2016 Coquet Yacht Club Castle and Islands Challenge. A real gem in the UK sailing calendar. It's a bit like a mini version of the Scottish Islands Peak Race ...

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the castle science challenge is an

annual event run by Coquette yacht club

or cyc and it is a bit special amity

artis with any type of sailboat and

amateur runners with any type of lakes

can take part see the club website

details

the club sits in extraordinarily

beautiful surroundings slightly upstream

of amber marina on the river Coquette

and the view from the bar is more than

worth the short walk from the marina or

town centre cyc offer a range of sailing

related challenges throughout the year

but the castles and islands event has to

be one of the most interesting on any

race calendar in the British Isles

ten miles and two castles after leaving

anak the runners finally got back to the

marina and joined up with their sailing

crews just before they arrived however

Sam talked to the skippers and crew as

they prepared their boats do you have a

planned finish turn well good luck I

should probably mention engines can be

used until the boat reach the outfall

boy at the harbour entrance

what's he planned route values model

going straight up to take these sounds

and then we do new and then if also tied

and the wind is against us then we do

what fishing bring it yeah we've got the

fishing rod no we're not gonna go we

will no we won't

yeah we're gonna do when do you think

you'll be back I reckon we'll be back

wife half free for Tuesday no I rang two

o'clock o'clock oh good luck guys

where we're on expressly forbidden under

a faculty group it said how they express

24 feet

it's very nicely advice episode we have

Mike

do you anticipate any problems and

what's what's going to be your route so

you first drop-off is going to be okay

well good luck guys

these guys are from the Chianti team

Chianti is a red fox 300 that came down

from beaten or Bay just for this event

it's a pity we didn't interview them

about the boat and the team but then

again there were lots of people who took

part or helped out but we didn't get a

chance to grill

maybe next year in case you're wondering

who was first out of Hamburg marina

it was cadet connection skipper Steve

Vogel arranged for the runners to meet

him at further kilometre along the

harbour wall apparently this is within

the rules

eight meters and we've rigged it up

today with the we're expecting two units

Whitaker very light weeds so it's going

to be quite a food although they made a

good start in these almost windless

conditions it's not long before Coquette

connection begins to fill the hot spicy

breath of gel Frazee breathing down

their neck and it strikes me now looking

at this that there really should be a

word to describe the irresistible urge

to look over your shoulder when there's

a boat coming up behind you in a race as

the light faded expressly forbidden made

a tactical decision to drop her runners

off at Newton Haven this was their

second run to castle number three Dunst

Umbra as the boat was practically be

calmed it made good sense to complete

the next room

mum was waiting on shore with hot coffee

and baking booties so this may also had

something to do with it I couldn't

resist putting in this shot of expressly

forbidden because it's such a small

sailboat sat there on the giant edge of

the North Sea

meanwhile caca connection jalfrezi

Sanderson and Chianti all made their way

to Holy Island at some point during the

race the boat's have to go through in a

sound and stable sound to make this

journey

I wish we could have been there to film

this part of the race the sheer beauty

of a summer sunset over Harley Island

has been known to turn the hardest

saltiest of skippers into a weeping mess

however by the time we got there it

would have been dark then we would have

been stranded until the causeway to the

island opened again at 5:00 a.m. so we

did what the sailing crews could not and

packed ourselves off to bed the unsung

heroes of the castles on Islands race

IRA course the marshals who sit up in

odd places on the northeast coast having

a drink or two waiting for these boats

and runners to arrive at some point

during the night all the boats must drop

off and pick up their runners at Holy

Island then head back south sailing

through whichever of the two sounds they

have not completed as per the rules of

the race

having filmed expressly forbidden as she

came into Newton Haven the day before

and then missed everyone up a hurry

Island we were really keen to be in see

houses when at least one vessel was

still there so it was something of

Nellie bonus to have to grown up just as

Sanderson arrived and doubt the

spinnaker while we were there

Coquet connection flows away about

Sanderson's set there runners for sure

but I'm getting ahead of myself

expressly forbidden dispatched a member

of their crew to row um expertly and

pick up the runners

however Sanderson's tied runners were

forced to paddle their own canoe wearily

to see houses Harbor whilst we heckled

them with crude stalks from the jetty

come on Phil put your back into it

oh hello hey tight

at this point expressly forbid these

runners were completing their last of

the four legs and just a few short miles

down the coast shelf phrases team were

completing their last run back at Newton

Haven by mid-morning we found ourselves

back at one of our favorite encourages

Newton Haven in the high season this

secluded beach is beset with hundreds of

land-based visitors so it's best visited

by boat jalfrezi collected their runners

and headed back to amble for the final

leg of the race

passing Coquette connection on their way

out Phuket connections runners Murph

beans super fast on land but their

inflatable secret weapons seem to have a

mind of its own now this is just a baby

relevance but coming as it did at the

end of a challenge I'm pretty sure they

won't have the easiest everyone must

have been feeling fatigued given it was

maybe 20 hours after the start of the

race and that they would have been

taking his toll the drama was far from

over as the wind picked up expressly

forbidden was just a few minutes behind

jalfrezi in a mad dash to the finish

line

why saying it that way today was

exciting