Lake Erie — Canada · United States

Lake Erie – Dunkirk (NY) to Port Maitland area (ON)

46.2 km
Distance
Dunkirk, New York ↔ Port Maitland area, Ontario
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

Crossings marked «documented» are historical: reconstructed from chronicles, newspapers, archives and race results, with no governing body to ratify them. In the rankings they stand with the ratified ones.

Traditional knitted textile swimsuit, cap and goggles: no wetsuit and no tech suit; no contact with the boat and no drafting behind it.

Podium · Skin · Solo · One-way

  1. 1
    18:23 · Jul 1998 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  2. 1
    18:23 · Jul 18, 1998 · 1 in Skin · Solo
  3. 3
    Bob Weir🇨🇦
    23:41 · Aug 26, 1992 · 3 in Skin · Solo

3 of 3

Pos.↑SwimmerDateTime
1Paula StephansonJul 199818:23documented
1Paula StephansonJul 18, 199818:23
3Bob WeirAug 26, 199223:41

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Solo Swims of Ontario. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.