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The Australian Three Peaks Race® is conducted by the Port Dalrymple Yacht Club.
Collector's
Edition, The First 20 Years
The Australian Three
Peaks Race has a valuable collection of facts and photos in the 102
page publication The First 20 Years. Order your copy now
for just $20 plus postage and handling. Provided with an insert with latest teams and results of subsequent years.
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The Countdown
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to race start on Good Friday 22 April 2011. |
Advice for runners
Listen to the round the world sailor Tony Mowbray give his comments on the 2004 race to David Iliffe on ABC Radio. [414 KB MP3 file for Real Player.]
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The British Three Peaks Race is held in June each year.
Podium finish for Whistler
Not being quite able to make up suffiicient time on the last sailing leg Team Whistler still gained a very creditable third place in the British Three Peaks Race. The first four yachts arrived at Fort William within half an hour and the final results were achieved on the mountain run to the summit of Ben Nevis. Congratulations go the David Rees and his team for such a great result over a difficult and tough course especially considering it was the first attempt by the team to compete on this course.
Whistler reaches Fort William
Calms, rowing and fresh breezes on this last day of sailing have given Team Whistler plenty to do and especially being in close company with other teams. While the sailors are enjoying a beer, runners Jacqui Guy and Michael McIntyre set off for snow and mist covered Ben Nevis just five minutes behind the first team EADS Innovation Works. EADS team has known fast runners that will pose some difficulties for the Whistler runners to make up any ground. Third team to arrive at Fort William was Topsham Sea Fever followed by The Dockers. Nine more teams should arrive later in the day Scotland time then there is quite a gap to the last group of teams in the race. Wed 23 June 2010 at 2330 hrs Eastern Australian time.
Look at www.threepeaksyachtrace.co.uk/
Timing is all important
Locks and tidal gates are features that the UK race competitors have to manage to save valuable hours. Team Whistler along with many other teams had firstly to wait to enter Whitehaven Harbour and then when the runners returned wait for four hours for the tide to allow the gate to be opened and then to have enough water over the barway to head to sea. Slipping from first place to seventh the team has since made up ground to a close third position and to be only about 10 miles behind the leader, EADS Innovation Works. Runners Jacqui Guy and Michael McIntyre lost time on the outward cycling leg by taking a wrong turn but this appears not to have made much difference to their current placing.
With less than 100 miles sailing to reach Fort William, Team Whistler has sailed past some spectacular scenery to reach the Sound of Jura heading for the final run, a short but steep 17 miles to the summit of Ben Nevis and return. 22 June 2010 at 2015 hrs Eastern Australian time.
Team Whistler takes early lead
With a small 8 mile lead, Team Whistler has cleared the Menai Straits and is heading towards Whitehaven, the
second stopover where the runners will have a 20 kilometre cycling leg before commencing the climb up Scafell
Pike, the highest mountain in England. Current wind conditions are light northerlies up to 10 knots. The UK Three
Peaks Race website appears not to be currently available. Noted at 2100 hrs Australian EST (1100 hrs local time
in UK) 20 June 2010.
Team Whistler was the first team to reach Carnaerfon in the Menai Straits for the first run, the climb of Mt Snowdon. When their position was checked they had a small distance margin over the second team but as tidal currents can make a huge difference in these waters their margin might translate into a much greater margin if timings are right. However they still have yet to navigate the remainder of the tricky waters of the Menai Straits. Check the UK website at www.threepeaksyachtrace.co.uk/ for race progress. 19 June 2010.
Australian team to challenge in the UK
Team
Whistler has left for England in mid June for their forthcoming challenge in the British Three Peaks Race later
in the month. Their challenge includes a yacht delivery from southern England past Lands End through the Irish
Sea to the start in the village of Barmouth in Wales, the birthplace of the original concept of the Three Peaks
Race.
Runners Jacqui Guy and Michael McIntyre seen at left on the Mt Strzelecki descent and sailors Jory Linscott, Tim Jones and skipper David Rees will be the fourth Australian (Tasmanian) team but the first with the same team members to compete in Australia and the UK. We wish the team success in their adventure. View ABC Television footage.
Team Whistler leaves Lady Barron towards the Pot Boil and the east coast with Coles Bay the next port.
Team Whistler first team to the finish. Monday, 5 April 2010
David Rees, Jory Linscott, Tim Jones, Jacqui Guy and Michael McIntyre capture the limelight after all five members complete the final run to Mt Wellington to win the Main Monohull Division and be the first of all teams to be at the finish line at Hobart's famous Constitution Dock. With the whole Whistler team running Mt Wellington to maximise points for the sought after Tilman Trophy they narrowly missed out to the victorious Victorian team competing in the Cruising Division, Community Carbon led by Jeff Dusting from the Sandringham Yacht Club.
Nick Edmunds wishes David Rees and Team Whistler well. With
them are
Tim Jones, Jacqui Guy,
Jory Linscott and Michael McIntyre.
Twenty two times competitor and two times overall winner Nick Edmunds in yacht Haphazard and the leader of one of the previous three Tasmanian teams to have competed in the British Three Peaks Race wishes David Rees well for the race at Easter and also gives him some tips for Whistler's attempt at the UK Race in June.
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The Race
Australia's premier short-handed sailing endurance mountain running race is held every Easter in Tasmania.
First conducted in 1989, the Australian Three Peaks Race is a major event on the Tasmanian sporting calendar attracting large crowds at various locations and extensive media following each Easter. The next annual race will start on Good Friday, 22nd April 2011.
The People
Each year competitors are drawn from most Australian states and often there are international competitors, though mostly runners.
For competitors it offers an interesting alternative for the yachting fraternity and a challenging new activity for runners, climbers and bushwalkers.
It is this unique combination of the two disparate disciplines of sailing and running that provides for such a challenging event.
The Teams
The race allows for four divisions; Main Racing Monohull and Main Racing Multihull, Fully Crewed and Cruising.The Main Divisions have the original concept of five persons in a team. The Fully Crewed Division is the growth area ideal for those racing for the first time and those not confident with 3 sailors and 2 runners. More ...
The Course
The Australian Three Peaks Race is a non-stop event, commencing at Beauty Point on the Tamar River just north of Launceston and finishing in Hobart on the Derwent River. More ...
The Volunteers
The race is organised entirely by a dedicated and competent team of volunteers who are situated at many places along the race route. Here volunteers, spectators and runners have the chance for refreshments at Mt Strzelecki base station. if you would like to be part of the volunteer team.
Our Sponsor Partners
Our sponsors are more to the race than the title implies. Each year some of our sponsors travel to various race points to watch the competition and "to be involved". The sponsorship partnership we enjoy provides many joint benefits often not experienced in other sponsored activities.
The Race
The Australian Three Peaks Race is a non-stop event, commencing at Beauty Point just north of Launceston on the Tamar River and finishing in Hobart on the Derwent River. En route, the running members of each team have to scale Mt Strzelecki, Mt Freycinet and Mt Wellington.
The east-coast course around Tasmania affords the best combinations of suitable mountains, coastal centres, accessibility for followers, press crews and the public. It brings publicity and exposure to two of the more beautiful but remote areas of the State, Flinders Island and the Freycinet Peninsula, and takes competitors, supporting groups and the media the length of the beautiful east coast.
For competitors it offers an interesting alternative for the yachting fraternity and a challenging new activity for runners, climbers and bushwalkers. It is this unique combination of the two disparate disciplines which provides for such a challenging event.
