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OW swimming in south dublin

  • 09-05-2011 9:50pm
    #1
    kingQuez
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    I've a few questions, maybe someone here might know the answers :)

    1. Can you (as in, is it practical) swim from the end of the south wall to the end of the pier in dun laoghaire? Often end up running between them, and love the idea of jumping in and swimming across. It looks to be about 4-4.5k, but I've no idea how the tides work (how strong they are, and what time you reasonably would have to try and cross) and what permission (if any) you'd need to do it.

    2. There's a 5 yellow buoys in the bay at seapoint, anyone any idea how far apart they are? I'm terrible at estimating distance by sight, but I'd guess at somewhere between 50m and 100m..

    3. If you want to do a slightly longer swim out there, is it practical to swim from seapoint across to the wall of dun laoghaire harbour, and then out along the side of the harbour wall to the end of the pier? Are there lots of rocks or anything else that would make this a bad idea?

    Cheers,


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  • #2
    mad m
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    South wall, Poolbeg? If it is, Swimleinster with Half Moon swim club do a swim callled the Tommy Durgan, its a 5K swim from Seapoint/Windsurfers pier. They have boats but they would like you to have a boat along side you while you swim. They put Bouys 1k apart all the way to Half Moon swimming club.
    The fastest time last year to do it was by a swimmer called Christoper Bryan at 1hr 5sec.....

    From having talks with lads I swim with, one year they were half way across with no problems then it turned into a fight for survival as it got very rough. As for permission I'm not sure.

    The yellows bouys at Seapoint are markers for speedboats and the like to stay away because people normally swim there. from Windsurfers out to last bouy and back is probably around 1500meters or less, but I may be wrong....Seapoint to Windsurfers has a lot of rocks, when the tides are out maybe worth a look so you can guage where they are if your out swimming. A friend and I normally swim out to the (What he calls it "The Rock") at full tide you can't see it but when you swim out to it, you can stand on it. Its maybe halfway between Seapoint and Windsurfers pier.


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