A week later

Mon 5th June

We have had a week to recover from our amazing, not to be missed, sailing and running experience. Trevor and Josie are now fighting the elements bringing the boat home from Fort William, having taken the train back up to Fort William on Saturday. They were storm bound in Corpach yesterday sheltering from 70 mph gales. Jackie has done a mountain marathon this weekend in the Lakes and is now totally exhausted! John has spent the last week Munro bagging and has gone from sailing exhausted to walking exhausted.

A very big thank you to everyone involved and everyone who sponsored us.

Richard Stradling, our home based support, who supplied us with daily wind conditions and put together a brilliant blog.

Our land based back-up crew Bill, Josie, Helen and Christine who drove many miles around the country, catching up and patiently waiting for us in port at all times of the day and night.

Andy & Rachel who slept out on Snowdon on the Sunday evening when we did not turn up - quote from Rachel "it was worth it for the sunrise".

Josie for trailing us in the car on the very hot road runs to and from Snowdon, supplying gallons of water and Andy's delicious homemade flapjacks.

Christine at Ennerdale hostel, Pauline & Alan at Black Sail Youth hostel and Gail & John at Wasdale Head, who gave us food, water and inspiration to keep running and cycling on the Scafell Pike day.

Ed & Kath for turning up at Whitehaven to wave us off.

Richard & Bev who had an enjoyable stay at Wasdale Head but were too early to support us due to circumstances beyond our control!

Christine, Bill and Helen for supplying us with more food and water at the Ben Nevis Inn, at the start and end of the climb.

"Josephine", Trevor & Josie without which it would not have been possible!

Twelve50 bikes of Frodsham for giving us advice on our bikes and servicing them before the race.

AMEC for fund matching the SOS children donations.

Meryonydd Yacht club for organising the whole event; it was amazing seeing familiar faces from Barmouth crop up at places all over the British Isles.

Everyone who offered us support and advice.

So far we have raised £4,000 for our chosen charities:
St Anns Hospice, Heald Green
Hospice of the Good Shepherd, Chester
SOS Children
Round Table Children’s Wish

A very big thank you to all who have contributed so kindly to these worthwhile causes.

Over and out

Trevor, Phil, Jackie, John & Richard.


Pictures below show Phil and Jackie crossing the finish line. The whole team with their medals. Saying thanks to their sponsors and charities – twelve50 bikes, SOS children and Round Table Children’s Wish.

A full set of pictures are available on picasa.

Results summary

Mon 28th June

Here is a summary of the results for the Silver Surfers, compared to the max, mean and min times of all the other boats competing. Times are given for the Sailing passage and the Run section individually, plus the combined time for the whole Leg.

























There appear to be a few errors in the times given, but not for the Silver Surfers (although it would affect the mean and minimum vales).
Fantom, sailing passage #2 time should be 40:54:00 and not 20:45:52
GFT Adventure Aggregate sail time should be 87:13:00 and not 20:45:52
Ben Folds Five Aggregate sail time should be 113:44:00 and not 20:45:52

Results available

Sun 27th June

Results are now available for all the Legs on the website at http://www.threepeaksyachtrace.co.uk/teams/results/ (although a few obvious mistakes in some of the numbers - they look reasonable for the Silver Surfers).

Finishing words

Fri 25th June - 16:00

Finishing - achieving our goal. We finally drifted into Fort William at 9 30 this morning and despatched our runners to Ben Nevis. The support crew were there as a whole, good to see them. We also got a finishing horn. The big news is that we won the last inn trophy, our tactical nous proved second to none.

Would we do it again? It definitely has a 'bug' about it. Let's see if the motivation is still there in a few months time.

Trevor feels we need to improve our rowing technique.
Richard great week, great people, great adventure, too many pies.
Phil says a busy day is a happy day (I think he's had too much sun).
Jackie, life on the ocean wave, amazing experience, good fun, exhausting, wouldn’t have missed it.
John fantastic experience so much to learn and a very addictive activity.

Now for the first beer in a week.

Over and out.

Finished!

Fri 25th June - 14:00

Jackie and Phil (with medals) after completing the run up and down the Ben (background - without clouds now).

Congratulations to Jackie, John, Phil, Richard and Trevor!

A word of thanks should also go out to the support crew - Bill, Josie, Helen and Christine plus numerous others during the week (I will add the full list when I get home and find the sheet).

PS. Got the list now: The following helped or tried to help, apologies if I have forgotten anybody. Gail and John, Alan and Pauline, Rachel, Andy, Richard and Bev, Ed and Kath.

Josephine in Corpach

Fri 25th June - 11:00

Spoke to Bill - sitting having a drink waiting for Jackie and Phil to return from the Ben - and apparently they landed at about 09:30.

This picture sent by John of Josephine sitting in Corpach, with a few clouds showing in the background. She is sitting next to No 6 (team Kishinoor) and No 19 (Team Torbellino).

Arrived - but not quite sure when

Fri 25th June - 10:08

Just got back to my computer to see that they have arrived! Not had time to call anyone to find the exact time of arrival, but here is the proof. Assume that Phil and Jackie are on their way up the Ben now.