Record Breakers!? - Extreme Ironing!

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big_si

Discussion Starter · May 23, 2008

Here's the few mails that I've exchanged on the back of Air Guzzlers thread a little while ago.

I think YD could be a record breaker and go down in history!!!

Could make a lot of money for charity too!

Air Guzzler said:
Hi Big Si,
I wrote a brief letter to the Guinness book of records about 4 weeks ago although i have not heard anything back from them, unfortunatley they cannot be contacted by phone :angry: .
I did have a couple of pm's from fellow Yders but not that much interest.

One member Mdemon did give me some contact details for stoney but until i hear anything back from GWR then ist a no show.

Ive just started a new project whihc has taken up some time but now its up and running i should have alittle more time to chace things along.
Thanks for the additional information an di would agree that Stoney would make sence as it more central.

John

big_si said:

Hi Air Guzzler,

I'm helping out (along with Paramedic Paul and Arfie) with this year's YD charity, RNLI, and Her Royal Highness Scubee is going to be YD Charity grand coordinator extraordinaire!

We remembered your extreme ironing thread and I wondered how you got on with this? Did you get much other interest?

It was your baby to start with so in my mind it would make sense for you to run with it and us to support you and help promote / encourage people / etc as much as possible to help it along and see if we can beat the amount YD raised last year for the RNLI?

I'm sure now that the charity has been officially announced and the sun is out and people are thinking about diving more we MUST be able to get many more than the 73 we need to snatch the title from the Aussies!

Undersea ironing record draws press | Oddly Enough | Reuters

extreme ironing bureau said:

"It was cold and I think they were bloody crazy," said local councillor Tom O'Connor, who with police helped authenticate the new record.

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So it looks like we would need to have someone there to authenticate it. I guess that might just be counting people in / out of the water with gear?

Seem to be few rules...

Extreme Ironing Bureau said:

Whilst the EIB, is a fairly laid back organisation, we have had to put together a few "rules" before we can verify an "official" new record.

Board size: A miniature board is ok (although we prefer to see full sized boards wherever possible). However, it can't be one of those tiny boards. It needs to be at least 1 metre long, 30 centimeters at the widest point and have legs.

Irons: No plastic toys irons, they must be real irons. Travel irons are fine.

Garment: Any garment is suitable, but it must be at least the size of a tea towell. It's hardly impressive to iron a handkerchief.

Ironing: There must be visual proof of ironing (a photo or video clip) and it should be at a recognisable and verifiable landmark. For example, there's enough pictures of the top of Everest to verify that one. And, it sounds stupid, but you MUST be outdoors - no indoor ironing counts.

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I guess my vote for location would be on the 6m shelf at Stoney Cove as it's central and if vis is 'alright' people could see it going on from the surface.

Also had vague thoughts on.... press and or TV coverage / see if Stoney will do discounted entry for ironers or make a contribution / celebrity participation / merchandise for the event (t-shirts?) / RNLI involvement/ people getting sponsorship? / donation of ironing boards?... just a few ideas to try to maximise donations from the event....

What do you think?

Cheers,

Si

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19696

· #81 · Sep 22, 2008

The raffle

Ok... so far, we have the VR£ from Delta P, and Helena at Scimitar has given us a days diving for a buddy pair

Should we be mustering up other likely suppliers?

I could phone Tony Backhurst, see if he is prepared to do something, or Oonasdivers?

I also have minor connection at Scubapro, who might be able to help.

Any other suggestions?

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big_si

Discussion Starter · #82 · Sep 22, 2008

I'm sure John Perrin would donate something shiny

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Arfie

· #83 · Sep 22, 2008

I'll tap up Richard at Seaskin to see what he can do, I have to pester him about the shears anyway.

I'm also awaiting a reply from Beaver about the T-shirts or if they want to include anything else.

How about Fourth Element? Jim Standing is a member on YD (StandingJim) or maybe one of the other undersuit manufacturers, what with it being in January and it being foooookin cold

Weezle might be a good one, with them also being a Yorkshire based manufacturer. Lumb Bros? Nackers? KT?

I've got to call into the recycling centre today to talk to the manager to see if they will let us have any ironing boards/irons. the duty manager tells me that they are not allowed to sell or give away anything (not sure how they are recycling then

) but he thinks with the purpose being to raise money for the RNLI they might bend the rules on ironing boards, but he doubts they'd let us have irons as they'd be in breach of WEEE regulations.

Arfie

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19696

· #84 · Sep 22, 2008

Arfie said:
I'll tap up Richard at Seaskin to see what he can do, I have to pester him about the shears anyway.

I'm also awaiting a reply from Beaver about the T-shirts or if they want to include anything else.

How about Fourth Element? Jim Standing is a member on YD (StandingJim) or maybe one of the other undersuit manufacturers, what with it being in January and it being foooookin cold Weezle might be a good one, with them also being a Yorkshire based manufacturer. Lumb Bros? Nackers? KT?

I've got to call into the recycling centre today to talk to the manager to see if they will let us have any ironing boards/irons. the duty manager tells me that they are not allowed to sell or give away anything (not sure how they are recycling then ) but he thinks with the purpose being to raise money for the RNLI they might bend the rules on ironing boards, but he doubts they'd let us have irons as they'd be in breach of WEEE regulations.

Arfie

Is borrowing the same as giving them away? :angel:

As for the irons, they don't have to have any cables or anything, so by removing some of the electrcs will that make them acceptable to lend us?

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Arfie

· #85 · Sep 22, 2008

I already tried both those approaches yesterday. They aren't allowed to let them go off the premises :sad: If they did let us have them I said I'd be delighted if they cut the cords off to prevent them being used (and it saves us doing it

)

Will try with the boss later

Arfie

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Arfie

· #86 · Sep 22, 2008

Bastard! He'd gone out.

Spoke to the duty manager form yesterday and he'd discussed it with the boss and he's up for helping if he can, though we are "fucking mental!" (he muct be a lurker

) He wants more info, so I've left my number, but the dut manager said even the irons should be OK. Turns out the boss is big into helping charidees but I'll wait to speak to him before I get too excited.

It seems they sent about 6 boards to the scrap yesterday before I'd arrived.

Will keep you informed.

Arfie

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19696

· #87 · Sep 22, 2008

I have emailed TB. I did phone, but apparently things are a little busy there right now

PM going to Lydia at OOnas.

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Arfie

· #88 · Sep 22, 2008

Oh I forgot, I am also awaiting replies from Morphy Richards and Rowenta/Tefal about whether they could supply us with some irons

Maybe some factory seconds or faulty ones etc.

Still waiting to hear from Beaver about the T-shirts, he'll be in tomorrow.

Sent an email to Richard at Seaskin and need to phone him tomorrow to see if we can get anything from him.

Arfie

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19696

· #89 · Sep 23, 2008

Whoo Hoo!!!

emma at oonasdivers said:
Dear Morag,

Thank you for your message. We would like to donate a prize to your
charity event of an Oonasdivers voucher worth £100.

Canm you let me know the full details of the event (is there info on the
website?) and I will get this news up on our news page to get you some
more publicity.

Many thanks

Regards,

Emma o

I have replied to her pointing her to the info thread, and given her additional details.

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big_si

Discussion Starter · #90 · Sep 23, 2008

EXCELLENT!!!! Nice work!!!!

I've advertised on our "Trading Post" at work (covers all UK GSK sites) asking for any ironing boards / irons that people could donate. I think I have 1 of each offered at the moment!

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GLOC

· #91 · Sep 23, 2008

Excellent.

I have spoken to Darren this morning and let him know that we are 'happy' with his proposals.

He has the VR3 from Delta. He also spoke to the Scubapoo rep who was very non-plussed about the event

Darren will be providing the 'dignitaries' and will also be canvassing his suppliers for prizes.

I will update the first post about how to pay and leave the raffle prize thing for the moment but taunt them with a few snippets - just values, not exact details, wait until we get another few prizes to make it public!!

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Arfie

· #92 · Sep 23, 2008

Richard at Seaskin has said he will donate a made to measure undersuit as a prize

. He may also come along and join in.

Arfie

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19696

· #93 · Sep 23, 2008

Arfie said:
Richard at Seaskin has said he will donate a made to measure undersuit as a prize . He may also come along and join in.

Arfie

you couldn't persuade him to donate a dry suit? Tsk

Gloc- which rep did Darren speak to? I don't know how many there are, or whether Matt (whois the one I know) is his rep as well.

Have we had sight of the poster copy? I need to get it tot eh RNLI before it gets published - I'd rather it went there from me than NDAC.

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Arfie

· #94 · Sep 23, 2008

Scubee said:
you couldn't persuade him to donate a dry suit? Tsk

I haven't finished with him yet

Have you asked the RNLI if they will send a presence there? They do have them going all over the country, there was a crew with a rhib collecting in Chesterfield not too long ago, and we couldn't be much further from the sea

They'd be useful surface cover too

Arfie

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19696

· #95 · Sep 23, 2008

Arfie said:
I haven't finished with him yet

Have you asked the RNLI if they will send a presence there? They do have them going all over the country, there was a crew with a rhib collecting in Chesterfield not too long ago, and we couldn't be much further from the sea They'd be useful surface cover too

Arfie

I'll ask them. I have a friend who crews on the weymuff boat.

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Arfie

· #96 · Sep 23, 2008

I think it would add some weight to the cause if they had an actual presence at the gig rather than just us lot spouting about it.

Arfie

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19696

· #97 · Sep 23, 2008

Arfie said:
I think it would add some weight to the cause if they had an actual presence at the gig rather than just us lot spouting about it.

Arfie

Agreed. I'll talk to them.

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19696

· #98 · Sep 25, 2008

Guys.... I am going to start the raffle today.

Given the value of the prizes we have been offered so far, and the number of tickets we ogutht o sell, I think £2 each is about right.

I have set up a seperate JG page for it, which will make life easier for me to issue appropriate numbers of tickets. Once I can get that link sorted out (the laptop isn't playing properly this morning

It would be good if we sold shedloads.

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