Pier-to-pier
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noun - A pier-to-pier swim is a point-to-point open water swimming competition from one pier to another pier along the coast. There are many pier-to-pier open water swims or around-the-pier open water swims along the coast of California. Pier-to-pier swims are related to but dissimilar from around-the-pier swims.
Usage
The Newport pier-to-pier swim is a charity swim for the local lifeguards.
Types of Open Water Swim Courses
- A geometric course refers to the triangular, rectangular or any other multi-side shape of an open water swim. It generally has the start and finish at the same point, but not always. The start and finish can be in the water or on land.
- A circumnavigation course is a round-trip open water swim around an island. It can also be referred to as a circumnatation.
- A loop course refers to the shape of an open water swim where swimmers swim around buoys in any geometric shape (e.g., circular, triangular or rectangular), generally starting and finishing at the same point (or around a peninsula or pier or jetty or coastal outcropping).
- A ship-to-shore course refers to a course that begins on a ship or boat or other type of marine vessel and ends on a nearby shoreline. It can also be referred to as a point-to-point course.
- A point-to-point course refers to the shape of an open water swim where swimmers start and finish at two separate points that can be on land or in the water at a fixed position. It can also be referred to as a linear course or a pier-to-pier course or P2P course.
- An out-and-back course course refers to the shape of an open water swim where athletes start onshore, head out to a point away from shore in a bay, ocean, sea, lake or estuary, and then return back to the finish at the same point where the swim started.
- A bank-to-bank course refers to a course that starts on one bank (of a river or shore) and finishes on the opposite or other bank.
- An island-to-island course is a point-to-point swim from one island to another.
- An offshore course is where a majority or all of an open water swim is located far offshore, away from a continent or mainland.
- A coastal course is an open water swim where most of the course is located along a coast or shoreline.
- A transoceanic course is an assisted stage swim or relay across one of the world's oceans, either a transpacific swim or a transatlantic swim.
- A stage course is one leg of a stage swim that consists of a number of swims held on consecutive days where the start of one leg begins at the end of the swim on the previous day.
Piers in California
Southern California
- Coronado Ferry Landing, San Diego
- Crystal Pier, San Diego County
- San Clemente Pier, Orange County
- Manhattan Beach Pier, Los Angeles County
- Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara
- Balboa Pier, Newport Beach
- Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier, Long Beach
- Hermosa Beach pier, Hermosa Beach
- Huntington Beach Pier, Huntington Beach
- Newport Pier, Newport Beach
- Ocean Beach Pier, San Diego
- Oceanside Pier, Oceanside
- Redondo Beach pier, Redondo Beach
- Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica
- Broadway Pier, San Diego
- Malibu Pier, Malibu
- Catalina Island Pier, Catalina Island
- Pacific Beach Pier, San Diego
- Seal Beach Pier, Seal Beach
- Venice Pier, Venice
Central California
- Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo
- Port Hueneme, Venture
- Port San Luis (Harford) Pier, San Luis Obispo County
- San Simeon Pier, San Luis Obispo County
- Sea Cliff State Park Pier, Santa Cruz County
- Santa Cruz Wharf, Santa Cruz
- Still Water Cove Pier, Monterey County
- Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara
- Ventura Pier, Ventura
- Avila Pier, Avila
- Cayucos Pier, San Luis Obispo
- Goleta Pier, Goleta
Northern California
- Capitola, Monterey Bay
- Monterey, Monterey
- San Mateo Pier, San Mateo
- Pier 41, San Francisco
- Elephant Rock Pier, Tiburon
- Point Pinole Pier, Richmond
- Trinidad Pier, Humboldt County
- B Street Pier, Crescent City
- Alameda Mole, Alameda
- Berkeley Pier, Berkeley
- Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco
- Oakland Long Wharf, Oakland
- Pacifica Pier, Pacifica
- Pier 39, San Francisco
- Santa Cruz Wharf, Santa Cruz
External links
- What Is Your Swim Course In The Open Water?
- What Is Open Water Swimming?
- Acronyms In The Open Water Swimming World
- Peer-to-Peer Pressure From Pier-to-Pier
- Marathon Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- I Got Stung
- Survivors Fear No Pier Down The California Coast
- After 24 Hours, One Man Was Standing, Ray Meltvedt
