The HAHN SUPER DRY FINE OCEAN SWIMMERS SERIES is on again in 2009/10. And this season, it's bigger and better ... 14 swims, starting with Dawny's Cockatoo Challenge, on November 22, and ending with a new swim at Bondi on Monday, April 26.
1st two placegetters in the Hahn Super Dry Fine Ocean Swimmers Series 2009/10 receive a trip -- to swim the Dardanelles, from Europe to Asia, Gallipoli to the Turkish mainland, on August 30 (click here for more info) for 1st, and a trip to the Mana Fiji SwimFest on September 10-12 (click here for more info) for 2nd. These are both terrific events.
 1st placegetter also receives an Olympus PEN E-P1 DSLR camera, by courtesy of Olympus Imaging. Olympus also are providing at each swim in the series random giveaways of two cameras, the Tough 8000 -- the camera that oceanswims.com uses in snapping your pitchers during ocean swims -- and the Tough 6010 -- well over $1,000 in value at each swim in the series!
Hahn Super Dry also are providing free cartons of Hahn Super Dry to each event particpating in the series to be used for free sampling and/or random prize giveaways.
As well, the first 20 placegetters in the Hahn Super Dry Fine Ocean Swimmers Series 2009/10 also will receive --
- A View Swim Gear pack valued at c. $100, including a Deluxe Mesh Bag to carry your swim gear, a pair of Visio V200AMR Fully Sick or Darth Vader goggles, a View Swim Towel, a pair of View Ear Plugs, and a bottle of View goggle cleaner/anti-fog spray. By courtesy of View Swim Gear. A terrific prize!, or
- A carton of Hahn Super Dry of your very own.
 Cossies - A level playing field
We are applying our cossies rule rule to events in the series for 2009/10. To be eligible for points from these swims, swimmers must wear conventional "budgy smuggler" or "sluggo" cossies (for blokes, that means cossies just covering essential components of the body) and conventional cossies for laydees, ie no arms or legs. This also means no neoprene or other hi-tech material, and only one pair of cossies at a time, please. FINA rules meaning nothing to us. We don't want a repeat of the farce that is the FINA handling of the cossie issue.
Subject to this cossie rule, all swimmers who take part in any of the swims included in the series automatically earn points in the series.
The Series - How it works
The series aims to encourage participation in a greater number of swims, particularly later in the season, and in new swims and country swims. See the list of swims below ...
Swims are (click swim name for handicap results) -
 As with last season, the series will reward participation and performance. We'll use the oceanswims.com handicap system to adjust times for age and sex. We produce a handicap finishing order, then calculate points on where you finished relative to the winner. It doesn't just count down according to your handicap position: it's based on how fast you swam relative to the winner.
Points will be awarded for each swim. You will need to take part in nine swims to qualify for the series, of which two swims must be in country areas (ie, outside Sydney).
View Swim Gear is supporting the series with event prizes.
The first series winner was Ben "Stand and Deliver!" Hall, an unassuming truckie from Liberty Grove. Last season's winner was Glistening Dave Helsham, a grizzled, if also unassuming graphic designer, photograrpher and artist from Mona Vale. These two winners show that, under our handicap system, anyone can win it.
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