IMBD on 4 metre Avon RIB for Round Scotland Challenge 08

During the first week of August 2008 Hugo Montgomery Swan, owner of RIB International, and Paul Lemmer are taking a 4 metre (13 foot) Avon RIB around Scotland. They have fitted SKYDEX Impact Mitigating Boat Decking to this small RIB as they know they will be standing for much of their trip and want to reduce the effects of impacts from the deck.

The RIB International team now have SKYDEX IMBD on deck to help cushion the ride. Paul said, ‘We have already been out on some interesting sea trials on the South Coast of England. We are usually standing when it gets rough so the SKYDEX IMBD will be a great help under our feet. Deck cushioning is a really good idea and I look forward to testing it around Scotland’.

The event is to celebrate that it is 20 years since Michael  Alexander and Richard Frere used a 4 metre Avon Searider to undertake this same 500 mile passage. Open to all owners of 4 metre RIBs the challenge is to provide a unique opportunity to circumnavigate Scotland from Inverness and back to Inverness.

The course will take the RIBs down the Great Glen and Loch Ness to Fort William then up to Oban and Tobermory before heading up the Kyle of Lochalsh. From here it is under the Skye Bridge then up the west coast to Lochinver, on to the Minch then around the notorious headland of Cape Wrath to Scrabster. For the final 100 mile leg back to Inverness the boats will have to pass through the Pentland Firth and some of the world’s most extreme tidal waters.
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