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Photos of the 2000 Race
The Island Fresh team travels in style aboard the schooner New
Horizon skippered by Rudi Dahms, an entrant in the Classic Division. Seven men,
seven women and a dog formed the crew and found the race to be an ideal way to
travel and visit places not often available to the "normal" tourist. |
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Island Fresh running teams commence the Mt Freycinet run at Coles Bay. |
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Part of the Three Peaks "circus" about to board our aircraft
at Lady Barron, Flinders Island, after all teams have completed the Mt Strzelecki
run.
From left: Terry Travers, pilot Dave Roberts, Don Napier, Alastair Douglas,
Bob Ross and Jim Grace. |
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Camp Quality leaves Lady Barron for Coles Bay. Benny Parsons and
his crew ultimately won the coveted Tilman Trophy. |
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The sisterships, Southern Cross and Haphazard wait patiently at Coles
Bay for runners to return from Mt Freycinet. The impressive backdrop of the Hazards,
Mts Dove, Amos and Mayson stand sentinel over the popular fishing and holiday village. |
| Plenty of action in the Coles Bay Race Control as runners Martin
Hasket and Sandra Alexandra from the Victorian team, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, have
their kit checked. |
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Leading team, Southern Cross was dismasted soon after leaving Coles
Bay. Skipper Richard Edmunds and his crew was able to retrieve the mast and then
motored to Coles Bay. The race lead was handed to Richard's brother Nick Edmunds
sailing Haphazard. |
Photos of the 1999 Race
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KPMG Weathernews Larkspur team runners visited Tasmania early
March to run a couple of the mountains. Here Paul Blessington and Chris Wood are
seen at the new race finish site at the Hobart Ports Corp Elizabeth Street Pier
checking the Mt Wellington course map. In the background is a potential Classics
Division entrants for 2000, the brigantine Windeward Bound. |
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John Saul and his team are winners for 1999. Sailing ComputerLand to victory
in 1996, 1997 and 1999 to an unprecedented third win Saul has decided to rest on
his laurels for 2000 and spend Easter with his family. He still has plans to do
future races but possibly in a different yacht and try for the Tilman Trophy. |
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| For the first time the Three Peaks race included a special division for larger
vessels like the Royal Oak Rhona shown here on her way out of the Tamar
River to Bass Strait. Many of these vessels being in commercial survey and being
unrestricted by the rules for the number of crew allowed take paying passengers
to enjoy being part of the competition without having to do all the hard work.
It is another great way to visit Flinders Island, see some of Tasmania's spectacular
coast line in company with an exciting race. Bruce Potter's team put in a good
performance and the two young runners, Ruth Prenter and Olivia Norris won the hearts
of spectators with their grit and determination to finish. |
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Sailing one of the smaller yachts in the 1999 race Tony Guy Constructions skippered
by Tony Guy with the champion Scottish runners, Adrian Davis and Helene Diamantides
showed that size doesn't count by finishing in third place and with the runners
taking out the 'Kings of the Mountains' trophy for the second consecutive year.
A former Diamond class yacht (Yachting World Keelboat) extensively modified by
Guy, Tony Guy Constructions is very fast in light to medium breezes recording
speeds in the mid teens under fresh reaching conditions to match the performance
of much bigger craft. The crew have the added advantage of being able to row at
speeds of up to 4 knots. |
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| Still wearing scars from collisions with Antarctic ice, the Queensland based
catamaran Hogs Breath Ice Cat sails into the unusual calms of Bass Strait.
Gaining a second place on arrival in Lady Barron after battling extremely light
airs laid the solid foundation for a good final result. As the winds freshened
on the second and third days of the race their performance allowed them to score
a final second place, the same position as in 1996, the year of their last visit. |
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Photos of the 1998 Race
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The Brigitta Bits 4 Boats team won the prestigious Tilman Trophy.
Here the team sets off on the final mountain, Mt Wellington, and has chosen to
run all five members to accumulate more Tilman points. From the left is Rodney
Lockhart, Bruce Longmore, Peter Crawford (Skipper), Ron Brooker and Sean Blake. |
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| The 1998 winning team, Business Post Naiad. Team skipper Bruce
Guy
is held aloft by Steve Walker, Adrian Davis, Mark Guy and Helene Diamantides.
Tragically, Bruce Guy was one of six persons who lost their lives
competing in the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race. |
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Underwater Video Systems runners Richard Ecclestone and Peter
Hoskinson prepare to disembark at Flinders Island to set out on their 65 km run. |
| Team Tartan runners, Anthony Coote and Lloyd Febey
commence the ascent of Mt Strzelecki at Flinders Island. |
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A cold dawn reveals Mt Wellington has a dusting of snow and ice. The road is
closed to vehicular traffic because of ice but Three Peaks runner Melanie from
the Trust Bank team is ready for the challenge of the steep tracks
through the bush and rocky scree slopes to the summit and return as she packs her
kit for this last run. Mist and snow on the summit of Mt Wellington can be seen
in the background. |
| ComputerLand led the fleet until the gale force
winds forced her retirement with a damaged the keel as she neared Tasman Island.
John Saul and his ComputerLand team were thwarted in their attempt to be the first
team to win the race for a third consecutive year. |
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Island Paint Pro was a casualty of the gale force winds encountered
in the latter stages of the race. Soon after leaving Coles Bay on the last sailing
leg to Hobart she damaged the top section of her rig while punching through steep
seas caused by the 40 knot south-westerly wind. The team retired to Coles Bay. |
| The Cruising Division entrant Tartan skippered by
Mark Ballard from Hobart enjoyed the motoring allowance in both the calm conditions
for the first part of the race and in the subsequent gale force conditions. They
are seen here leading the fleet at Lady Barron, Flinders Island. The Cruising Division
entrants are allocated a distance for motoring which allows them to keep up with
the fleet. The concept is to keep slower yachts in the middle of the fleet so they
enjoy the action with the Main Division competitors. |
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The second multihull in the race Owens Cooltainer Jalen also
suffered in performance in the light winds in the first leg but made up for that
with the fastest sailing time on the leg to Coles Bay arriving well up in the fleet. |
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| The Sweetnam brothers, Neville and David, running for team Nortas Nyanda along
the road leading to the base of Mt Strzelecki. |
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Light airs and a strong tide had everyone guessing whether Business Post and Batman
Fawkner Haphazard would clear the finish mark at Lady Barron. |
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| Flinders Island might have a small population of about 800 but they always turn
out in force to support the race. Here the Lady Barron wharf fills with the anticipation
of the arrival of yachts. |
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Photos of the 1997 Race
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The Island Airlines team on Steve Brinkhoff's yacht Nyanda looks
superb as she beats to windward on the Tamar River soon after the race start. |
| Island Airlines lost its rudder about 10 miles further
on in Bass Strait while running heavy seas and 40 knot winds. The crew managed
to return to the Tamar, fabricate a temporary rudder and catch the fleet at Coles
Bay where they unofficially resumed the race. The runners went ashore to run Mt
Freycinet before sailing on to Hobart and running Mt Wellington. Although officially
retired from the race the Island Airlines team (Nyanda) showed
the spirit of Tilman by ingenuity in quick repairs and then with their participation
with the other teams in the remainder of the event. |
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| Underwater Video Systems (Anduril) is a regularly
competing team in the Three Peaks Race. Skipper Jeff Cordell has competed in all
nine races to date both as a runner and a sailor. He said the only way he could
avoid running was to buy a yacht and be the skipper. |
| The long gravel roads around Mt Strzelecki never seem to end as runners
Keith Lancaster in the foreground and Lloyd Febey from Wild Apple appear
out of the dark. As Three Peaks runners could be scaling mountains in extreme conditions
they carry packs with extra clothing, emergency rations and safety equipment. |
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| Chris French and Gerry Oldfield prepare to leave the Coles Bay Race
Control to run the 33 kms over Mt Freycinet and return. Chris French was affected
by sea sickness on the sail to Flinders Island, so Gerry Oldfield had to restart
the run at Lady Barron running a total of 105 kms. The team ComputerLand (Vendetta)
led by John Saul slipped to 10th place on leaving Lady Barron but sailed wide to
sea down the east coast to arrive at Coles Bay in first place which they held to
finish. For the first time a team had won the Australian Three Peaks for a second
time having won the race in 1996. |
| The trimaran Island Paint Pro (Twisted Sister) broke
her sailing record to Flinders Island reducing the time by 2 hours nine minutes
to eight hours nine minutes. Here she is leaving Coles Bay on the third sailing
leg beating into a fresh southerly. |
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| Marshals at Hobart Race Control check the runner's kits from Underwater
Video Systems, Chris Sherwood from the United States and Peter Hoskinson
are repacking their packs during the compulsory 5 minutes time out. |
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