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British Steel Race 3
~~~~ BRITISH STEEL CHALLENGE ~~~~
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~~~~ PART 3 ~~~~
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Last month, I gave more information about what happened in the British Steel
Challenge. This month, I am going to give a bit more information and next
month I will get an interview with my Uncle who sailed on Interspray.
As I said last month (I think) Interspary came in second on the first leg
and nineth on the last two, overall he came in sixth but positions are not
stable at the moment as many boats are appealing for time knocked off due to
boat faults and loosing time helping other boats. The final results and
award ceremony will take place on the 26th September - 1 year to the day
after when they left on the race of a life time.
Before they left, there were endless complaints from professinals saying
that none would come back and they would all die, but they all returned
safely apart from one from person from Heath Insured who sadly seems to have
commited suicide rather than falling overboard.
These 120 people were the first people ever to do this although there was
one person before them who was the race organiser for this event. Chai
Blythe (pronounced Shay Bly) sailed around the world against the tides and
winds just over thirty years ago. He decided that he would like others to
have the experience so he organised this race which was to be a once in a
life time experience although he is now considering another simlar race due
to the amount of money made from it.
There were ten boats, each having a crew of twelve people. Each boat had a
sponsor who helped with Chai Blythes trip, for example, my Uncles boat -
Interspray was sponsored by International Paint as it was them that painted
Chai Blythes boat when HE went around the world.
Other boats taking part were:
Hofbrau Lager
Heath Insured
Pride Of Teeside
British Steel 2
Nuclear Electric
Coopers And Lybrand
Group 4
Commercial Union
Rhone Poulenc
Each boats crew could decide their own route to which they would sail but it
had certain boundaries ofcourse. Roughly, each yacht travelled just over
28,000 miles, all on sails and without the aid of motor although there were
a few exceptions such as British Steel 2 who had to motor all the way to
land because there mast had snapped and without a mast you have no sails and
that means no sailing. This slowed them down rather than speeding them up
though because the motors were very slow due to the fact that they were only
supposed to be for getting the boats two miles in and out of harbour and
were not meant for anything more really although there was enough fuel on
each boat in case of an even such as this.
Well, all are back now and are recovering form the bruises and now look
back on the photos of an event of a life time.
Only 121 people have done this in the whole world, and it will be quite a
while until somebody else does it.
Next month is the interview with my Uncle so order Issue 6 now!