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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Thursday, 24 June 2010

More words from John

Thu 24th June – 14:00

The final stretch, great reach up the north channel followed by dead calm off the Mull of Kintyre for 6 hours, wind picked up meant that we could use the Sound of Islay (10 knots both wind and current) with perfect timing, in company with Prairie Oyster and Siggi Mae. Now another great run towards Lismore still racing Prairie Oyster. Siggi Mae reaches way faster than we do and is way off in the distance now.

Trevor has re-taped his glasses and if he looks to the right he always sees blue sky

Now the challenge of Lismore and Corran narrows before our runners complete our race with Ben Nevis

Positions below are from about the same time. You can see their tracks going between Islay and Jura.


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