Has anyone swam across the Forth?

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 22 Jul 2007, 23:53

I ask this question only because dont know the answer.

Rapunzell and I were at the pyramids, and watched a "drunken teenager " taking a dip in the Forth the other night.
He said when we weren't as old we would have tried it.

I was thinikng about the cold, Rapunzell about the "old"

Ned Barney, who swam the English Channel, was regularly seen taking a dip in the Forth ( early 80s, source of info , ME, I saw him )
BUT
does anybody know of anyone who has swam across the Forth?

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 22 Jul 2007, 23:59

PS the" drunken teenager "was nude

We only know he was drunk as that was he told us, he reckoned it was more difficult to swim the Forth than the Channel , hence the original question

(We were only keeping watch in case he got into difficulties )

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 23 Jul 2007, 00:04

That was quite an entertaining outing

I'm peering in the nearest mirror for grey hairs and wrinkles now!

I wonder if the Polish burd got some good photos? If not of him then of the collection of old doors..?

I'm sure I read about someone swimming across the Forth for a dare, will google for it.

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 23 Jul 2007, 00:21

Oh, forgot about all the doors going past.
Was it for a bonfire?
Does anyone know?

There was also a gathering to the west that night

Dont worry think it was my grey hairs the shivering one was referring to
its because they're longer than average there seems to be more of them
Now, where did I leave the Clairol ( now that all L'Oreal gets you is a tart

)( Porty started it)

PS if offered I'll take the tart over grey hair

rathbone · Post by **rathbone** » 23 Jul 2007, 10:57

The first person to swim the Forth was, in fact, Ned Barney in September 1924. ( I think it was 8 Sept. but I haven't been able to confirm that.)

He plunged in at Burntisland, on the North side, struggled for 4 hours and 10 minutes with swirling tide rips and deadly cold patches, before he stumbled ashore at Granton, on the South side.

A direct line from Burtisland to Granton is only six miles; Barney covered ten, owing to the currents.