Cleggin Pier to Inishboffin swim

This swim was on the 18th of August 2007 and this was my 3rd swim in consecutive weeks and I had flown from USA to Ireland after the Pennock Island swim. This swim would be of 13 kms long from swimming from Cleggin Pier in Ireland out Inishboffin Island and then we would stay on Inishboffin Island. But on the morning of the swim there was a strong head wind and big swells which we would be swimming against if we did the planned swim. We did not know that we were on the outside of a cyclone and therefore the winds were very strong. The organisers decided that we would boat over to Inishboffin Island and then do a swim from Inishboffin Island over to Inish Lyon Island . But once we got to Inishboffin Island we realised that it would not be possible to swim out to Inish Lyon Island. So the organisers decided to do a 4 laps of a course that lay in the lye of Inish Boffin Island. The water temperature I am not sure what it was but I know it was a lot colder than the previous weeks Pennock Island challenge in Alaska. The laps were about 3.2kms long and every time you got outside of the lay of Inishboffin Island you got this incredible blast of wind. After 3 laps totalling about 10kms my paddler was finding it very difficult in which to blow the whistles and direct me and at the end of our 3rd lap we left the water along with a lot of the other competitors. I think all competitors were very happy to complete their respective swims in these trying conditions.