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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Monday, 21 June 2010

The longest day - part 2

Mon 21st June – 23:00

This is their position at about 23:00. The wind is forecast to be picking up a bit more, mainly from the south or south-west, so progress should continue to be good, but it is just a forecast! Based on this, Bill departed from Helsby during the evening to spend the night in Whitehaven, ready for an expected arrival on Tuesday morning.

The map also shows the cycle section (light-green) and the run section (blue) up to Scafell Pike. Boat No 3, EADS Innovation Works, has now taken a reasonable lead after the Scafell Pike section, passing Team Whistler (No 20). They appear to have some crack runners as their time up Snowden was very fast (under 3hour 40min – click on Race Leaderboard at the Three Peaks Yacht Race website) and I assume they have performed equally well here (no time to check the detail yet).


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