Downstream

for getting permission to hold
the swims, ‘for the first
couple of years of the Classic
we didn’t seek permission
from the EA but we certainly
do now’, while ‘the regatta
people are charming and
helpful, they grudgingly
accept our existence’.
At first they tried to ensure
that swimmers wore wetsuits,
of which Tom is a big fan.
‘There is a snobbish anti-
wetsuit attitude, but it means