My old boss and good friend Gary Crum is now director of this 2 mile ocean swim. IT is named after his dad and one of our ex chiefs and he asked me if I had, or knew anyone who had old printed results pre 1980. I did the swim in 80 and probably a few times before, but i threw out any of that stuff a long time ago. I know some of you here do the swim, perhaps you were there back in the 70's, or know someone that was?

Trouble for all the guys i know is that this swim was the morning after the Lifeguard Taplin competition, which went off at 9 PM. Then we all proceeded to get drunk and naked at some lifeguard party, which almost always ended up closing down whatever joint would allow 400 drunk lifeguards and groupies to enter their establishments.

And any of you in the LA area that want a great 2 mile OW swim to do, always the first week of August. Been going since 62, and i can say with 100% confidence that the course has never moved. Both piers are right where they always have been, so a fun race to compare from year to year. They even caved and now have a separate woman's start, and a wetsuit division. Used to be one of the last start everyone together and no wetsuit swims, but got to roll with the times.

Here is the results page, looks like they need 82 too. Check out the 80 race and the young hotshot in 10th. Fastest i ever went. And the 16 year old girl in 3rd is Diane Graner who in her 50's still gets close to top 10 overall. She even won one year overall, the best OW swimming woman I ever had to pleasure to know, surf swims that is..

http://www.surffestival.org/.../2014SwimResult.html