wonderful Brownsea Castle, for which we also extend a huge thanks to the John Lewis Partnership who also supply a a very welcome cup of home made soup and bread roll for all the swimmers once they have finished their swim.

To enable this unique open water swim to take place, RLSS Poole Lifeguard, who are a small club of volunteer lifeguards, call upon a whole host of neighbouring lifeguard and lifesaving clubs as well as other clubs / organisations to help with the safety cover and for the marshals for the event. In total we had 60 paddle craft, 15 safety boats and 40 marshals. All of whose give up their time for free to enable this swim to take place. A list of clubs and organisations that assist with the running of the event are listed below.

South Worcester Life Saving Club; Southbourne Surf Life Saving Club; RLSS Boscombe Lifegaurds; Bournemouth Lifeguard Corps; Branksome Surf Life Saving Club; RLSS Poole Lifeguard; Poole Harbour Canoe Club; New Forest Kayak Canoe Club; Maritime Volunteer Service -(MVS) Poole; East Dorset Open Water Swimming Club; plus a number of friends and associates who do not belong to any club/organisation.

All in all, another fantastic year, so thank you to all who helped make this swim happen and also a thank you to all the swimmers who took part this year, we hope you all had a great day with us!

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This brings the total sum raised by the swim since 2009 to a whopping £151,955.21 which is something I think that RLSS Poole Lifeguard and all our supporters that help on the day, should feel extremely proud of.

The table below is a list of all the Local, National and International Charities that will benefit from the money raised by swimmers this year.

We would like to thank all the swimmers who made the effort to raise sponsorship – it is a very kind and generous thing that you do!!

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A few pointers for the Brownsea Swim Entry Form!

Remember it is down to you to fill in the swim entry form correctly, we can not do that for, you as we do not have a crystal ball.

Whilst we do operate a 1st Come 1st Serve process, preference will be given to correctly completed forms, so please ensure that you read the questions and give correct answers so as to avoid your own disappointment

CONTACT DETAILS

It is very important to get the following data correct when submitting your entry form:

• Email address of the swimmer
• Mobile telephone number of the swimmer
• Date of birth of the swimmer
• Emergency person name and contact number

We will be contacting you by either email or by text messaging, so it goes without saying that I am sure you won’t want to miss out because you miss spelt your email address or entered your mobile phone number incorrectly – just saying!

Your date of birth needs to be entered in the good old English format (am I allowed to say that nowadays?) of DD/MM/YYYY – so the 02nd March 1980 becomes 02/03/1980 and not the USA version of mm/dd/yyyy  as that mucks up the database and causes problems in trying to match you from previous years should we have had the pleasure of your company in the past, this adds to the frustration and delays the process.

Finally, your emergency contact needs to be someone who is not entering the swim or involved with the swim. The idea being that we can make contact with that person in the case of an Emergency – not very clever if the phone number given, rings a phone in a bag in the bag marquee.

DISTANCE            

Full
Half

CATEGORY           

Ladies Non Wetsuit: (Full Distance)
Ladies Wetsuit: (Full Distance)
Mens Non Wetsuit: (Full Distance)
Mens Wetsuit: (Full Distance)
Non Wetsuit  (Half Distance)
Wetsuit  (Half Distance)

CHALLENGE T-SHIRT

Simply select the size of T-Shirt that is included with your entry fee. You select it – you get it – so do make sure you select the correct size you want, as indicated on the entry form.

ETA   

in Minutes – estimated time to complete your distance i.e. 110 mins = 1hour 50mins

HAVE YOU TAKEN PART BEFORE

if yes choose “YES” and give any additional info to tie you to a previous entry in the swim database – i.e. different Last Name or different First Name even.

MEDICAL AILMENTS                 

You really do need to declare any medical ailments and disclose any medications that you might have with you on the day of the swim. This will be kept confidential but it will allow the First Aid team and the Safety Crew to assist you quickly and in the most appropriate way should it be required.

SPONSORSHIP

We encourage everyone to use this event to raise money for a charity of your choosing. Since 2009 the event has helped generate over £120,000.00 towards a whole host of local, national and international charities. This is a great achievement and one we would like to be able to continue, so we would ask you all to think about doing this same and indicate if you would like to raise sponsorship for a charity of your choice. If you know the charity now – then add the name, if not just enter “to be advised”

TRADITIONAL POLO SHIRTS / T-SHIRTS

If you wish to purchase a top quality t-shirt or polo shirt with the Brownsea Swim Logo on the left breast then select “Yes” and add the quantity / style / colour and size. eg  1 off Polo – Sky Blue – XL

DISCLAIMERS

All that is required now, is for you to read the “Conditions Of Entry”, “Disclaimer Details” and “Confirmation of Payment and Payment Method” – tick that you Understand and Accept them and then submit the form.

PERSON SUBMITTING FORM

This is important for referring back to if you are not the named swimmer on the form. They will then know who to blame for any incorrect data –   only kidding, It helps in identifying where forms have originated from when querying things after they have been submitted.

SUBMITTING THE FORM

It is anticipated that there may be just small increase in website activity when the entry goes live (under exaggeration there me thinks) and as such I don’t know how the website will cope, that said the form and entry process does work.

Therefore you only need to press the Submit button just ONCE and wait – yes wait for you to be redirected to the acknowledgment page. If you press the submit button several times in a panic or frustration due to traffic levels then that’s creating more work for me in deciphering the duplicated entries. You never know I might just make you swim round the island 4 times if I get four forms from people again this year

Please Note: that by submitting an entry form you will be acknowledging that you have read and agree to the Conditions of Entry – even if someone else submits it on your behalf!

The result have now been published – see the Brownsea 2014 Info Page to view them.

Follow the link below to view the official photographer’s   website and some cracking photos.

Brownsea Swim Photos by David Beater

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