Crossings: Isles of Scilly

A little warmer than the Irish Sea, the crossing to the Isles of Scilly may not be the longest but it takes the sea paddler away from the psychological comfort of the UK coastline to venture tentatively 22 nm out into the rolling Atlantic. The destination is a beautiful one and definitely worth the trip, just pick the best of the weather.

Image: Isles of Scilly, Richard Sims

** NOTE: For crossings we've used the 'walkaway rule' since 2014. This is doubly relevant on the Scillies Crossing. If you are aiming for a time on this one then you must time to a beach where you can step out and walk away to your destination. This likely means timing to a beach on St Martin's.
Times taken from any point other than a beach start and landing will only show on the 'Escorted / Various' table. **

Legacy times (pre-2014) stand as shown. See - Submitting A Time

Isle of Scilly

Route Distance: ~23 nm / 43 km
Prevailing direction: NE >> SW

Solo

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Posn.	K1W	Cat	Paddler	Elapsed	Date	Start	Finish	Boat	Verified	Note	Link1
1		K1M	Richard Sims	04:03:07	02-Jul-11	Sennen Cove	Hanjaque Rock*	Kirton Inuk	--	Hanjaque Rock	Link1
2		K1M	Andy Morton	04:45:00	May-12	Sennen Cove	Eastern Rocks*	Valley Nordkapp LV	--	Eastern Rocks
3		K1M	Joe Leach	05:56:10	24-Aug-21	Sennen Cove	Hugh Town St Mary's	Rockpool Taran	--
4		K1M	Steve Porter	06:01:00	06-Sep-12	Sennen Cove	Great Ganilly	SKUK Explorer	--	Sail
5		K1M	Richard Sims	?	03-Jul-11	Hanjaque Rock*	Sennen Cove	Kirton Inuk	--	Hanjaque Rock	Link1

5 solo paddlers.
CW = clockwise, CCW = counter-clockwise

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Teams

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Posn.	Cat	Paddler	Elapsed	Date	Start	Finish	Boat	Verified	Note	Link1
1	K2_Ski	Guy Blackford / Glenn Eldridge	03:41:46	01-Oct-09	Sennen Cove	St Mary's		--		Link1
2	Team	Richard Sims JP ?	04:31:00	2008				--
3	Team	Rob Feloy Sean Morley John Tipping	04:36:00	09-Jul-99	Sennen Cove	St Martins	Kirton Inuk Voyager Double	--		Link1
4	Team	Phil Butler Dillon Hughes Steve Miles	05:30:00	08-Aug-05	Sennen Cove	St Agnes	Valley Skerray ? Double	--
5	Team	Kevin Francis Mark Rainsley	06:01:00	16-Jul-05	Sennen Cove	Great Ganilly	Valley Nordkapp Kaspian	--
5	Team	Jen Clough Mark Rainsley	06:01:00	25-Aug-17	Sennen Cove	Great Ganilly		--
7	Team	Michal Madera Natalie Maderova	06:13:00	11-Apr-17	Sennen Cove	Innisidgen St Mary's	Tiderace Extra HV Tiderace Extra HV	--		Blog
8	Team	Kevin Francis Mark Rainsley	06:41:00	17-Jul-05	Great Ganilly	Senne Cove	Valley Nordkapp Kaspian	--
9	Team	John Chamberlin Ian Copestake Steve Nelson Tim Oldrini	07:50:00	30-Apr-93	Sennen Cove	Porth Cressa via Menawethan	P+H Iona (x2) P+H Baidarka (x2)	--
10	Team	Phil Butler Dillon Hughes Steve Miles	08:33:00	10-Aug-05	Bar Point	Sennen Cove	Valley Skerray ? Double	--

25 team paddlers in 10 teams

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Various

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Cat	Paddler	Elapsed	Date	Start	Finish	Boat	Verified	Note	Link1
Team	Aaron Buckingham Aisling Ni Chuinn Richard Harpham Ollie Jay Geoff Tilford	10:00:00	02-May-09	Lamorna Cove	Hugh Town, St Mary’s		--	Escort

5 paddlers in 1 teams

Notes: Various

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Notes

Aaron Buckingham / Aisling Ni Chuinn et al. (02-May-09)
At the age of 14, Aaron is possibly the youngest to have made this crossing.

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Andy Morton : (May-12)
Timed between Sennen and Eastern Rocks.

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Steve Porter : (06-Sep-12)
From Steve: "I made the classic mistake of not checking my skeg was working after launching and was already a good mile offshore before realising it was stuck ! Then rigged a home-made skeg out of my spare paddle and deck elastic.....hmmm...silly."

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Richard Sims : (02-Jul-11)
Timed between Sennen and Hanjaque Rock. Please read PSK Info pages for timing of crossings. Future crossings to be timed to a landing point iaw the 'Walkaway Rule'.

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Richard Sims : (03-Jul-11)
Timed between Sennen and Hanjaque Rock.

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Isle of Scilly
16 completions -- 5 solo + 10 team + 1 escorted
35 paddlers in total (5 solo / 25 team / 5 escorted

Route Distance: ~23 nm / 43 km
Prevailing direction: NE >> SW
Recorded Start Points:

• ?? (1)
• Bar Point (1)
• Great Ganilly (1)
• Hanjaque Rock* (1)
• Lamorna Cove (1)
• Sennen Cove (11)




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