To say that the race is question inevitably arises as to resilient, motor ...

With the number of starters
diminishing in arithmetic
progression as stage followed
stage, London to Monte Carlo
looked a very long way. Despite
earnest press reports on heavy
seas, conditions for the first
few legs were placid by the
standards that both Biscay and
the English Channel can
produce. But, in a boat that can
do 60 to 70 knots plus, even a
popple can be shattering, as
several of the 22 ori{rrral
starters soon discovered.
To say that the race is
ambitious is to put it mildly. A
passage of this length is a maior
undertaking for any craft. The
question inevitably arises as to
whether such a course isn't
mofe suited to slower, more
resilient, motor crruisers,
prepared for staying at sea for
longer stages, and equipped to
take the full brunt of the
Atlantic.
llrhat went on in the opening
legs points to the relative
vulnerability of the high speed
dasher, however powerful it
may be and however tough its
crew. By Bilbao, nins entries
had fallen out, leaving 13 to
continue towards Gib and,
hopefully, the Gulf of Lions,
another region of windy ferocity.
Here in an interim report, Ray
Bulman looks over the first four
legs of the course, between
London and Bilbao. R"y,
covering the event by helicopter,
will deliver a further report,
and a race round up, in our
issue of July 7.

105
Pictures by Eric Coltham
FOLLOWING the big build-up and pre-race publicity surrounding
the London/Monte-Carlo marathon
-
and the disappointingly
small field of 22 starters
-
it is now almost
certain that what looked like becoming a non-event might
become a race of some stature.
Only 13 craft completed the fourth stage to Bilbao. in
Spain, and two of these were so-called second class entries
because their drivers had trailed their boats by road after
mechanical trouble on previous stages.
When the 22 entries were sent on their way in Barking
Reach by HRH Princess Margaret on Saturday, June 1O'
not only did several thousand Londoners turn out to wave
participants all the way to the start line, but countless runabout
owners made it an excuse to shoot up and down the
river in escort.
What may have seemed an impressive sight in the comparative
safety of the river, was soon sorted out when the
leaders reached the open sea. Five dropped out on that first
stage alone, some through carelessness.
Without question the fastest craft must have been Tim
Powell's 32ft. Canadian Moppie' But although he led the
field along the south coast, this veteran driver ran aground
off Selsey Bill and almost swept the bottom of his craft
clean of shafts, propellers, and rudder. Therefore, within
the first 2OO miles one of the hot favourites was forced to
retire.
1st stage: London
- Cowes
Just after 1Oam. Princess Margaret dropped the flag on
what was to be the start of the longest ever offshore powerboat
race. At 2700 miles, it surpassed the 1969 Round-
Britain by over 1000 miles.
The early lead was taken byTim Powell's Bertram followed
13 minutes later by Richard Lawson's quadruple Mercury
outboard powered Jaffa Orange Juice. Designed by Ray
Hunt and built by Souter of Cowes, this boat had been built
especially for this event, as was Pascoe Watson'sAvenger
Ioo which won the Daily TelegraphlBP Round-Britain.
Perhaps the most disappointed competitors were Timo
Makinen and Pascoe Watson, whose Dutch built Ford
Cammenga was late in delivery, forcing Pascoe to purchase
Ronnie Hoare's Shead-designed aluminium Unohoo atthe
last minute. Unfortunately, last minute preparations of this
craft slowed her on this leg.
Re-engined with Ford diesels. Ralph Hilton's HfS -
now driven by Mike Bellamy
a strong contender on
this stage and on the forced retirement of Canadian Moppie,
took over second place behindJaffa Orange Juice.
Rough weather after Folkestone slowed many competitors.
One of the hot favourites in the Ford team. Edward
G reenall's. Gee was a late starter with mechanical trouble but
her ability to maintain a high speed in head seas pushed her
up to fourth by Cowes.
The only lady team in the race
-
Lady Aitken and the
Countess of Arran
-
driving the Senior Marine hull, Ford
Express, stove in the boat's bow off Selsey Bill and only just
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MOTOR BOAT AND YACHTING
montecarlo
orbust
continucd
managed to reach a slipway in Cowes by
maintaining a planing attitude.
Re.uhs: (on olapsed time)
1. Jaffa Orange Juice (R. Lawson) 2. HIS (Mike
Bellamv) 3. Who Dares (Viscount Slim)
Stage 2: Cowes- Brest
Out of the 14 stages this was considered
the most severe, Two hundred and seventeen
miles of open sea lay between the
Solent and the landfall of Ushant.
Fortunately, reasonablycalm seashelped
to save the day here but it was the diesel
boat, HT S, whose crew chose to chance the
inshore channel off Brittany. Nevertheless,
Miss Sweden fell by the wayside near
Alderney with split fuel tanks. while Any'
thing Goes, the new racer of husband and
wife team Richard and Sue Griffith, picked
up a fishing net around her propellers.
Monte Surters Flying Tyre, driven by
Round-Britain veteran John Caulcutt had
fuel starvation and did not arrive in Brest
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until almost 18 hours after setting off.
Although quickly repaired at Cowes. the
female-crewe d Ford Express again suffered
from fatigue leaving only 13 starters
for the third stage to La Rochelle.
Results: (on elapsed time)
1. Jaffa Orange Juice (R. Lawson) 2. HfS (Mike
Bellamy) 3. Who Dares (Viscount Slim)
Stage 3: Brest-La Rochelle
One craft that looked a virtual outsider on
her moorings at Putney prior to the start
was the Monaco entered Zoom. fhis isa
five-year-old, low deadrise Riva hull
powered by twin 7-litre petrol inboards.
However, although its drivers suffered
badly from the English temperatures in the
early stages, acquisition of wet suits soon
overcame this handicap and they started
to move up the field to the surprise of their
rivals.
Jaffa Orange Juice damaged the lower
unit on one of her four outboards andfell
back as Timo Makinen and Pascoe Watson
began pushing up amongst the leaders.
Keith Schellenberg's Conserve or Perish,
which had missed the London-Cowes leg
by being dropped from a crane. was another
to make a challenge here. But once again
the long swells of North Biscayfavoured the
diesel powered HTS and she crossed the
line 21 minutes ahead of Ford Persuader
to take the overall lead on elapsed time.
Right, Dr Oskar
Trost's 30ft. Fino
lines up with a sloop
and the Needles
Lighthouse. Below,
ttto of the likely lads:
Mike Bellamy, driver
of the diesel powered
HTS, and Richard
Iawson and his Jaffa
Orange Juice, which
was specially built for
this event. These two
sharcd the honours
over the ftst fout
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1 HLS (Mike Bellamy) 2 Jaffa Orange Juice \R.
Lawson) S Who Dares (Viscount Slim)
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The 1 3 remaining competitors
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with the
exception of John Caulcutt's Monte
Surfers Flying Tyre, which was still suffering
from fuel starvation and necessitating
road transport
-
set off for Bilbao in hot
weather on Tuesday morning. Barry
Bridgeland's enlry Kara Kara and East
Kent Marine's 36ft. diesel poweredTiger
Shark lived up to her name by running into
a six foot shark, which became entangled
round her rudder costing precious time in
the overall placings.
Double Century, a 31ft. Fairey Huntsman
driven by ocean sailing racer, David
Palengat, in his first big powerboat race,
continued to maintain a steady position.
if only at the tail end of the field. But bad
visibility on this leg began to affect the
overall oositions.
HIS was onlv one of several that lost
her way. The German entered WD-40
driven by Oscar Trost went completely
wrong and was last to arrive at Bilbao.
Jaffa Orange Juice hit the town on the
nose as did the Monaco entry, Zoom,
which at this stage was beginning to be
considered a serious threat to the overall
leader.
Results: (on elapsed time)
1 HfS (Mike Bellamy) 2 Jaffa Orange Juice \R.
Lawson) 3 Zoom (G. Rossi)
Top, Barry Bridgelants Kara K*a going
well before it tangled with a shark between La
Rochelle and Bilbao. Cente, one of the Ford
team, the 45ft, Gee passes the Fairey Huntsman
of Paer Hicks. Below, the Monaco entercd
Zoom hurries on after a slow start, fiaally
fuishfu third on the leg to Bilbao
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montearlo
bust
On the way to win;:ing the big one: the diesel
powered I{IS, owned by Ralph Hilton, thanders
away from the start of the 9th legfrom Cascais,
Portugal
Well, they made it, or at least
some of them did, with some
very fine perforrnances from
craft like HTS
-
which won
-
and hom, a four-year-old Riva
runabout, so small some people
thought would go to the bottom
before Dover, and which
finished a remarkable second.
Ray Bulman, who covered most
of the 2700-mile marathon
by helicopter, gives a
blow-by-blow account of the last
10 stages, of the 10 craft which
made it and the ones which bust
THE London to Monte-Carlo, the powerboating
marathon considered by many to be a
foolhardy, impossible ambition when it was
first announced in the autumn of 197O, is
over. Over 27OO miles in length, across some
of the most notoriously unpredictable waters,
it is now almost certain to go down in
powerboating history. The event was a
complete success and proved the sceptics
wrong in that many drivers still exist who are
keen to enter and enjoy this type of event.
Although only 22 actually started from
London on June 10
-
it was originally hoped
that three times this number would cross the
line
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six completed the journey by the 24th
without any time penalty. Another four
finished carrying from one to seven time
penalties either for failing to complete a stage
or for changing an engine cylinder block,
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montecarlo
orbust
continued
while one comoetitor
-
Viscount Slim's crew
in the outboard-powered Who Dares
-
was
forced by lack of engine spares to give up the
fight completely with the end just over the
horizon.
The 1969 Don Shead designed, Souter
built HIS, which was re-engined with Ford
Sabre diesels last season, took the major
prize of the Prince Rainier Gold Challenge
Trophy together with f5OOO, plus enough
additional silverware to fill a small van. She
had been superbly driven rn a clear-headed
manner by her three-man crew Mike Bellamy,
Eddie Chater and Jim Brooker. Her total elaosed
time for the course of 71hr. 35min.
56sec. was almost nine hours ahead of the
second craft home. This huge lead, which she
gained some time earlier, was sensibly maintained
and never once were they tempted to
improve it at possible cost of mechanical
breakdown on occasions when their rivals
forged ahead.
Second overall olace was an absolutely
fantastic achievement for the ltalian
speedboat firm of Riva, and, among many
things, did much to prove that the reliability of
an old, well-tried design, hull material, type of
engine and simple transmission can still pay
dividends.
It was taken by the four-year-old Riva
runabout Zoom driven by Gianfranco Rossi,
Renato Mazzolini and Ettore Andenna entered
under Monaco colours. She had ploughed her
way south through sea conditions for which
she was never intended, Her tvvo large
350 hp Riva petrol engines based on GM
blocks were run well below peak performance
and, coupled with conventional shaft transmission,
give her the reliability lacked by
many of her rivals.
More than one pundit shrugged her off as a
joke when she arrived for scrutineering at
Putney prior to the race, while others gave her
little chance of getting beyond Dover, but she
slipped into second place after La Rochelle
and stayed there in an almost unchallengeable
position until the end.
The only real risk to Zoom came in the first
leg to Cowes where her crew suffered badly
from cold, not realising how big the
temperature difference was between the
Mediterranean and British waters; but they
soon overcame this by purchasing wet suits
which they proudly wore all the way to
Monte. She averaged 31 .91 knots for the
total course returning an elapsed time of 80
hr. 1 4min.
Third overall. with a time oI 82hr.24min.
53sec. and an averaqe speed of 31.O0 knots
for the course. was the German entry Miss
WD-4O, driven by Dr Oskar Trost. his wife
Ute and British driver David Lloyd-Jones who
had replaced an original member of the crew
taken ill at La Rochelle.
Miss WD4O is the renamed 32ft. Bertram
Eoss O Nova in which current world
champion Bill Wishnick won the 1970
American Drivers' Chamoionshio. She was
the first craft to finish here using Mercury
Is this Monte-Carlo? Dr Oskar Trost and crew
aim Miss WD-40 through the harhour entrance
for a well earned third place. They were only
I I hours hehind the winner
inboard racing engines coupled to
Speedmaster outdrive legs. Caution on the
part of her driver did much toward getting her
to Monte-Carlo without serious mechanical
trouble. She was seldom driven flat out and
was held back even more after her driver
cracked three ribs at La Coruna when Mrss
WD4O slipped from the slings of a crane with
Oskar aboard. But for this accident the first
and second placings could easily have been
reversed.
One must not overlook the performances of
the other unoenalized finishers: Alan
Betteridge's Nauti-Ford (better known as
Translucentl the 36f1. Kara Kara built by East
Kent Marine that finished f ifth and David
Palengat's Double Century
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all Ford diesel
oowered.
This was David Palengat's first real
powerboat race. Normally he is a keen ocean
racing enthusiast and certainly looked more
fitting to that sport when he turned up at the
early morning briefings. David, dressed
impeccably in reefer jacket and yachting cap
more fitting to a Cowes yacht club than the
wet suited drtvers around him, added a
certain dignity to the occasion, and had he not
carried gallons of sherry aboard, which he
dealt out in large quantities to his fellow
competitors at each stopping place, his time
of 102hr. 38min. 49sec. may well have been
improved upon. He and his crew were not
only first class competitors, they set a fine
example to the field at scrutineering etc. and
obeved the rule-book to the letter.
The greatest loss in the race was the sinking
of Double Century's closest competitor
Spirit of Michaelhouse. She suddenly
- sprang a leak on route for Alicante and her
five man crew which included British
powerboating veterans - Peter Hicks and Ron
Watts were picked up by Double Century
running - just ahead ot her. Spirit of Michaelhouse
was a 31ft. Fairey Huntsman cruiser
and a sistership to Double Century except she
was powered by twin Perkins diesels. She
was running as a South African entry and was
sponsored by many followers on a mileage
completed basis as in a charity walk
and on reaching - the finish stood to collect -
almost fSO,OOO which was to be presented
to Michaelhouse Boys School in South Africa
toward the cost of building a new wing.
The race proved a great success for Ford
diesel power but a complete disaster for
Mercury outboards. Not one boat using these
engines finished without carrying a time
penalty, and those that reached Monte-Carlo
onlv arrived because their crews had often
spent the night rebuilding the power heads
etc. Nearly all used up the host of spare parts
carried in their land support vehicles, and
seldom were these quadruple-engined rrgs
running with all motors functioning.
The event was a mammoth exercise in
organisation and involved not only the
Offshore Powerboat Club led bv John and
Hilary Chitty, but two coach loads of officials
who travelled hundreds of miles. olus the
crew of the sole official rescue boat Titanic
Loo and the men aboard the individual
support teams that most competitors had on
shore. Perhaps most important of all, without
the faith of Barry Bridgland, chairman of Port
Richborough, it would never have got off the
ground. Not only did his company sponsor the
event, but at the Monte-Carlo prizegiving he
promised to give his support to yet another
London /Monte-Carlo in 1976.
Onward from Bilbao
By Bilbao only 12 remained in the race. Tim
Powelf's Canadian Moppie, which with little
effort could have taken first prize. was out
after wiping off shafts. propellers and rudders
when running aground off Selsey near the
Looe Channel in stage one. The little Bartonia
of Nobby Neivens had retired with split fuel
tanks at Ryde on the same leg. Keith
Horseman's Mercury outboard powered
Comfort had just managed to reach Fairey's
before packing it in. The Hon. Edward
Greenall turned back during his run to Brest
with a transmission fault in Gee; no doubt
caused when she hit a large baulk of timber in
the Thames the previous day. Miss Sweden of
Staffan Lindhe retired to Alderney with split
fuel tanks. Richard and Sue Griffith in their
new Tremlett Anything Goes had picked up a
fishing net and damaged her underwater gear
(this boat actually attempted to reach the
Med. by canal later but eventually gave up).
Ford Express of Lady Aitken and the Countess
of Arran virtually fell to pieces after Brest, and
John Caulcutt's little inflatable Monte Surfer's
Flying Tyre was forced out at La Rochelle
when he failed to locate a competent engineer
to cure a fault on one of her 65 hp Mercury
outboards.
Reg Smith in Nordic Rover had also
returned to La Rochelle with engine trouble,
but was to rejoin the race almost one week
later at Marbella following a complete
overhaul to one of his twin Perkins diesels.
Stage 5 and 6: Bilbao
-
La Coruna
-
Oporto
It was about this time that some competitors
began experiencing fuel problems. At first it
was thought the.supply was suspect, but this
was not the case. BP, who had arranged the

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Bottoms up: having
gone to the bow of
Jaffa Orange Juice to
assist her over the
'hump' and onto the
plane, crewman Adrian
Ewen sct{fles back to
the safety of the cockpit,
This outboardpowered
entry was
plagucd by various
mec hanic al ai lment s but
whcn everything held
togethcr she was frequently
first over some
of the stages
,-
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fuel distribution, were doing a marvellous 1ob
and their tankers were never missing from the
jettys when competitors arrived and were so
reliable they were almost taken for granted.
The greatest sufferer from continuous fuel
trouble was Spirit of Michaelhouse, but it was
not until some davs had passed that the fault
was traced to a water-cooling outlet
discharging alongside a fuel tank vent prpe.
The fuel problems of other competitors were
all due to internal problems such as dtrty
tanks that had been shaken up by the rough
r -31*i
Three men in a hurry
to get home: the
Monaco entered Zoom,
a well-worn Riva racer,
4ooms along the Mediterronean
coast on the
way to second place.
The liferaft onthe stern
gives the cralt the look
of an fulwardian motor
car
d
sea and swarf etc. lt was certainly not a fault
in the supply.
Jaffa Orange Juice was first at La Coruna
followed by HTS. Third was the outboard
powered Conserve or Perish of Keith
Schellenberg. This was quite a rough leg
however and the most important victim here
was Ford Persuader (Tirrro Makinen and
Pascoe Watson) which picked up a fishing
net, ripping off her shaft and rudders and
knocking her out for good.
Miss WD-4O lost her engine hatch.
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Nauti-Ford had a turbocharger fail. while HIS
was later forced to change a vee drive and
Kara Kara had to replace her lost foredeck
hatch.
Who Dares failed to finish this leg inside
the time limit, due to loss of compression on
one motor, and this left 10 in the running for
Oporto.
Stage 6 was even rougher. Jack
Cunningham's Ford Speed
-
now a second
class competitor as she failed to complete the
first leg after dropping a valve insert as she
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Neck and neck: Alan
Betteridge's Nauti-
Ford, the racer, dices
with David Palengaf s
Double Century, the
cruiser. The former
finished fourth, the
latter sirth and both
u,ere Ford diesel
powered. Double
Century was ladenwith
gallons of sheny, a
weight penalty which
lessened very rapidly as
the race wore on!
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drove down the Thames
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smashed a large
hole in her starboard bow. Jaffa OrangeJuice
ran across the rocks by clipping Cape
Finisterre, which smashed the bottom ends on
three of her four engines and later cost her the
chance of overall victorY.
Conserve or Perish was another to lose a
bottom end through sheer punishment, while
Nauti-Ford lost her screen and was swamped
up to her crew's waists by a huge Biscay
roller. Although conditions were deplorable
HTS now without the challenge of Jaffa
Orange - Juice arrived almost two hours
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ahead of Miss WD-4O, which was only one
minute in front of the incredible Zoom.
Stage 7 and 8:Oporto-
Cascais
- Portimao
After limping in to Oporto well down the field,
repairs were hastily carried out to Jaffa
Orange Juice and by morning she was ready
to start for Cascais. But within a few miles
she began to suffer from a whole series of
mechanical faults -
as did Who Dares -
which had crept into Oporto over 12 hours
late. Both these craft were forced to run for
Figueira da Foz, about 80 miles north of
Cascais, where they fell farther and farther
back on elapsed time.
Seas were not quite so rough on this one.
And whife Miss WD-4O bounced her
temporary engine hatches off yet agaln,
Cascais was Oskar Trost's victory to be
followed six minutes later by Zoom with HTS
third.
Only nine set off for Portimao
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the last
complete Atlantic leg -
but the seas were
almost flat calm and the sun at last began to
make itself felt. Little trouble was experienced
here and the section was won by Conserve or
Perish. Miss WD-4O arrived 12 minutes later
followed by Zoom with HIS fourth.
Next morning, when drivers arrived for
early morning briefing they found Jaffa
Orange Juice alongside. She had made the
harbour at 4am but at the cost of another
broken crankshaft. However, Who Dares wilh
Viscount Slim's tough SAS crew aboard was
meanwhile underway again 'and by nightfall
had completed 400 miles only stopping briefly
for fuel on the way. When they saw the plight
of Jaffa Orange Juice on arrival at Portimao
they offered her their last spare crankshaft
and it was this unselfish gesture that put
Lawson back in the race.
Stage 9 and 1O: Portimao
-
Marbella
-
firnspig
Little happened on this section which took
competitors past Gibraltar into the Med. The
only real casualty was Conserve or Perish
which lost the use of one of her engines due
to a broken propeller bush
-
probably costing
her the chance of winning the stage prize.
Miss WD-4O again took the honours, this
time by at least 30 minutes over the second
boat home. Zoom, as usual took this slot,
with Conserve or Perish lhitd.
HIS. which finished fourth, now had about
eight hours of elapsed time in hand over
Zoom and, barring accidents, was poised to
collect the orize.
Following a compulsory rest day in
Marbelfa, during which time Jaffa Orange
Juice, Who Dares and
-
to the great surprise
of alf -
Nordic Rover caught up with the
fleet, the stage to Almeria proved that the
Mediterranean can be just as tough as the
Atlantic, particularly when the Levante blows.
Jaffa Orange Juice took the lead and
indeed the stage prize as well, but at the cost
of a huge hole in her upper starboard bow
stove-in by a stray wave. Fordspee4 still
carrying the scar of her engagement with a
wave in Biscav. was forced to slow down
when her patch began leaking under the
strain.
Second to arrive here was Miss WD-4O
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now chasing Zoom's elapsed time difference
Trouble in f mill: Jack Cunningham, looking like
an astrontut walWng oi the moon, htngs on as
his Huntsman 28 Fordspeed wallows in the swell
dwing repairs to the fuel system. She finished
seventh overall, but was dogged by continaus fuel
starvation
while Conserve or Perish came third. The
- best Zoom could do was to finish seventh
almost one hour behind Jaffa Orange Juice.
Stage 1 1 and 12: Almeria
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This section was later reported by drivers to
be one of the roughest so far and it was
toward the end of the course that Spirit of
Michaelhouse sank. Conserve or Perish fell
back as the rough going loosened one of her
motors, while Oskar Trost began suffering
again from the effects of his strained ribs
although he still managed to finish third.
The only other problem
-
apart from the
rough seas which none could escape
-
was
when HIS picked up a rope round her
propeller eight miles west of Alicante, but she
stilf managed to finish second overall to Jaffa
Orange Juice.
The run to Barcelona was flat calm and the
only disappointed here must have been those
aboard Conserve or Perish. She lost power on
two of her outboards and was led by the
official race helicooter and rescue boat Titanic
Too to a small group of islands called lsle
Columbretes. halfwav between the mainland
Kara Kara, another of the mpenali4edfinislurs,
which finished fifth. Her foredeck hatch was
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fine: Conserve or
Perish azd her crew
disappear in spray as
she hits a big wave in
the Bay of Biscay.
Easily the wettest boat
in the race, she was
powered by fow
Mercwy ourboards
and Ma.jorca, where temporary repairs were
made. Her engines failed yet again and
although she was towed by Titanic Too at
over 2O knots with the aid of her own remaining
power, she failed to finish within the
time limit and was relegated to a third
class competitor.
Jaffa Orange Juice again crossed the line in
first position followed bv Miss WD-4O and
Zoom almost one hour later.
Stage 13 and 14: Barcelona
- La Grand Motte -
Monte-Carlo
The leg to La Grand Motte across the Gulf of
Laons was perhaps the roughest of the whole
voyage. Viscount Slim's crew in Who Dares
blew an engine just after the start and
returned to Barcelona, where they joined
Conserve or Perish among a mountain of
Mercury bits and pieces. Both craft later
started, Conserve or Perish making La Grand
Motte. but Who Dares finished her race for
good in Puerto De Selvas, 10 miles inside
Spain.
Several tried to make the direct crossing of
the Gulf but all gave up the attempt because
of the huge seas, including HIS which used
too much fuel and was forced to enter La
Nouvelle 70 miles to the west to top up her
tanks. Jaffa Orange Juice was again first this
time followed bv Zoom and Miss WD-4O.
The final section was something of an
anti-climax. The sea was flat calm after the
first few miles or so and the weather very hot
indeed, but even so, Conserve or Perish still
suffered engine trouble and went into Port
Beu for hurried reoairs.
HIS led the section most of the way but
Jaffa Orange Jutce rooK over the lead just
west of Cannes and held it to the end, so
winning all the Mediterranean legs after
rejoining the race at Marbella.
HIS took second place with Miss WD-4O
third.
Glars No. Name
[ {c) 858
71hr. 3Smrn. 56sec
1 st Class | |
1 st Class ll (C)
| 18
8ohr. 14min.
t5
82hr. 24min. 53sec.
lr (c) 143
atcnr, Jumtn. I Jsec.
il 261
93hr. 58min.23sec.
ll (c) 200
1 O2hr. 38min. 49sec
il (c) 909
89hr. 14min. 44sec.
il56
76hr. 37min. 22sec.
i 700
iOhr. 05min. O9sec.
(c)
7-to
)hr. 38min. 25sec.
RESULTS and PRIZES
(in elapsed time order)
Grew Builder Engine(sl Finishing
catogory
d,J Eellamy/Chater/Brooker Souter
Prince Rainier Gold Challenge Cup and f 5O0O plus Rolex Submariner Gold Watch
Trophy and f2OO 1 st Unrestricted diesel Trophy and C2OO, I st Restricted diesel Trophy and f2OO
Trophy and f 2OO l st All B ritish Trophy and f 200 1 st Wooden Hutt Trophy
Zoom Rossi/Mazzolini/Andenna Riva
East Kent Trophy and f2O0O. 1 st Class I Trophy and f20O 1 st Non- B ritish Trophy and f 1 5O
Miss WD-4O
Dr TrosVMrs TrosVLloyd-Jones Bertram
3rd overall Port Richborough Trophy and f 1 500. 2nd Class I Trophy and C 1 5O
Concours d'Elegance Class 1 . The Wilkinson Sword Troph ies. 1 st G R P H u ll, The Scado
Trophy and f 1 OO. Ladies Prize, The Kelvin Hughes Trophy and f250
Nauti-Ford Betteridge/FrosVAshton Senior Marine
4th Overall Powerboat &WatercportTtophy and f 50O. 2nd Class llTrophy and f 150
2nd Class ll (C) Trophy and C1 5O
Kara Kara Jephcott/Glover/Vivian Easr Kent Marine
Sth Overall Hilton Transport Services Troohv and f25O. 3rd Class ll Edward Fattorini
Trophy and f100
7th CIass Competitor
(six stages not completed)
S m ith/S cott- G reen/Plum b
Ford Sabre (2)
Riva 350hp (2)
Mercruiser 482 (2)
Ford Sabre (2)
Ford Sabre (2)
Double Century
Palengat/Pearce/Pea rce
Fairey Marine
Ford Mermaid 1st
6th Overall. VDO Sumlog Trophy & Goads (Chandlers) Trophy and f 1OO. 3rd Class ll (C)
Charles Cooper Trophy and f 1 OO. 1 st National Cruiser, Aga Khan's Trophy and f250.
Concours d'Elegance Class ll The Goodenough Awards. Best All-rounder Trophy and f250.
fhe remaining four finishers all carried time penalties
2nd Glass Compotitol
(One stage not completed)
Fordspeed Cunningham/Bakewell/Coombes Fairey Marine Ford Sabre 2nd Cl
7th Overall. 2nd National CruiserTrophy and f1 75
3rd Class Competitor
(two stages not completed)
Conserve or Perish Schellenberg/B u llen/B lackford Pegasus
8th Overall. First Outboard South Western Marine Factors Trophy and f 2OO
4th Class Compotitor
(three stages not completed)
Jaffa Orange Juice
9th Overall
Nordic Rover
Lawson/Ewen/Brightman
Souter
R oya l/B ruks
1 Oth Overall 3rd National Cruiser Thomas Nelson Yacht Agency Trophy and f 1 OO
Mercury 14OO (4)
Mercury 14OO (4)
Perkins 1 75hp (2)
1sl
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1st
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3rd Cl
4th Cl
7th Cl