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jibberjim
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| GrahamO wrote: | | [quote="SGreg]In exactly the right direction? |
The route plot on the picture doesn't show exactly the right direction as it just shows a northerly route which could just be going with the flow.[/quote]
Don't be silly, water runs downhill!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:55 am Post subject: |
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But the earth is flat isn't it ?
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tin pot
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Hmm. This describes a northbound channel in the Irish Sea but doesn’t say how fast it is. Unless I missed it.
https://www.cefas.co.uk/Publications/posters/26573-2a.pdf
If he’s in the water only a few hours per day, it would have to be pretty fast to add up to 100 miles in three days. Even if he started kipping out there and floating north, surely...
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Symes
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Up to Isle of Man now, serious recent progress. One comment on FB:
"we can never give an exact location or time to catch up 😔 we might just anchor at sea, sleep and set off at 2am in the morning for example."
Guessing they either go close to land each time and then go back out to sea or they've got a ****ing long anchor rope/chain
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IronVampiro
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Anyone still interested in this? 
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ed_m
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| IronVampiro wrote: | | Anyone still interested in this? |
Ross apparently is... he's still busily vlogging away into thin air 
oh an looking at twitter the odd plug of his book & some advice from a guy called Ant.
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IronVampiro
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| ed_m wrote: |
Ross apparently is... he's still busily vlogging away into thin air
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Shame. This could have been a great challenge.
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oh an looking at twitter the odd plug of his book & some advice from a guy called Ant.
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Is that the SAS guy who wasn't in the SAS?
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ed_m
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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oh an looking at twitter the odd plug of his book & some advice from a guy called Ant.
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Is that the SAS guy who wasn't in the SAS? |
No idea.... apparently he has a book too.
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He's getting more mainstream coverage now. They just said he's going to be live on BBC Breakfast in the next 10mins
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ed_m
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| stenard wrote: | | He's getting more mainstream coverage now. They just said he's going to be live on BBC Breakfast in the next 10mins |
yip just broken a continuous swim type record or summat.... fair do mate.
(75days in to a swim that was going to take 100days and he's still on the west coast of Scotland.... oopsy.)
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| stenard wrote: | | He's getting more mainstream coverage now. They just said he's going to be live on BBC Breakfast in the next 10mins |
Yeah, something to do with an official world record up to this point.
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His "The World's Fittest Book" is on the Kindle daily deals for 99p
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Symes
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| doug wrote: | | His "The World's Fittest Book" is on the Kindle daily deals for 99p |
If only I had a Kindle, or 99p 
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jibberjim
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| doug wrote: | | His "The World's Fittest Book" is on the Kindle daily deals for 99p |
Whoever selects those books should've gone with The old man and the sea as the Hemmingway next to it rather than the For whom the bell tolls...
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