This year’s Three Peaks Yacht Race showed, once again, why it has endured since 1977 as one of the world’s great adventure races. The 44th race was won on handicap by a skipper and boat combination which first won in 1999, while the Challenge event was successfully completed by two school teams for the first time, with 16 and 17 year old pupils taking part. The 44th race was one for the record books. The first race boat to arrive in Corpach was the J/111 of team Roaring Forties who at one point after leaving Whitehaven had a 35-mile lead. Most of that was lost at the Mull of Kintyre, where precious hours were spent circling in the tidal eddies. The Three Peaks Yacht Race is always an emotional rollercoaster, the highs and lows often coinciding with the nine tidal gates on the course. Roaring Forties took line honours and the Daily Telegraph Cup, but knew the race win had slipped from their grasp. Skipper Cris Miles commented, “This was a race where we really had to grind it out.” Full results and tracking at threepeaksyachtrace.co.uk.