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Spacious & Gracious is a site about living and being in Folkestone. We expect to sometimes be irreverent, and hopefully to be amusing and entertaining. Please do send over any Folkestone based news and we will do our best to include it on the site.

F.O.W.S.C

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The Folkestone Open Water Swimming Club are a group of friends who swim in the beautiful Folkestone sea at various times throughout the year.

The swim is busiest during the July to September months when most members are active, but some members can be found to be swimming throughout the year, weather permitting of course.

We are very partial to some big wave action.

A map showing the location of the official F.O.W.S.C Beach


View F.O.W.S.C Beach in a larger map

If you would like to join the F.O.W.S.C please do get in touch via the contact page, and we will see you there!

Follow us here on Flickr, photos are uploaded from every F.O.W.S.C session.

Folkestone tide times information can be found here

Folkestone weather information can be found here

Please see some stats for 2009 sessions below :

Swim date
Air temperature
Water temperature
Attendees
12/04/09
Unknown
10 degrees
Vince, Sam
26/04/09
28 degrees
10 degrees
Vince, Sam
24/05/09
16 degrees
12.5 degrees
Vince, Sam,
Gregg, Shane
31/05/09
20 degrees
14 degrees
Nature Sam,
Vince, Sam
14/06/09
Unknown
15 degrees
Nature Sam,
Vince, Sam
19/06/09
Unknown
15 degrees
Vince, Sam
27/06/09
27 degrees
16 degrees
Nature Sam,
Vince, Sam, Leigh

Upcoming events


  • Jan Holben: Just brilliant - loved every minutes. Thanks to all who organised this event, the musicians and everybody who took part.
  • Jan H: I couldn't get to sunny sands in time to see this event unfortunately....so thanks for sharing this video - it looks like everybody had a great time.
  • Flix: Thanks to all those who came to the exhibition , especially those of you who commented in the visitors' book

F.O.W.S.C PhotoStream

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