Matt Wild
Matt Wild is the proprietor and brewmaster of BrewBabu in Oundle, Peterborough, UK. He celebrated the Jonathan Ratcliffe's Oceans Seven achievement that was nominated for the 2019 WOWSA Awards in the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year category with a pale ale called Wave Warrior.
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2020 WOWSA Awards
Wave Warrior by Matt Wild was nominated for the 2020 WOWSA Awards in the World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year with the following nomination: From Captain Matthew Webb in the English Channel to Marilyn Bell on Lake Ontario, memorials and landmarks dot shorelines here and there around the globe commemorating a small handful of the greatest channel and marathon swimmers in history. Jonathan Ratcliffe figuratively entered the Parthenon of great swimmers with his year-end achievement of the Oceans Seven in 2019. With five children, ages between 10 and 25, each of them crewed individually alongside his wife on his seven challenging crossings, making the Oceans Seven truly a family affair. Matt Wild of BrewBabu celebrated Ratcliffe's achievement with a specialty pale ale called Wave Warrior, an appropriately named for the British financier's distance swims in waterways that were often cold and turbulent. For creating a specialty brew to celebrate one of the 21 people in history to achieve the Oceans Seven, for coming up with a great name to commemorate Ratcliffe's Oceans Seven, and for helping promote the Oceans Seven and share Ratcliffe's goal for his challenge charity efforts, Wave Warrior by Matt Wild of BrewBabu is a worthy nominee for the 2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nomination
Ratcliffe's Oceans Seven Cook Strait crossing was nominated for the 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year award as follows:
Jonathan Ratcliff uses his Oceans Seven channel swims to raise money and awareness for CROPS. He valiantly completed the last 4 of his Oceans Seven channels in the final 8 months of 2019 with a massively difficult crossing of the 23 km Cook Strait in New Zealand. The 46-year-old father – whose wife and children accompany him in his escort boats – faced tidal challenges, whirlpools, currents and large ocean swells on his tough 11 hour 15 minute crossing from the North Island to Sound Island. Despite the cold water and difficult conditions that he faced right from the start until his last stroke, Ratcliffe was mentally focused and physically determined to become the 19th person in history to complete the Oceans Seven. For his charitable acts and swims that fund mentors to help develop the untapped potential of teenagers in Peterborough, for his difficult 8-month push to complete the Oceans Seven as a family affair, and for his long, difficult crossing of the Cook Strait on the last possible day of his swim window, Jonathan Ratcliffe’s Ocean Seven is a worthy nominee for the 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.
Finish of Cook Strait Crossing & Oceans Seven
External links
- 2020 WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees
- Cheers To Jonathan Ratcliffe, Warrior Of The Waves
- BrewBabu Facebook page
- BrewBabu Facebook page
- Jonathan Ratcliffe Makes The Oceans Seven A Family Affair
- Oundle dad becomes 19th person in history to complete gruelling global swim challenge
- Swimmer nears finish line in epic challenge which only 18 other people have ever completed
- CROPS works in Greater Peterborough
- Jonathan Ratcliffe, Swimming Through The Night Into Daybreak
