Back in the mists of time when George Whenham had Ken Brown driving for him and a young Chris Plummer as a helper, they had gone down south to compete in a Dartford Heath event, and came upon a seemingly uncrossable River Medway. Above Aylesford it is not tidal (as above) as there is a weir near the town bridge. Thus this section of the river is quite deep. The transmitter was on the south bank, dressed as a fisherman, under his fishing brolly, with a wire along his rod down into the water as his aerial. From the bank side he looked quite genuine as a fisherman, but from across the 40’ of water we could see he was a fraud, and he was laughing at us as the nearest bridge was a mile away downstream. Some early competitors had got a young lad in his rowing boat to ferry them across and back, for a small sum, but that was stopped by his Dad when he came up from below in his cabin cruiser moored nearby. At that time George was not a confident swimmer, whereas Ken could swim like a fish. This was unfortunate really as you had to present yourself at the transmitter with a demonstrably working DF set and of course the paper sign in form. Well Ken could swim like a fish, but like a fish this only worked underwater, so the DF set and form got soaked, and this was only the first transmitter site they visited. So it was back to the car, and whilst Ken dried out and drove, George tried draining the water from the set, and Chris spread the form on a book and tried to dry that out as well. The second transmitter crew were not sympathetic to George’s excuses as they couldn’t get their pen to write on the still damp form....