The Race and the Team

The Three Peaks Yacht Race involves sailing 389 nautical miles, running 59 miles and cycling 30 miles in a week – sailing from Barmouth on Saturday 19th June, via Caernafon to climb Snowdon; Whitehaven to climb Scafell Pike and finally to Fort William to climb Ben Nevis.

Helsby Running Club members Phil Gillard, Jackie Keasley and boat owner and captain Trevor Murphy will do all the running and cycling and also act as deck hands. Businessmen John Bailey and Richard Stone will sail the team’s yacht, Josephine –a Beneteau Oceanis 40 and one of the largest of the 23 boats in the race – through some of the trickiest waters of the Welsh, English and Scottish west coasts, navigating sandbanks, tidal streams, rocks and whirlpools.

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Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Arriving in Whitehaven

Tue 22nd June – 08:00

Apparently it was spuds and hotpot for tea last night – must of worked well as they have made good progress up to Whitehaven with a group of 6 other boats and two a bit further behind. Tracking pictures below show the situation at around 02:45, when they were east of the IOM, and then just as they were arriving at Whitehaven marina at 8 o’clock this morning. They hope to do the cycle/run leg in under 10 hours (the Leaderboard is being updated at present, so I can’t check any other times, but the fastest I saw last night was about 7hours 10 mins.) and so should be back in Whitehaven around 18:00. I hope to get some update from the non-runners when they have had their breakfast in Whitehaven.




















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