Looking for a yacht for world record length of Britain charity swim

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Hi Guys

In July 2013 I'm going to attempt to become the first person to swim the length of Britain. I'm swimming the iconic Land's End to John O'Groats up the west coast. It's going to be one of the hardest swims of all time and I am trying to raise money for War Child in Africa. I'll be swimming the equivalent of the Channel every day for two months as I battle the 1000 mile coastal swim.
To find out more about me go to: www.SeanConway.com and more about the swim at: www.SwimmingBritain.co.uk

See route here: http://www.seanconway.com/2013---swimming-britain.html

To try and cut cost so that we can give more to War Child I am looking for anyone who has a 30ft bilge keel yacht that needs a bit of TLC. I'm proposing to get it cleaned up for you if you would be so kind as to lend it to me as a support boat. I'll need it from mid June to the end of September. Ideally it would be great if you had it on a trailer too but not the end of the world.

So there we have it. I'll clean your boat up for you and insure it if you let me use it for my charity swim. Please email me on contact@seanconway.com

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours in Adventure.


Sean Conway
My email is contact@seanconway.com
Twitter: Conway_Sean
 
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Haven't we had this before?

After a lot of faffing about, I thought we discovered that you intend to do it mainly through canals and rivers rather than by the sea.

Not sure how much use a 30ft bilger would be if this is still your intention
 
A trailer won't be much use for a 30 footer - it would almost certainly be too big to tow on the roads, or require an unfeasibly powerful and heavy vehicle. Boats of that sort of size usually travel on a low-loader or similar, if they are transported by road.
 
A project, don't you hate that man on the Wicks advert when he says "project", like this might be better supported with a rib?
 
Cheers. Good advice!

AntarcticPilot said:
A trailer won't be much use for a 30 footer - it would almost certainly be too big to tow on the roads, or require an unfeasibly powerful and heavy vehicle. Boats of that sort of size usually travel on a low-loader or similar, if they are transported by road.
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I predict that you will have more problems trying to find a place to berth the yacht every night, 20 miles apart, than you will doing the swim. All weather ports down the west coast are very few and far between.

For example, leave Holyhead on the ebb, gets you to maybe Caernarfon Bar at low water. Wait 5 hours before you can cross it, weather permitting, or go back to Holyhead. Next day, yacht leaves Holyhead at high water to retrace steps to previous stop point, arrives near to low water. Then what? The new flood will be 2-3 knots, so wait 6 hours for the ebb.

This will be repeated all the way down the Irish Sea and St Georges Channel. A fast mobo is the only possibility IMHO, a small yacht not an option.
 
Great advice. Cheers for that. Ive got a rib that will take me to start and end points each day. Yacht doesn't need to be with me at all times. Will that work. I'm new to this so any tips would be great.

vyv_cox said:
I predict that you will have more problems trying to find a place to berth the yacht every night, 20 miles apart, than you will doing the swim. All weather ports down the west coast are very few and far between.

For example, leave Holyhead on the ebb, gets you to maybe Caernarfon Bar at low water. Wait 5 hours before you can cross it, weather permitting, or go back to Holyhead. Next day, yacht leaves Holyhead at high water to retrace steps to previous stop point, arrives near to low water. Then what? The new flood will be 2-3 knots, so wait 6 hours for the ebb.

This will be repeated all the way down the Irish Sea and St Georges Channel. A fast mobo is the only possibility IMHO, a small yacht not an option.
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Good effort that. Luckily I don't have to cross that channel. Ive got Dave Cornthwaite who did 1000 miles down a river and Ben Fogle who is swimming the Atlantic as a benchmark!

myquest said:
Have you talked to Wayne Soutter. Have a look at the clip in this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19388990 and ask yourself whether you can do swims like this every day for two months (or more I would think).
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Conseanway said:
Cheers for that. Just emailed him! Nice one!
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I don't want to be too pessimistic but Florence Chadwick who broke the England France channel record for both men and women after years of training, afaik was not able to complete the Portpatrick Donaghadee crossing : about 22 miles.
 
The crossing is hard. Staying along the coastline is not nearly as bad. Thanks for the heads up though.

Sybarite said:
I don't want to be too pessimistic but Florence Chadwick who broke the England France channel record for both men and women after years of training, afaik was not able to complete the Portpatrick Donaghadee crossing : about 22 miles.
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