Channel swimming.com

Thinking of swimming or Crossing the English Channel ? Interested in long distance open water swimming Read on

- Hi - Smile - Alison Streeter MBE

This is one of the Personal Web sites of Michael, Angela & Lance Oram

Welcome to Channel Swimming.com

Site Owners: Michael & Angela Oram

Are you Interested in long distance open water swimming? Are you thinking of swimming the English Channel - need to know how you can do it - how much it costs - what is involved or where to stay?

Do you need help to organise a Channel row, sail or other type of crossing? Are you in need of registered certificated escort boats with qualified crews?

Our e-mail address ismichael.oram@btinternet.com We will do our best to help.

Do you want to find out where to get information on the World's swims, are you looking for contacts with other swimmers or organisations?

Need to know how to train - where to train - want other help or advice?

We have plans to pack "channelswimming.com" with training information - navigation & weather explanations - the season's tide tables - pilot & pilot boat information - plus a whole lot more. We have set up pages for "news", "question & answer", "contacts" and "visitors book" and a page of worldwide links to help you find the other sites that can help you. --

If you have or know a site that you would like to link, e-mail us at the address below.

The site is a personal one that is maintained by Michael & Angela Oram.

We have both been intensively involved in the administration, organizing, assisting and piloting/escorting of English Channel swims, and other types of Channel crossings, for the past 25 years. I have personally piloted over 450 crossings in that time, our son, Lance, has piloted over 250 crossings.

My swims records show a 76% success rate. --Lances swim records show a 78% success rate.

At the moment I am the Hon. Sec. and Angela the Assistant Hon. Sec of the CS&PF (Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation).

To help with the site information we have enrolled the assistance of our large circle of friends and associates to give their advice and pass on their experience. --

Want to get in touch with us -- e-mail michael.oram@btinternet.com

Have you seen www.channelswimming.net the official Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation site? This site is also maintained by us and has a lot of information on it including all the CS&PF successful solo and relay results to date and information in the "Standard letter" (link on the home page) on how to go about setting up a Channel Swim. This

There is a very active "Swimmers Chat site" that is free to anyone interested in open water swimming. If you are interested in making contact with other swimmers send us your e-mail address that you would like to choose for membership and ask us to send you an invitation to join.

Pressing the link buttons on the left will take you to the other site pages.
This site is expanding fast and we are still building it - all the pages are not active at the moment but they have been added to set up future links and to show the way we are thinking. Some pages (like the swimlists of the successful Channel solo & relay swims to date), will take a bit of time to load depending on the computer and modem you are running. If you are experiancing any problems with the site or have any suggestions for it please let us know.

"Follow us over via Dover"

Reproduced with permission of ADMIRALTY CHARTS & PUBLICATIONS - not to be used for navigation