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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Saturday 19 June 2010

Team photograph

Saturday 19th June.


Unlike England football games, the Silver Surfers team has been known for ages, but it is good to have a new official photograph on the morning of the start. Here they are in Barmouth, concentration in their eyes, courage in their hearts, steel in their nerves and not a drop of alcohol in the blood.

The wind is picking up, exceeding 20 mph at times from the north during the afternoon, so likely to be an exhilarating first leg.

Good luck to them from us all.


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