Castles and Islands winners announced
This year’s Castles and Island race winners have been announced.
The annual event run by Coquet Yacht Club sees teams of runners and sailors set off at sunset to navigate by land and sea, visiting five castles and Coquet Island, Holy Island and the Farnes within 24 hours. This year’s Challenge Cup winners were Fagins Express.
The crew of Fagins Express who won the Challenge Cup and were the fastest sailors
CHALLENGE CUP⛵️🏃🏼
Over all combined running and corrected sailing time
1st – Team Fagins Express
2nd – Team Monkey Business
3rd – Team Sanda Sund
FASTEST SAILORS⛵️
1st – Fagins Express
2nd – Monkey Business
3rd – Starlight Express
FASTEST RUNNERS🏃🏽
1st – Phil & Kurt – Sanda Sund
2nd – Danny & Paul – Fagins Express
3rd – Keira, Nick, Rowan, Niall & Paddy – Thialfi II
ALL ROUNDER WINNER
Team Starlight Express 🏃🏽🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼
BEST FEMALE RUNNER 🏃🏼♀️
Karen Stewart – Starlight Express
MULTIHULL CLASS WINNER
Thialfi II
SPIRIT OF CASTLES AND ISLANDS AWARD
Eddie Redshaw – Star
🌟 SPECIAL AWARD🌟
Paul Unger – Sanda Sund
For saving the day, no matter the consequence to his team. Always a true Gent!
The event was sponsored by Alnwick Brewery Co & Taproom
More information on their Facebook Page
