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

Oh Mull of Kintyre

Wed 23rd June – 24:00

Here are the positions, at about midnight, of the boats that left Whitehaven on Wednesday evening.

Of the boats in the leading pack, all but one have reached Fort William, and some of the teams will have completed the run by now. Apparently it is party time tomorrow evening (Thursday) – which is about the time Josephine could arrive in Fort William.

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