CuttingWater

Saturday, July 6, 2019

25 Anniversary Swim... Finished



Greeting from Dover, enjoying a day by the sea with a few muscle aches after yesterday and I'm over the multiple jellyfish ZAPS, but I am happy to say I will be able to swim another day... next stop is in Bridgeport CT for the Swim Across the Sound. I'll be doing a 2-person relay with my childhood team mate,Geoffrey Michaud, both of us grew up on the Manchester Rec Swim team... great memories, we'll talk about that next week.

THANK YOU for all your kind words of encouragement and congratulations messages, The English Channel is NEVER an easy swim, and I had to pull out a multitude of tricks from my experience vault and prayers to get through it, I was a hurting puppy.
Yesterday, the planets were aligned perfectly and the greek gods Aeolus, the keeper of the winds, were smiling down on us... and Poseidon may have not seen I was in the sea (experiences from the past). We had fantastic conditions and landed under the cliffs of Cape Gris Nez, France, 12 hours, 34 minutes, a pretty good time for senior swimmer on the high spring tide...even though it felt like 15 hours.

This is a TEAM event, MANY Thanks for my TEAM: Janet (Jmg Fish) keeps me fed and looks over me, trying to keep me entertained or at least smiling through the tough patches.Dave Chisholm was her 'to go to man' pictures, heating water... and finally a safety escort to the rocks, so SPECIAL, because on his crossing in 2008, I had the pleasure to be his Observer and escort him to the beach.

Then there is the boat team, so important, it certainly takes a special breed of person with patience to guide a swimmer across the Straits, my pilot, Michael Oram plotted out a perfect course for me the reach my original Boulder that I landed at 25 years ago, but I just wasn't strong enough to get past the Cape, so that is why we landed on the north side of the cape (the tide had changed and blew me north.)
Tanya Harding and Mike Ball sat patiently at the wheel, watching and guiding me safely across Le Manche for a 17th time, THANK YOU.

My advice to all the aspiring swimmers... Be Patient, you will get there and the discomfort, even misery will be temporary and 24 hours late, you will probably forget all about those parts and remember the SUCCESS.

There are some pictures from yesterday and I will be posting more when I finish organizing them... on my blog www.cuttingwater.blogspot.com

Dream, Prepare, Succeed
Marcy
 


  






 


 

 



 

 



 





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Thank You Janet

2 comments:

  1. I would want to know one curious factor. After 25 years, and finding your most authentic true self in these waters.....are you comfortable with your result of this crossing?
    Thank you for being the true model we all can emulate.
    Ill go tell Ron (Anderson) about your next round in Bridgeport witb Geoff.
    Forward LOVE to you, Champ

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    1. I do not feel too unknown.
      This is Jeffrey Stuart

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2015 ... Swimming for Homes for the Brave

After spending the past 20 years paddling from Dover to France, it is time to venture into new waters, while helping some special people.
Soon, I will be traveling with my A-team to Scotland to swim the length of the famous Loch Ness.
As always, I try to help a Foundation raise funds and awareness and I thank you for interest and support.
I am deeply troubled with the thought of homeless individuals, especially in our US Veteran population.

That is why I am teaming up with our Connecticut-based “Homes for the Brave”. Can you imagine not having a place to call home?

Here is more information about Homes for the Brave! -Facebook pages – https://www.facebook.com/pages/ABRIHomes-for-the-Brave/199613606735630?ref=hl

- Annual Appeal with more information about our financials and programs- http://www.homesforthebrave.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/HFTB-2014-Annual-Report-FINAL.pdf

-Check donations can be mailed to the following address:
Homes for the Brave
655 Park Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06604

- Donations can be made online as well: https://homesforthebrave.isecuresites.com/products/index.php?type=1110

Please write “Loch Ness Swim/Marcy” to track your donation.


I will always be dedicating my swimming to all those battling cancer and in the memory of 4 special people in my life. Cancer first hit my family when I was young. My grand-aunt Eleanor Kersavage, passed away with uterine cancer and my Auntie Bea Halchak battled with brain cancer.

On January 1, 2002, our LEHY family lost Nikki Giampolo to bone cancer, just turning 16 years old. Her spirit still lives on in our East Hartford swim team.

In July of 2009, my brother-in-law, Gregory Allen Urban, who passed away, after a valient battle with lung cancer. I can see him now, talking about cars and projects around the house, music and his family.

I know Aunties, Eleanor and Bea, Nikki, Greg and all the angels will help me CUT through all this water this summer.

The St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, based in Bridgeport, CT provides financial support for the needs that Health insurance companies don't cover, in addition to providing affordable cancer screening, wigs, medication and other things to make life easier for those suffering with cancer and their families.

Please make a donation, and thank you.

Online donations can be made at: http://give.stvincents.org

or you can send a check through the post to:

Swim Across the Sound
St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation
2800 Main Street
Bridgeport, CT 06606
(203)576-5451

Thank you so very much, peace and good health to all.