We completed the challenge on Saturday 21st August from Cloghy in North Ireland to Silloth in Cumbria.  A distance of 110 miles in 9 hours non stop. Everyone made it safely but in one piece is debatable!

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Wright Walker Productions are producing a documentary of the trip which will be completed soon - watch this space.
Here are some recent radio interviews:-

BBC Radio Four - Friday 20th August BBC Radio Cumbria - Monday 23rd August

 

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Website Updates and Radio Programmes
August 25th
I've managed to get copies of Frasers interviews from Radio 4 Live on Friday morning and Radio Cumbria on Monday morning.I'm going to be updating the website over the next week or so hopefully to include the Radio Interviews and hopefully the border TV fo...
Border TV shows the crossing and Sir Richard is thwarted by the weather
August 24th
Border TV did a small piece on the crossing and made a bit of a mess of it by mentioning the website but not putting the caption up for the weblink. They said it would be fixed for the later program but again it was not right. Frustrating for us yet again...
Sir Richard Branson kitesurfing the English Channel
August 23rd
Well it seems like you can't do anything without a copycat event!Sir Richard Branson is going to kitesurf across the channel for his 60th Birthday, along with 5 time world champion Aaron Hadlow and Laird Hamilton.Good luck to them, this will raise the pro...
We finally did it!!
August 22nd
Well we finally did it. After two years of planning and several false starts we completed the crossing of the Irish Sea from Cloghy in Northern Island to Silloth in West Cumbria. We set of from Cloghy at 09:00 Saturday and landed at Silloth at 18:00 a dis...
Thanks to John Lowry and New Gin Zulu II
August 22nd
Just a quick up date to give a thanks to John Lowry over in Northern Ireland for the offer of boat support from the coast of Northern Ireland to rendezvous with the boats from Cumbria.http://southdowncoastguard.co.uk/We are into our second two week window...
Cancelled for today.
August 20th
Well the weather defeated us yet again. It was agreed that it was not safe for the boats and crew due to the wind speed and sea state. We are the process of discussing options for tomorrow. Meanwhile we are going to ride with some of the lads from NI.Fing...
Breakfast at Wong's Royale in Portavogie Northern Island
August 20th
We are over in Ireland having a leisurely breakfast waiting for the weather to clear. Its still pretty bad over in cumbria but it's clearing over here. The wind is looking good at the moment and the forecast is to drop. We are waiting for a decision from ...
We are go!
August 19th
We are heading to the ferry at Stranraer. The forecast is looking potentially good but could be on the strong side early in the morning. We've taken the chance and hopefully the boats will be able to sail. It's going to be touch and go!
Silloth Kite Festival
July 23rd
We are planning to do a downwinder if the conditions allow from Allonby to Silloth for the Silloth Kite and Water Sports festival.We will be taking the Gin Tent and have a pitch at the festival. Should be fun!I've changed to Video so the newly edited Prom...
Its been a while
July 10th
It's been a while since the last update, but we are still here and still looking to complete the crossing this year. Our training hasn't been as good as last year as the wind just hasn't been consistent. We had an excellent winter though with substantia...
Winter Blues
November 25th
Well winter is upon us and the clocks have gone back so kiting is limited to weekend sessions. We are still planning the crossing but its definitely going to be next year. A new cut of our promo video is being worked on and should be up soon. Many than...
This could be end of the road for this year
October 8th
Well we didn't go this time, again we made the call not to go as the weather is not ideal, the heavy rain that was originally coming in later has decided to head in early and the wind strength is higher than we anticipated (getting up to force 7, original...
We could be go!
October 7th
We could be go tomorrow morning. We are making the decision at 11:00am when we get a more accurate view of the forecast and discuss the situation with the support boats.Fingers crossed after 9 months of planning!
Not good news.
September 30th
Well we've had the most unusual September for a long time. Several blocking high pressures and the jet stream further north than usually has meant we've not had the wind or weather that would suit us. We are also running out of daylight hours at a rapid r...
Crossing postponed and more training
September 21st
We decided to postpone the trip at the last minute on Sunday morning due to the wind forecast. The metoffice was predicting up to force 8 and whilst its kiteable its not good for a long crossing. The boats would not sail in that sort of wind and the sea s...
Further weather update
September 21st
We have a further update for the weather from Dave Thompson. We are amber almost green for travel on sunday and attempting the crossing on monday. Forecast is looking excellent!! Hopefully the sea state will be good as we've had not much wind recently.Hi ...
Update on Weather
September 15th
It looks like our weather guru's are telling us that this blocking high pressure will be moving away towards the end of the weekend and bringing back southerly or south westerly winds again.If it does, and we'll know closer to the weekend, then we could b...
Sponsors funding and raising money
September 14th
Just got word from Stuart that he has secured funding from AMEC for the trip. This will complete our requirements to ensure that the boats and travel are fully funded, thank to Stuart and AMEC for this.It appears that people are not using the Just Giving ...
Back from Tiree - Another meeting - Long Range Forecast
September 11th
A couple of the riders had a mental trip in Tiree, 5 days out of 5 riding, some good waves and strong winds. There'll be footage and photographs on the Cumbria Power Kiting Club website.We've got the radios and we need to program them. We've also got wets...
Meeting - Tuesday 2nd September
September 1st
Well its getting close to the time now. We have two weeks until the window begins. The big training distance did not transpire we did not get the forecast wind for once, it was very light, way to light to attempt it. We've done a bit more riding in pretty...