Loony Dook

[iandg]

No wonder you’re certifiable!
Happy New Year to you and your lovely family :-)

And to you and yours Fab Foodie

 

[iandg]

Embra folk are just mental, that's is all

From Stafford originally - Spike Milligan did spend some time at one of the psychiatric hospitals ther though, I believe.

 

[iandg]

Nah, it's the one on the right

The lady on my far left is an ex-masters world pursuit champion and the one in the middle in the wet suit my sister-in-law.

 

[iandg]

The OP is in Stornoway, which lies directly in the path of the Gulf Stream. Therefore, swimming there is like basking in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Allegedly. I have no intention of finding out! Well done @wicker man .

The waters off then western Isles is like having a hot bath.

About 9 deg C at the moment

 

[Bobby Mhor]

The lady on my far left is an ex-masters world pursuit champion and the one in the middle in the wet suit my sister-in-law.

Aye, first tall tale of 2018

 

[iandg]

 

[T4tomo]

The OP is in Stornoway, which lies directly in the path of the Gulf Stream. Therefore, swimming there is like basking in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Allegedly. I have no intention of finding out! Well done @wicker man .

my Dad tried that line when we went to the Isle of Arran on hols once. Even in August it was freezing, although no worse than the North sea off Whitby, which was home at the time.

 

[Brandane]

my Dad tried that line when we went to the Isle of Arran on hols once. Even in August it was freezing, although no worse than the North sea off Whitby, which was home at the time.

Yebbut..... Arran is sheltered from the Gulf Stream by the Mull of Kintyre. You were actually swimming in the River Clyde which is filled with the run off of water from the hills of west central and southern Scotland. Now that IS cold!

 

[Drago]

Yebbut..... Arran is sheltered from the Gulf Stream by the Mull of Kintyre. You were actually swimming in the River Clyde which is filled with the flushed lavatories of Glasgae and southern Scotland. Now that IS cold!

FTFY.

 

[numbnuts]

I went for a skinny dip

 

[Brandane]

I come from the Isle of Bute originally, which is also in the Firth of Clyde to the north of Arran. We have palm trees! The sunshine must have been photo-shopped in though .

 

[Pat "5mph"]

About 9 deg C at the moment

Well, I got pure soaked today, twice, on the commute.
It was around 5 Celsius on my way in, 3 on my ride home.
Does it count?

 

[Pale Rider]

There's an annual Boxing Day dip at Seaburn, near Sunderland.

Which is the North Sea.

However, as one of the lifeboatmen explained to me, the water temperature doesn't vary a great deal between summer and winter - something to do with it being such an enormous expanse of water.

What does vary is the air temperature, but in terms of falling in, you won't die of cold much quicker in winter than you would in summer.

Some general observations here:

https://loneswimmer.com/2010/02/08/ocean-temperature-variation/