2013 Tasmanian Three Peaks Race

This year is the 25th edition of the race. A combined sailing/running up mountains race modelled along the same concept as the UK race. My personal favourite is the 46' Chris White catamaran of MYCV commodore Charles Meredith lots of recent mods underwater with the removal of the minikeels and new sail wardrobe. The new competitor in the multihulls is New Howrah Pharmacy this is the repaired and modified Grainger racing catamaran formerly known as "Cynophobe". A rundown of the boats competing can be found on their page here

http://www.threepeaks.org.au/index2.html

 

Peccadillo's runner's have completed their mountain run of Mount Strezlecki and have departed Cape Lady Barron Island on the next sailing leg ahead of the rest of the fleet.

http://www.threepeaks.org.au//tracker/yachttracker.html

 

Peccadillo set a new record for the Beauty Point to Lady Barron leg of the race.

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Three-Peaks-Race---Catamaran-slashes-first-leg-record/107922

 

Which unluckily for them appears to have over stressed some parts of the boat, and now they have pulled out of the race and are motoring southward.

 

It's a tough break for them particularly since they had such a good race to this point, sounds from the reports like they had a failure in the steering system. Conditions have not been too bad this race really compared to the pounding that was dished out to the fleet last year.

 

Euphoria Furniture a Chamberlain design catamaran skippered by Steven Arms is currently leading the race and the multihull division in Three Peaks Race with the monohull Advantedge not far astern.

 

The Chamberlain designed Euphoria Furniture catamaran team were first to dock just 30 minutes ahead of the next boat the monohull Advantedge. The runners are now on the mountain.

 

an update from the Three Peaks Race facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/AustralianThreePeaksRace

Some race times up Mount Wellington for you…
Euphoria Furniture arrived at Constitution Dock, Hobart, at 12.48am. The team finished its run at 3.57am, clocking a time of 3 hours, 4 minutes and 37 seconds.

Advant Edge runners John Claridge and Robert Brumming were not far behind touching dry land at 1.21am. The team finished the run at 5.10am with a time of 3h49m44s.

Haphazard was the next team out of the blocks, arriving at 2.39am, finishing at 7.30am with a time of 4h45m55s.

The fourth team to finish the race Cable Plus Tas – MS Tas arrived at 2.52am and arrived back at the dock with a time of 2h51m08s.
We are still waiting for two crews to dock in Hobart – Magic Miles and Tilt.
All the other teams are on the Mount Wellington Run.

 

A video from the 2012 edition of the Three Peaks Race I'd not seen before.

http://youtu.be/Arux59U28eo

 

Wow, that's no picnic sail!

Rugged !