Dentist windsurfs from Ireland to Scotland
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- Published: Monday, 04 July 2016 07:51
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Belfast dentist, Chris Loughridge, has windsurfed from Northern Ireland to Scotland in a record 100 minutes, through choppy waters. He set sail from Cushendall in County Antrim and arrived at the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse an hour and 40 minutes later. “I am over the moon”, he told the Belfast Telegraph afterwards.
He continued: “The weather was so fickle, I didn't know if I'd even make it. It changed so much, I didn't know where I'd end up when I sailed out. The wind direction changed completely. It was very difficult to sail - very choppy."
With the waves throwing him about so much, Chris felt that he had flown for much of the ride. "I was doing about 26 knots - I was in the air quite a bit," he said. With visibility "awful", Chris was concerned about missing his target - the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse. "I only saw it when I was about 400m away," he said. "We got it right on the nose. It was an absolutely incredible sight."
Chris said he had helped raise around £10,000 for Marie Curie cancer care.Just over half of that - £5,210 - has been donated so far on his JustGiving fundraising page. "I'm fundraising to support the amazing work that Marie Curie do," he said.
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