Since before the turn of the twentieth century, ocean swimmers have had aspirations of "Swimming the Light." The route chosen by these early adventurers, and dreamers, went from the bridges in Charlestown to the Boston Light, on Little Brewster Island, in the outer Boston Harbor, a distance of twelve miles. In 1907, a Boston Light Swim Race was inaugurated. Of the twenty-seven swimmers who dove in at the Warren Bridge in Charlestown that year, not one succeeded in touching the shore of Little Brewster Island. The very first known, and documented, swimmer to succeed in reaching Boston Light...
Since before the turn of the twentieth century, ocean swimmers have had aspirations of "Swimming the Light." The route chosen by these early adventure...
