RNLI Castle to Castle

Sunday 30th June 2024

The Castle 2 Castle swim is an iconic one-mile open water sea swim across the Carrick Roads. It starts at Pendennis Castle in Falmouth and finishes at St Mawes Castle on the Roseland Peninsula.

This year’s iconic open water swim in Falmouth has seen a new record time and nearly £40,000 raised to support the charity that saves lives around our Cornish coasts.

On Sunday 28 May 2023

417 swimmers took to the start line at Crab Quay on Pendennis Point ready to take on the one mile open water swim, which finished at St Mawes Castle on the Roseland Peninsula. The faster swimmer, Felix Hinton-Smith, completed the swim in a record time of 21 mins 43 seconds, with over 60 other swimmers completing the mile long course within 30 mins. For many participants, it was the challenge of completing the event that was their target and the last swimmer did so in one and 15 minutes.

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