Three Merry Men to Undertake Liferaft Challenge
On the weekend of 11th/12th November 2017 Tristan Kemp, Ian Duncan-Lewis and Scott Curtiss have volunteered to undertake a particularly unusual water-based challenge. Liferafts are your last option when you find your boat is sinking, and any sailor will tell you, you don’t get in to one unless you absolutely have to! These three men however plan to hurl themselves, quite deliberately, into the Hamble River, from where they will hoist themselves onto a liferaft, where they will then stay for 24 hours.
Not only will it be very cold, but liferafts offer next to nothing in terms of protection, warmth and comfort! However, as men who have all known people who have suffered from cancer, they hope to raise as much money as possible for Sail 4 Cancer, which makes it all worth it.
Tristan says of the challenge:
“My sister was admitted to hospital 2 years ago, at the age of 32, with a suspected sickness bug. Following numerous tests they found a mass in her bowel. A tumour was blocking her bowel which was close to rupturing so she needed life-saving emergency surgery and about a week later she was diagnosed with bowel cancer. She underwent a course of chemotherapy at the Royal Marsden in Surrey and has since made a good recovery. Sail 4 Cancer have been instrumental in her recovery, providing a great deal of support and a family break, so I felt I wanted to do my bit to say thank you. This challenge appealed to me as I spend a large amount of my spare time on the water!
"My team mates are the result of a new partnership between my company, OSP Retail, and Relex Solutions. Ian and Scott have very kindly volunteered to join me in the liferaft - and I’m pretty sure we’ll have some good stories to tell at our office Christmas parties afterwards!”
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