Good morning everyone, this is a general update to bring you up to date with Chris and my (Penny’s) Hawaii swims planned for April 2010.
As expected it’s taken some planning, organising and many, many emails to get us to this point but we are making progress and the big picture is finally in place.
Our flights are booked; we’ll be in Hawaii from April 19th through May 5th.
We’ve book an apartment in Waikiki at Kuhio Plaza and we have a hire car booked for the stay.
Every thing is looking ok with my pilot Don and we’re still awaiting final word from Jim for Chris’ swim, but Don is available if necessary.
Penny’s crew for the Kauai Channel are all set, they are Forrest Nelson from Los Angeles, Bill Goding from Hawaii, Jeff Kozlovich also Hawaii and Neil Vaughn from Australia.
Chris’s crew for the Molokai Channel are Quinn Carver from Hawaii, we are still waiting on confirmation from Kathryn Taylor and Chris will need one or two others, possibly Neil, Forrest, Jeff or Bill.
This will depend on the availability of crew members and when the weather is looking good for swimming. Volunteers will still be gratefully received; we’re hoping to keep the crew as fresh as possible to enable them to put 100% into their tasks.
Chris is set to swim anytime the weather looks good after we arrive from April 21st, Penny’s swim will also be according to the weather after 23rd which is when Forrest arrives from LA.
Now we start to look at the finer details of the swim, this week we’re taking a close look at where a good place would be to commence my (Penny’s) swim.
Again I thank everyone for their time, knowledge and encouragement it’s really great to know that we’ve such a great team behind us.
With only five weeks until we board our plane there’s still plenty of work to be done in and out of the water, but it is starting to fall into place and that’s exciting.
Bring on the taper….
Best wishes to you all.
Penny & Chris
Picture by Jeff Kozlovich, don’t forget to check his blogspot http://kozhawaii.blogspot.com/
Also Steven Munatones www.thewaterisopen.com